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Laptop-like CrowView Note ready to work with Pi, phones and mini-PCs
- sitkack 2y agoI have seen devices just like this (keyboard, display, battery) on aliexpress. https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256807367187700.html https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256807367187700.html https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256803000890517.html https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256803000890517.html
- krasin 2y agoGood point. In addition to being available right now, the Aliexpress version has a better battery (10000 mAh vs 5000 mAh on Kickstarter).
- fippi 2y agoAnd the 360 degree hinge is a big selling point for me! I'm glad i didn't pull the plug when i saw the KS go live last week. It's a great product but hard to justify spending more money for similar/worse functionality
- jacknews 2y agoThat second one seems to have a screen twice as high as the keyboard is deep, so when you fold it, the k/b only covers half the screen? That's just weird. I'd like to see a short-wide-screen form-factor, where the folded device is just the size of the keyboard. And a synaptic trackpoint as on thinkpads.
- kristianp 2y agoThe kickstarter link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/elecrow/crowview-note-empowering-your-device-as-a-laptop https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/elecrow/crowview-note-e...
- trte9343r4 2y agoThis seems to have full support for Raspberry Pi. - Type-C port supports 5V/5A PD (Pi does not comply with PD specs) - keyboard and trackpad over USB-A - Micro HDMI input
- mysteria 2y agoThis thing might also be usable in the datacenter as a KVM console that can sit in a rack shelf or be carried around by technicians. It's certainly more compact than the typical monitor and keyboard on a rolling cart.
- kristianp 2y agoDon't people already have their laptop if they're planning on bringing a device with a screen+keyboard? I can see it as useful for a dedicated raspberry-pi screen and keyboard, but the adapter board looks easily broken if you move around with it. I'm excited to see the row is keys on the right with Home, pgup, pgdn and End. Very useful for someone who spent their early computing years on non-gimped keyboards. I had a laptop with that layout in about 2009, was easy to adapt to.
- eigenspace 2y agoNot everyone owns a laptop, nor do they really see a need for one very often. Phones and other devices are plenty powerful these days for most tasks most people are doing on laptops. The input format is the only reason most people own them.
- kristianp 2y agoYou're right, there are places where the smartphone is the only compute device in the home. Would this be too expensive for those people though? I'm thinking people from Myanmar for example.
- bigiain 2y agoI suspect vanishingly few of the "I don't own a laptop(/desktop), I just use my phone" also own (or want) Raspberry Pis...
- eigenspace 2y agoThis device doesnt require a raspberry pi, that’s just an option. It is compatible with several phone “desktop mode”s.
- eigenspace 2y agoI came very close to buying a similar device recently (Nexdock), but ultimately decided against it. I mostly work from home on my desktop computer, and only very occasionally need a portable computer. Since I own a SteamDeck with a plenty strong CPU, lots of storage and a fully functional Linux environment, it felt like such a silly waste to need to buy a whole laptop, when all I really wanted was the keyboard, trackpad, and screen. Ultimately decided against it though, and got a Framework 13 laptop instead. Less fuss to use it rather than fiddling around with connectors and lugging two devices around in tandem. I also hope that Framework's modular approach means that this laptop won't have been a wasteful purchase and I can keep it as a 'laptop of Theseus' for the next decade or so.
- Bluestein 2y ago> 'laptop of Theseus' Heh :) At what point does it cease to be the same laptop and becomes something else?
- hagbard_c 2y ago> At what point does it cease to be the same laptop and becomes something else? Once you replace the last screw (there are no nails in Framework laptops).
- SahAssar 2y agoWhat makes the last screw the identity? Why not the second last screw? What if you put in the second last screw after you removed the last? What if I put in a nail? Maybe nail some cork to it to make it float?
- Bluestein 2y ago> What if I put in a nail? Seriously, for thought: Will we ever (if ever) have electronics, screens ... that you can actually drive a nail through (remaining functional, to whatever degree, of course ...)
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- wslh 2y agoWith all due respect to hardware startups and the complexity of running them: why don't they create another form-factor to put your mobile phone, Pi or other devices? The frustrated industrial designer in me says that those devices should take an space inside the CrowView, not at the sides.
- kunjanshah 2y agoPalm Foleo would like a word. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_Foleo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_Foleo
- bigiain 2y agoI had a Pi-Top for a while: https://www.open-electronics.org/pi-top-the-all-new-modular-raspberry-pi-laptop/ https://www.open-electronics.org/pi-top-the-all-new-modular-... I gave it to a junior dev who worked for me, figuring I'd buy myself another one to replace it. I never did, presumably because it wasn't actually as useful as I'd imagined it'd be when I first impulse-bought it. (It was also really quite crazily built. It worked fine, but it felt like a really cheap toy, instead of a tool. A MacBook and a Pi in a decent case is what I use instead these days.)
- nhggfu 2y agobattery runs for "2 hours" yea no thanks
- deafpolygon 2y agoSo, a portable crash cart?