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Some of us (I assume OP is one of them) think that since your screen won't be large anyway, there is little point to having a screen bigger than your preferred
by Arnt 8y ago
Some of us (I assume OP is one of them) think that since your screen won't be large anyway, there is little point to having a screen bigger than your preferred keyboard size.
And since your battery won't be large enough to support compiling LLVM in reasonable time anyway, it's better to just get used to do CPU-heavy stuff by ssh-ing to a rackmount somewhere use the laptop for terminal-ish tasks.
- stephenr 8y agoIf your goal is a portable SSH client, even an original iPad mini with a bluetooth keyboard would be a better option than this thing.
- kingofhdds 8y agoDid you read the text? The goal is not a portable SSH client, but a sort of traveling admin's Swiss army knife device, hence relatively small size (but large enough to host a keyboard), and a lot of ports. Isn't it obvious that iPad cannot conform to the requirements?
- stephenr 8y agoDid you read the post I replied to? > And since your battery won't be large enough to support compiling LLVM in reasonable time anyway, it's better to just get used to do CPU-heavy stuff by ssh-ing to a rackmount somewhere use the laptop for terminal-ish tasks.
- lazyasciiart 8y agoNothing about that comment says anything to support your arbitrary narrowing of the device purpose.
- stephenr 8y agoWell, it does, and my comment does start with IF your goal is.... If your goal IS NOT that, then clearly what I suggested isn't going to be applicable is it?
- lazyasciiart 8y agoIndeed, it did seem totally inapplicable to the thread.
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- Arnt 8y agoI wrote that. And the reason that I didn't go into connectivity/port issues is that they have almost nothing to do with battery lifetime. I saw no reason to digress into those topics.
- dalore 8y agouhnn no? Where is the serial ports etc
- stephenr 8y agoWhat is the purpose of a serial port, If your goal is a portable SSH client?
- piqufoh 8y agoPlenty of enterprise grade hardware (I'm looking at Cisco) provide telnet access over a serial interface - which is dead handy when the thing is running but stops responding to SSH connections.
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- PascLeRasc 8y agoI've been using iSH on the iPhone for my portable SSH client, it works pretty great for server maintenance even with the on-screen keyboard. https://github.com/tbodt/ish https://github.com/tbodt/ish
- throwanem 8y agoI use Prompt these days, but iSSH's Remote Desktop client was super useful back when I was doing admin work and didn't have the luxury of never needing to work on a Windows server! As I recall, I also used its X server for remote display from an OpenGenera instance running on a Tru64 VM, back when I was still indulging my hobby for Lisp system archaeology, and network problems were stopping me displaying to the VM host's X server. Good times...
- bigbugbag 8y agoiphone lacks vital hardware, it has no keyboard. lacking a keyboard is abysmal productivity vs being able to type and do key combinations. try using stuff like vim/emacs or byobu/screen on an iphone, try to select and middle click to copy/paste, or any of the key combination we use all the time in the shell. no keyboard = no go.
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- hinkley 8y agoBut whose preferred keyboard size is this design? I think the old Fujitsu Lifebooks with the ~16:9 screen size and the nearly full sized keys is probably about the size you want on one of these things.
- Arnt 8y agoNot quite my cup of tea, but I've watched people reach for their Psion PDAs all the time, even when they had large keyboards within reach. Evidently some people can become friends with some very small keyboards.
- jachee 8y agoIf I'm standing in front of a rack, plugged into another box—which is the primary purpose of this little guy—I'm gonna be holding it with one hand and typing with the other. In that scenario, I'd rather have a keyboard of this size than a full-size one.
- panda88888 8y agoI think the Sony VAIO P series would be a great admin notebook. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Vaio_P_series https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Vaio_P_series
- SamReidHughes 8y agoThey really do fit in a jeans pocket. It was really nice to take on vacation as an emergency computer. I wound up printing a proof of car insurance document from it. It had a problem with the mouse pointer cable getting loose though.