This looks like a cool desktop computer; not sure why he labels a computer explicitly designed to not be usable in your lap a "laptop".
He calls it a laptop since Framework calls its computers "laptops" and the whole setup is battery powered.
That's just a plainly false statement, and there have been several instances where the fact I can use my laptop while travelling has been very important.
It's not, uh, intellectually honest to say "here's how to build a triple-screen laptop!" and then follow that up with "oh, btw, don't use laptops, desktop computers are better for you, see?".
All that said, I did enjoy the build and it's really cool to see both Framework parts being used as well as of course 3d printing. Nice.
You could argue that something "truly" designed for lapwork would better deserve the name laptop, but it's just weird to say that something completely unusable in your lap should be called a laptop.
The new Macbooks feel dead cold.
I have a ton of general purpose computers that can be set up on a desk but are otherwise wildly impractical some place like an airplane, or in any kind of moving vehicle.
It is kind of why I still am married to having a traditional laptop instead of just using my iPad with a keyboard case for example. It just gets more fiddly. I’d take my steam deck with me to somewhere I’d be able to set up with for non-gaming use but I’d never try to use it as a regular computer on a plane or even in a coffee shop killing time between appointments or whatever.
We don’t do portables/luggable as terminology anymore but that is where it breaks for me.
I appreciate you offering that perspective though.
Take the part of the laptop that's good (the portability) and adapt it to be something that is even better.
We can quibble with if this is a "true" laptop later...
Yes, but the laptop form factor is the only thing that has any hope of working in the space granted to someone sitting on a train. And "use it while travelling" feels like a fairly important use case for the "mobile computer" niche.