TRS80. We've come full circle.
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I was thinking raspberry pi 400/500 but you're right it goes back much farther. Both need a built in pointing device though.
Or VIC-20 or ZX Spectrum or ...
Timex Sinclairs (1000 and 2068), Magnavox Odyssey
Or Commodore 64
Or that rasberry pi in a keyboard thing
Won't most prefer a Laptop?
And why keep the keyboard at all?
Shared workspaces already have those.
l see only disadvantages compared to just a tiny portable mini-PC, e.g. the exposed keys as single point of failure.
Yeah what's wrong with small pc cases too? My mom had one that was a cube of like 15-20cm per side at work 15 years ago, I'm sure they can make them much smaller now. That would probably be more convenient to maintain, and at least you won't have to change your keyboard if the PC is broken or vice versa
that was like 15-20cm³
I doubt that as that would be a cube of just 2.5cm side length, did you perhaps mean 15cm per side?
We have a Mini-PC mounted to the back of the TV, it is just 12x12x4 cm³.
Great device!
Uh, yeah, I meant 15-20cm per side. Shouldn't have wrote that before my coffee I guess
Or we could just keep using laptops that already have the monitor and mouse included.
And can easily be connected to monitors, keyboards, mice by one cable with a dock. This thing is literally a laptop with no screen...
On a desk a mouse is nice. On a laptop (if you literally use it on your lap, which some of us do), you really want the mouse or trackpad to be built into the keyboard, which is why so many keyboard pc's suck. I'm looking at you, Raspberry Pi 400/500.
On one hand the idea itself is old and bad, on the other hand hotdesks were invented by literal satan minions. Is there something good about this thing?
Yea: You don't have to worry about broken screens. Though those coffee spills might get pricey...
Only Amiga makes it possible
Having a small PC separate from a keyboard isn't much work to carry
you can put both in a single carrying case. And it gives you a lot more flexibility than combining the two in terms of space and heat and such.
The laptop
display+keyboard/trackpad+guts
makes sense because you can use it at places that aren't a desk. But if you're going to require use of a desk anyway, why forego the benefits of a separate PC and keyboard?
I'd say because many laptops have just fine keyboards and carrying a laptop and maybe + mouse is more convenient than arbitrary box + keyboard + mouse + monitor if there isn't already one...
This product is trash from the concept up.