'extensive coding sessions' ... with your thumbs? No thanks.

The company's website is currently collecting email signups for early-bird pricing. Pricing has not been announced. Neither have display resolution, exact dimensions, weight, or the availability of expansion ports.

So all we know is that some company wants to sell something at some point in the future.

Wow, coding on the worst physical topology/topography for the kind of input you need to perform.

A programmer needs to type fast, navigate the cursor rapidly and with easily attained precision, and needs the information displayed on a large screen so that they don’t go blind working on the code. This machine is a friggin nightmare.

This article feels like it was written by ai and this product, while cute, is almost completely useless.

A portable keyboard and a Steamdeck are a better choice.

This way I can play Halo while deploying or when the Sales Dude complains about the website.

I guarantee this will cost more and be less hackable than the offerings from ClockworkPi

It would probably make a good terminal if it had an RS-232 serial port. The CM5 would be overkill for that. A Pi Zero would be sufficient and a lot less power hungry.

There's no way I'm going to be doing much typing on that tiny keyboard though.

Should have made it foldable. Like early mobile phones....

It looks like a uConsole

Yeah hell naw lol. I need an actual keyboard.

What is this, a portable workstation for ants?

Modern 14" Thinkpads are already the golden balance of size and portability imo. I alrrady "actually carry" my laptop with me, thank you

If anyone is looking for a something like this that they can buy today for a reasonable price, check out the GPD Micro PC 2.

You mean like uConsole?

That thing is sexy and I have a romanticized view of cyberdeck-like devices, but what do people who do this kind of work actually need and use? As cool as this type of device is, are they actually useful?

What I need is just a de-googled phone with hardware keyboard.

Idk why people are so into the trackpoint. I could never get the hang of it.

WTF is going on with the symbols above the number keys?

Ahh, NM, that entire image is AI slop.

Real curious about the battery life. All of Raspberry Pi's offerings are notoriously power inefficient; it's a shame there's no big competitor out there pushing for that.

Sorry but you will never get me to enjoy writing or even reading code on a tiny display.

I don't understand this form factor. It's too small for any serious work, both in terms of screen size and typing, and it's too big to fit in your pocket. So you might as well carry a small laptop around, since it would actually be usable. Feels like a novelty that is just meant to satisfy a cyberpunk aesthetic, if you've got the money to burn on something that you'll probably only use a few times, or occasionally at best.

Wasn't this the pitch for the Pilet? Only they originally targeted rpi5 only to switch after significant delays to the cm5, which pissed everybody off that already bought one.