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Doesn't an external battery make something designed to be small kinda pointless? I wonder what kind of ultra portable could be made that was a simple unix box
by ivankirigin 19y ago
Doesn't an external battery make something designed to be small kinda pointless?
I wonder what kind of ultra portable could be made that was a simple unix box with a black & white display and no graphics. It would need to have cell-network access, which is another thing lots of people are upset that the Air doesn't have.
Apple basically told everyone: we fit it in an iphone, but we couldn't fit it in something 10 times the size.
- yummyfajitas 19y agoIt's already been built (http://laptop.org/ http://laptop.org/), except for cell network access. They also have minimal color and a small amount of graphics. You can even power it with a hand crank. As soon as they build one with a bigger keyboard, that's my new machine.
- ivankirigin 19y agoActually, the XO is nothing like what I'm talking about. The screen is too small, it has color, the keyboard is too small, mesh networking is too new to be sold as a consumer product, and it is designed for 3rd world non-hacker children. They are a demographic as close to me as hiphop hacker single moms.
- webwright 19y agoI'm thinking you're starting to be obsessed with the hiphop hacker single mom niche, Ivan. :-)
- ivankirigin 19y agoI'm glad you caught that
- rms 19y agoThe XO has a really innovative dual mode screen with a super high DPI black and white screen with no backlight.
- ivankirigin 19y agoYou could probably get an even better DPI daylight readable screen if you only allow for 2 colors. No dual mode. There are many, many cool things in the XO. Too much for what I'm talking about.