Laptop-like CrowView Note ready to work with Pi, phones and mini-PCs
newatlas.com
newatlas.com
Ultimately decided against it though, and got a Framework 13 laptop instead. Less fuss to use it rather than fiddling around with connectors and lugging two devices around in tandem. I also hope that Framework's modular approach means that this laptop won't have been a wasteful purchase and I can keep it as a 'laptop of Theseus' for the next decade or so.
Heh :)
At what point does it cease to be the same laptop and becomes something else?
Once you replace the last screw (there are no nails in Framework laptops).
Seriously, for thought: Will we ever (if ever) have electronics, screens ... that you can actually drive a nail through (remaining functional, to whatever degree, of course ...)
Essentially the same thing as a crash cart, but they're little bit sleeker since you can tuck it away when not in use.
I'd like to see a short-wide-screen form-factor, where the folded device is just the size of the keyboard.
And a synaptic trackpoint as on thinkpads.
I'm excited to see the row is keys on the right with Home, pgup, pgdn and End. Very useful for someone who spent their early computing years on non-gimped keyboards. I had a laptop with that layout in about 2009, was easy to adapt to.
Phones and other devices are plenty powerful these days for most tasks most people are doing on laptops. The input format is the only reason most people own them.
https://www.open-electronics.org/pi-top-the-all-new-modular-...
I gave it to a junior dev who worked for me, figuring I'd buy myself another one to replace it. I never did, presumably because it wasn't actually as useful as I'd imagined it'd be when I first impulse-bought it.
(It was also really quite crazily built. It worked fine, but it felt like a really cheap toy, instead of a tool. A MacBook and a Pi in a decent case is what I use instead these days.)
- Type-C port supports 5V/5A PD (Pi does not comply with PD specs)
- keyboard and trackpad over USB-A
- Micro HDMI input