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Imagine a battery-powered C64-like device (ie "all in one", the motherboard just below the keyboard) with a tiny LCD screen (no bigger than your smartphone) and

by guylhem 14y ago

Imagine a battery-powered C64-like device (ie "all in one", the motherboard just below the keyboard) with a tiny LCD screen (no bigger than your smartphone) and a real-sized keyboard. Now imagine doing RDP or VNC to "display" the screen on your tablet or your phone - there are browser-side VNC clients that are easy to use, you wouldn't even have to install a VNC client. Unless you want to playback movies, IMHO there is no need for an HDMI input No big LCD = longer runtime (or throw in an eink display - framerate is not that important). I would be willing pay a premium if it also included a breadboard connecting to the various internal ports. That would be a real hacky laptop, a workbench for geeks.

lsc 14y ago
In early highschool, I carried around one of these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Radio_Shack_TRS-80_Model_100.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Radio_Shack_TRS-80_Model_1... Which seems to me like the best form factor you can have if you can't have a flip-up monitor.
- guylhem 14y ago
  Yes, that's exactly the point! Just replace the logo by a breadboard internally linked to the various I/Os and I'm sold!!
  - lsc 14y ago
    http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2008/7/27/162751/063 http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2008/7/27/162751/063 I don't know if he ever finished.
marssaxman 14y ago
You use computers very differently than I do! What a lot of workarounds just to get a normal laptop experience.