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While I like the iPad's screen (pretty great for reading pdfs), I'd much prefer something like the Starlite [0] for a more versatile usage. The iPad has nice app, but they're too constrained both by the platform and Apple's policy.

[0]: https://us.starlabs.systems/pages/starlite

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This looks great but god I cringe anytime I seed micro-HDMI being used for anything but a case study of a pointless, terrible port. I’d rather not have any display-out at all vs a port that is probably going to fail right when I need it to, if I can remember the stupid adapter.

Should’ve just been another USB-C port. Let me break it out to what I need, since I’m gonna need a dongle anyways.

and then there is mini-hdmi as well

Equally loathsome and unreliable, without hardly any space savings! Utterly pointless.

It will. Micro-HDMI is insufferable shit that should be called out and rejected unless it's a life-saving last resort.

I bought one of those for this reason. I really like starlabs and want to support them, but the keyboard cover for that device is .. not great. If it had a keyboard similar to the apple ipad keyboard (the expensive one with backlighting - I forget their name for it), the starlite would be a much more compelling device. At this point mine just sits in a desk drawer and may find its way to eBay.

I don’t have much hope for these types of keyboards and for the price of a Magic Keyboard, i’d prefer a better keyboard (not a high bar there) and some kind of stand even though a bit more cumbersome.

but that doesn't run the official Netflix, Disney+, Apple+ etc apps, does it? Or via something like Waydroid?

It can run Windows 11. Presumably you could also dual-boot.

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