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Let me add this to my list - Has any of these made it ever into the hands of customers? I believe the only device that actually came out is the Cosmo Communicat

Let me add this to my list - Has any of these made it ever into the hands of customers? I believe the only device that actually came out is the Cosmo Communicator (https://www.www3.planetcom.co.uk/cosmo-communicator https://www.www3.planetcom.co.uk/cosmo-communicator) There's also Lisperati1000 - https://www.reddit.com/r/cyberDeck/comments/lbu4di/my_shiny_new_lisperati1000_lisp_programming/ https://www.reddit.com/r/cyberDeck/comments/lbu4di/my_shiny_... Devterm - https://www.clockworkpi.com/devterm https://www.clockworkpi.com/devterm Popcorn Pocket - https://pocket.popcorncomputer.com/ https://pocket.popcorncomputer.com/ Teenyserv - https://expanscape.com/teenyserv/the-teenyserv-prototypes/ https://expanscape.com/teenyserv/the-teenyserv-prototypes/

heliostatic 4y ago
I've got a Devterm, so it has shipped to at least some folks. Took about a year?
kop316 4y ago
While this device has yet to be released, their full size laptop, the MNT Reform, is available: https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt Personally, the fact that they have released a HW device already gives me a lot more confidence that this will succeed.
soapdog 4y ago
They larger laptop, MNT Reform, has been shipping for a while. Some friends of mine have it and I've met Lukas and played with a prototype at Fosdem long time ago. It is a real thing and it is a beauty. I'm saving for one.
Kajayacht 4y ago
There's the OpenPandora (https://www.openpandora.org/ https://www.openpandora.org/) that did make it into hands of customers. If you look around Youtube and such, everyone seemed highly satisfied with it, but as a owner myself, it kinda sucked. By the time it came out, it was underpowered, it never was able to run any decent web browser at an acceptable level. It's focus was gaming and emulation, but even then it wasn't any better than a modded PSP (I would say in terms of software, it was worse). My Pandora had numerous manufacturing defects and the way to resolve it was "post in the user forums" where people would reply "Don't worry about it, it's a purely open-sourced handheld! You could just 3D print a new L button!" And what pissed me off to no end, people would overclock the CPU over 40% to get stuff to run at acceptable speeds, and then in the same breath say that "it's amazing, 10 hour battery!" Not if you overclock the thing. I still get excited when I see these new ultra-portable computers, but then I remember the Pandora and quickly tell myself not to waste my money.
rcarmo 4y ago
I've been hoping that the Lisperati becomes a real product soon. At least in kit form, since I'd rather have some of the kinks of sourcing and packing stuff into the case sorted for me.
NoraCodes 4y ago
I have the DevTerm, it's pretty neat.
minimalist 4y ago
It's too bad that it took a long time for linux support for the cosmo communicator to not be an absolute dog and good luck porting to anything other than their debian flavor. Also good luck finding replacement parts if anything breaks! That's the biggest problem IMO and one that I feel most happy with MNT, Pine64, and Purism (availability of replacement parts)
fsflover 4y ago
You forgot two devices which are shipping: https://forums.puri.sm/t/comparing-specs-of-upcoming-linux-phones/6827 https://forums.puri.sm/t/comparing-specs-of-upcoming-linux-p....
guenthert 4y ago
I can neither see clockwork's nor platecom's website -- they demand that I upgrade my Chrome browser (which I can't -- Chromebook Pixel here). Why would they restrict their market? Apple.com happily shows me their content ...

heliostatic 4y ago

I've got a Devterm, so it has shipped to at least some folks. Took about a year?

kop316 4y ago

While this device has yet to be released, their full size laptop, the MNT Reform, is available: https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt Personally, the fact that they have released a HW device already gives me a lot more confidence that this will succeed.

soapdog 4y ago

They larger laptop, MNT Reform, has been shipping for a while. Some friends of mine have it and I've met Lukas and played with a prototype at Fosdem long time ago. It is a real thing and it is a beauty. I'm saving for one.

Kajayacht 4y ago

There's the OpenPandora (https://www.openpandora.org/ https://www.openpandora.org/) that did make it into hands of customers. If you look around Youtube and such, everyone seemed highly satisfied with it, but as a owner myself, it kinda sucked. By the time it came out, it was underpowered, it never was able to run any decent web browser at an acceptable level. It's focus was gaming and emulation, but even then it wasn't any better than a modded PSP (I would say in terms of software, it was worse). My Pandora had numerous manufacturing defects and the way to resolve it was "post in the user forums" where people would reply "Don't worry about it, it's a purely open-sourced handheld! You could just 3D print a new L button!" And what pissed me off to no end, people would overclock the CPU over 40% to get stuff to run at acceptable speeds, and then in the same breath say that "it's amazing, 10 hour battery!" Not if you overclock the thing. I still get excited when I see these new ultra-portable computers, but then I remember the Pandora and quickly tell myself not to waste my money.

rcarmo 4y ago

I've been hoping that the Lisperati becomes a real product soon. At least in kit form, since I'd rather have some of the kinks of sourcing and packing stuff into the case sorted for me.

NoraCodes 4y ago

I have the DevTerm, it's pretty neat.

minimalist 4y ago

It's too bad that it took a long time for linux support for the cosmo communicator to not be an absolute dog and good luck porting to anything other than their debian flavor. Also good luck finding replacement parts if anything breaks! That's the biggest problem IMO and one that I feel most happy with MNT, Pine64, and Purism (availability of replacement parts)

fsflover 4y ago

You forgot two devices which are shipping: https://forums.puri.sm/t/comparing-specs-of-upcoming-linux-phones/6827 https://forums.puri.sm/t/comparing-specs-of-upcoming-linux-p....

guenthert 4y ago

I can neither see clockwork's nor platecom's website -- they demand that I upgrade my Chrome browser (which I can't -- Chromebook Pixel here). Why would they restrict their market? Apple.com happily shows me their content ...