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You can pair a bluetooth keyboard and mouse, it was shown in the keynote.

If I'm just going to use this sitting at my desk, I'll stick with my monitor instead.

That's fair. My monitor is a constrained space. If this headset is light and comfortable and can give me unlimited real estate without compromising on text clarity and resolution, I'd happily wear it all day at my desk.

Hey, I think that's fair too.

The beautiful part is that the headset makes any desk (at my apartment, when visiting parents, in the office, etc.) my desk, which is exactly the same every time no matter where I am. Without bajillion cables and with instantaneous setup time. And would allow me to not worry about the physical constraints of the surface and take up no actual physical space on the desk.

If you have no desk, are you putting the keyboard on your lap? Sounds fumbly.

No worse than using a laptop in your lap would be.

That's why they aren't called laptops anymore. They're called notebooks. Because you're not supposed to use them on your lap.

The funny thing here is I often use a paper notebook on my lap (on a clipboard), but rarely use a laptop on my lap.

I sit on a reclining desk chair, about 4 feet back from a 46" TV. I have a lap desk with a bluetooth keyboard and trackpad. Love it! I'm interested in trying this out, to be able to have a bigger screen, and to be able to take it anywhere.

That sounds fun. I do that from time to time, but it gets fumbly for me. You must have a better chair (or keyboard) if it's working for you. Also.. my TV isn't nearly 4k (or even 2k)

I did pick up a nice chair when some nearby offices were being vacated a couple years ago. I have used a decade-old Apple BT keyboard and trackpad. They're great (though the batteries have to be changed every month or so). My TV is 1080p, and I wish it were a bit higher resolution, for sure.

I have desks at home, work, at parents' house, etc. So i have a physical desk in all places to place a keyboard on.

The issue is that all those desks are different, and I am not carrying the same setup everywhere. I am not going to bring my monitors and cables and the rest on a flight to visit parents. Or if I am working from a hotel. And I am not carrying my entire setup every time i switch between working in the office or at home.

But just a headset + kbm? No problem, especially since consistency of the setup being the same is guaranteed, and the setup time is zero.

You can use a Bluetooth keyboard pretty much anywhere you can sit with it on your lap or a table in front of you. One might legitimately worry about looking like a huge dork in public, but for a lot of people I imagine there is a lot of appeal to a device that can throw up a virtual array of multiple monitors anywhere they want to sit down and get some work done.

Yes let me just rip the keyboard I carry with me out of my back pocket.

Well, you do you, but if I were using a headset like this as a laptop replacement I would put it and the keyboard in a backpack. You know, just like how I carry my laptop around today.

I actually carry a keyboard around with me in my laptop bag 'cause I think keyboards on laptops all suck these days.

But that's probably not the exact point you were making and yeah, I'm in the minority.

Just don't dismiss my corner case, por favor.

Well the keyboard I use everyday fits my pocket. I'd definitely use this with my keyboard.

Sure. But you can use a laptop on any table.

Or on my lap, for that matter, but it can't throw up a virtual array of huge monitors. Even the biggest laptops feel cramped next to my desk setup at home.

But my array of huge monitors has more resolution than 2160x2160 and multiple people can look at them at the same time without getting nauseous.

Your "array of huge monitors" is, I assume, not in any reasonable sense as portable as a laptop or a headset and BT keyboard. You're talking in circles.

I've been coding from a couch for 6 years or so, this can be done.

If anything, this headset could use cameras to superimpose your fingers on keyboard if you can't memory type.

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