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Obviously he can build want he wants to the specifications he wants and even call it what he wants but if the purpose was to not build a laptop because he doesn
by hellotomyrars 4y ago
Obviously he can build want he wants to the specifications he wants and even call it what he wants but if the purpose was to not build a laptop because he doesn’t like the form factor of a laptop why call it a laptop? It just doesn’t make sense.
- yccs27 4y agoI can understand it insofar that my first association with the word "laptop" is the portable computer with integrated keyboard that mostly sits on my desk. This build isn't too far from that.
- hellotomyrars 4y agoI suppose I can understand it from the perspective, and that is probably the majority of the time a laptop is in use, but I also associate a laptop with a self contained unit that has all the required input devices and requires no additional setup to be usable. Flip it open on a bed, anywhere, in a second, including your lap. I have a ton of general purpose computers that can be set up on a desk but are otherwise wildly impractical some place like an airplane, or in any kind of moving vehicle. It is kind of why I still am married to having a traditional laptop instead of just using my iPad with a keyboard case for example. It just gets more fiddly. I’d take my steam deck with me to somewhere I’d be able to set up with for non-gaming use but I’d never try to use it as a regular computer on a plane or even in a coffee shop killing time between appointments or whatever. We don’t do portables/luggable as terminology anymore but that is where it breaks for me. I appreciate you offering that perspective though.
- SiempreViernes 4y agoYeah, I find it odd how many people think "usable while travelling" is not an important feature of a laptop.