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There is quite a difference in size there! Find me a 7 inch laptop with phone battery life and pocket availabilty.
by hungryforcodes 3y ago
There is quite a difference in size there! Find me a 7 inch laptop with phone battery life and pocket availabilty.
- jchw 3y agoThe closest option is probably the GPD MicroPC. It's 6", but pretty damn close to the ideal of a truly tiny PC. I think they're making a successor to this finally, dunno what the status is. https://www.gpd.hk/gpdmicropc https://www.gpd.hk/gpdmicropc
- hungryforcodes 3y agoThanks for the link. It looks pretty cool. Form fact wise it looks to be competitive with an Android phone and a portable keyboard. So it's not clear immediately which is better. I use termux daily, and you can stand up pretty much anything including a production grade PostgresDB. It's not a toy.
- Chris660 3y agoAs an ex Psion 5 user, I've often been tempted by the devices from Planet Computers: https://store.planetcom.co.uk/products/gemini-pda-1 https://store.planetcom.co.uk/products/gemini-pda-1
- pxc 3y agoThe keyboards on them are excellent, but the software/firmware stories for their devices are awful. Frozen kernels due to proprietary blobs, and support for running full Linux distros is limited and lags by months to years. And they're expensive as hell. But they keyboards are good enough that I'd still kinda like to try the Astro Slide 5G. I just don't want to order one only to wait years for it to arrive.
- int_19h 3y agoAs an owner of Cosmo, I can confirm all of the above. The form factor is great and the keyboard is amazing, but the software story kills it all dead in the water. I wish someone could just do a dedicated Linux machine like that.