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I find it a tragic that such an efficient, powerful, portable computer is so locked down hindered that it will only ever be used as a phone. I so desperately wa
by frarrgraaw 12y ago
I find it a tragic that such an efficient, powerful, portable computer is so locked down hindered that it will only ever be used as a phone. I so desperately want to be able to use cost/power efficient computers for desktop use. I waste so much electricity using this hulking tower where I don't need to use it to it's full potential 99% of the time.
- laichzeit0 12y agoDo people really only use these things to "phone"? I spend probably 1% of my time on my mobile actually _phoning_ people. I wonder if this can't be generalized to a lot of other people. If it couldn't make any GSM calls it would only slightly inconvenience me.
- chrisdevereux 12y agoI think you mean Facebook/web machine, not phone. Which is exactly what most people used their (not at all locked down, similarly powerful) laptops for before smartphones existed.
- skrause 12y agoI don't think there is a need to use specialized phone hardware as a desktop computer when computers like Intel's NUC have an idle power consumption of only 6.8W while being an order of magniture faster: http://www.anandtech.com/show/7566/intels-haswell-nuc-d54250wyk-ucff-pc-review/6 http://www.anandtech.com/show/7566/intels-haswell-nuc-d54250...
- zenojevski 12y agoWhat about Android micro-computers on an USB key? http://www.laptopmag.com/android-sticks http://www.laptopmag.com/android-sticks With a little hackery you should be able to do pretty much everything within the storage / processing power budget.