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I'd say the (promised) ability to be used both as a phone _and_ a desktop computer, depending on what you plug into it. Sounds pretty good to me: take your Andr

I'd say the (promised) ability to be used both as a phone _and_ a desktop computer, depending on what you plug into it. Sounds pretty good to me: take your Android-ish phone (of reasonable size and weight) anywhere, connect it to a full-size keyboard and screen - voila, a full-featured, not-underpowered-like-a-netbook computer running Ubuntu! I have yet to see this in any other device on the market; this alone would be sufficient for me.

ixacto 13y ago
Not under powered, not too sure about that. The Ubuntu website says 'Fastest multi-core CPU, 4GB RAM, 128GB storage', ok good...but there is no way that it will even be as fast as a quad-core desktop i7 processor when it is used like a desktop (plugged into a lcd w/ kb & mouse).
- Piskvorrr 13y ago
  Oh, sure it won't be a top-of-the-line gaming PC, but that's IMHO not the use case - and it is a tradeoff for the small form-factor and hybridity of phone/PC. With what we know about the specs, it won't be a sluggish barely-usable netbook, either. Heavy number-crunching and mobility are always at odds; and while my gaming notebook is much beefier, it is also an order of magnitude(!) larger and heavier. The appeal here is "take your PC in your pocket, just plug it into any screen and off you go;" netbooks have IMHO failed to live up to this expectation by being 1.underpowered and 2.too bulky - this device seems to have the solution for #2 at the very least. So, while it won't be the best desktop PC you could get for this price, or the best smartphone you could get for this price (although for a smartphone, the specs are pretty good), you'd be getting both in one. I'm very curious to see how the integration between the two works out. TL;DR: "Doesn't beat the best desktop" does not imply "underpowered."

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I'd say the (promised) ability to be used both as a phone _and_ a desktop computer, depending on what you plug into it. Sounds pretty good to me: take your Andr

by Piskvorrr 13y ago

ixacto 13y ago
Not under powered, not too sure about that. The Ubuntu website says 'Fastest multi-core CPU, 4GB RAM, 128GB storage', ok good...but there is no way that it will even be as fast as a quad-core desktop i7 processor when it is used like a desktop (plugged into a lcd w/ kb & mouse).
- Piskvorrr 13y ago
  Oh, sure it won't be a top-of-the-line gaming PC, but that's IMHO not the use case - and it is a tradeoff for the small form-factor and hybridity of phone/PC. With what we know about the specs, it won't be a sluggish barely-usable netbook, either. Heavy number-crunching and mobility are always at odds; and while my gaming notebook is much beefier, it is also an order of magnitude(!) larger and heavier. The appeal here is "take your PC in your pocket, just plug it into any screen and off you go;" netbooks have IMHO failed to live up to this expectation by being 1.underpowered and 2.too bulky - this device seems to have the solution for #2 at the very least. So, while it won't be the best desktop PC you could get for this price, or the best smartphone you could get for this price (although for a smartphone, the specs are pretty good), you'd be getting both in one. I'm very curious to see how the integration between the two works out. TL;DR: "Doesn't beat the best desktop" does not imply "underpowered."