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How many times do we have to watch this exact kickstarter project fail to deliver? There have been countless made for phones, raspberry pis, and tablets. Maybe

by soared 10y ago

How many times do we have to watch this exact kickstarter project fail to deliver? There have been countless made for phones, raspberry pis, and tablets. Maybe they'll ship, but the ux is trash especially considering you can get a chromebook for $100 more. What is the actual benefit of this device? Instead of toting around a chromebook, you tote around the shell of a chromebook? My laptop is never 'out of sync' that problem was fixed years ago. IF I wanted laptop productivity I'd... use a laptop?

kajecounterhack 10y ago
Can you link? I'm interested in what previous attempts look like and don't follow kickstarter much. I imagine as phones get faster & better this setup continues to work, vs chromebook is forever slow. In the future if we could attach USB peripherals and if we could have a high-res (2k / retina) LCD it'd be awesome. I have a little $40 ipad retina LCD I use with a displayport driver chip and I power it via a $20 usb battery pack, but it's for use with full computers only, not android.
aj7 10y ago
Clearly you don't tote around anything. (But the phone.) What if your main cpu, os, and memory were always with you? An alter cocker like me is not going to shlep a laptop on a plane. And there are as many of me as you.
- jszymborski 10y ago
  That's awfully bad security hygiene. I would never plug my phone into a public laptop shell w/o assuming I was being keylogged and MITM'd. Next we'll be using free wifi at airports w/o VPNs! Thick of the insanity.
chaostheory 10y ago
I'm not really sure why people keep thinking that you're supposed to lug this around. If I were to get this, I would only use it at home when a keyboard and bigger screen would be nice; or I would buy one for the office and the house. imo the whole point of this is so you wouldn't have to carry anything huge anymore.
- dpark 10y ago
  Then why a laptop form factor? Laptops exist to be lugged around.
  - mikestew 10y ago
    If I'm going to park one at home and at the office, it's going to have to be better than what $99 buys you. Hell, my desk keyboard alone costs more than that. So I compromise with that teensy eensy screen and (what I have to guess to be...) a mediocre-at-best keyboard so that I ... don't have to carry it around? Why not a docking station into which I can plug whatever screen and keyboard I desire? I dunno, I don't care to come across as a hater, but this looks like one of those things that is cool at first glance with all kinds of possible use cases, but you buy it, reality kicks in, and it gathers dust after a month.
    - chaostheory 10y ago
      I don't disagree with your desire for better quality, but as of this moment; I'm not aware of any competing products that allow your phone to transform into a laptop. The only one I was aware of is a Motorola product from 2-3 years back. If there is one, feel free to link to it. Your complaint sounds a lot like the complaints that people made when the iPhone first came out: nitpicking the specs and disregarding the paradigm shift that it brings to the table.
      - dpark 10y ago
        This isn't a paradigm shift. This is dock for your phone. It's literally the same paradigm as a laptop dock. You plug in your device and get to use it with a bigger screen and keyboard. That's all. I've been proven wrong before, so it could certainly happen again, but I just cannot see this being a widely-desired product. How large is the set of people who want a tiny, low-powered laptop that is useless without a phone tethered to it? This is a geek fantasy, where we imagine that having a single computing device is better somehow, despite there being no meaningful scenarios that this enables.

by soared 10y ago

kajecounterhack 10y ago

Can you link? I'm interested in what previous attempts look like and don't follow kickstarter much. I imagine as phones get faster & better this setup continues to work, vs chromebook is forever slow. In the future if we could attach USB peripherals and if we could have a high-res (2k / retina) LCD it'd be awesome. I have a little $40 ipad retina LCD I use with a displayport driver chip and I power it via a $20 usb battery pack, but it's for use with full computers only, not android.

aj7 10y ago

Clearly you don't tote around anything. (But the phone.) What if your main cpu, os, and memory were always with you? An alter cocker like me is not going to shlep a laptop on a plane. And there are as many of me as you.

jszymborski 10y ago
That's awfully bad security hygiene. I would never plug my phone into a public laptop shell w/o assuming I was being keylogged and MITM'd. Next we'll be using free wifi at airports w/o VPNs! Thick of the insanity.

chaostheory 10y ago

I'm not really sure why people keep thinking that you're supposed to lug this around. If I were to get this, I would only use it at home when a keyboard and bigger screen would be nice; or I would buy one for the office and the house. imo the whole point of this is so you wouldn't have to carry anything huge anymore.

dpark 10y ago
Then why a laptop form factor? Laptops exist to be lugged around.
- mikestew 10y ago
  If I'm going to park one at home and at the office, it's going to have to be better than what $99 buys you. Hell, my desk keyboard alone costs more than that. So I compromise with that teensy eensy screen and (what I have to guess to be...) a mediocre-at-best keyboard so that I ... don't have to carry it around? Why not a docking station into which I can plug whatever screen and keyboard I desire? I dunno, I don't care to come across as a hater, but this looks like one of those things that is cool at first glance with all kinds of possible use cases, but you buy it, reality kicks in, and it gathers dust after a month.
  - chaostheory 10y ago
    I don't disagree with your desire for better quality, but as of this moment; I'm not aware of any competing products that allow your phone to transform into a laptop. The only one I was aware of is a Motorola product from 2-3 years back. If there is one, feel free to link to it. Your complaint sounds a lot like the complaints that people made when the iPhone first came out: nitpicking the specs and disregarding the paradigm shift that it brings to the table.
    - dpark 10y ago
      This isn't a paradigm shift. This is dock for your phone. It's literally the same paradigm as a laptop dock. You plug in your device and get to use it with a bigger screen and keyboard. That's all. I've been proven wrong before, so it could certainly happen again, but I just cannot see this being a widely-desired product. How large is the set of people who want a tiny, low-powered laptop that is useless without a phone tethered to it? This is a geek fantasy, where we imagine that having a single computing device is better somehow, despite there being no meaningful scenarios that this enables.