Maybe this is the answer to the impending cabin baggage laptop ban.
Carry a keyboard and screen in your hold bag, the phone with your data and applications in your pocket.
Maru OS – A complete desktop experience on a smartphone
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Re: Maru OS – A complete desktop experience on a smartphone
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
Motorola Atrix, Ubuntu Phone, Windows Phone 10 has Continuum. It's been tried before.
I don't think this makes sense until phones are basically as fast as current laptops.
The flagship phone for this OS is the nexus 5 which uses a 2.26 Ghz quad core qualcomm chip and has 2 gb ram. The hw limitation seems to be the low ram limiting the number of memory heavy desktop apps you can run. Definitely not a video editing rig and vbox doesn't work on arm hosts, but this is good for spread sheets / typing up papers / scanning things with your camera and quickly editing them on a desktop with out any data transfer hassles.
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#53I find it amusing the promo shot shows it running on an Apple Thunderbolt display - which famously does not support HDMI input, only Thunderbolt - for which there is no MHL adapter.
Pretty sure this is incorrect, as I had an old DisplayPort Apple Display that I used with HDMI input, and from what I understand, the Thunderbolt displays also supported DisplayPort. Granted, the adapter was not cheap, but it did work.
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#54So, with the recent discussion about banning laptops on flights form Europe into the US, I was wondering about something like this. A way to still have a computer but in something the size of your phone. Not just a phone OS, but a full desktop OS. Obviously the small screen size is an issue, but I wonder how that could be handled. Possibly from the airlines with some form of display input for a screen on the back of the seat? Not sure, really. Either way, interesting stuff.
Re: Maru OS – A complete desktop experience on a smartphone
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
But if you think about it, the use case for almost 80% of the people out there that use laptops or desktops is for web browsing and office work (text editing etc) which phones should be able to handle well.
Think of any task that has ever caused your laptop fans to spin up, and cross that task off of what is possible on a phone-as-desktop list. No high definition video calls. No 1080p gaming. No fully functional IDEs (intellisense and interactive linting/compiling is computationally expensive). No high definition movies. Video/batch photo conversions are probably out, though may be possible at 1/10th speed. The most suc…
You are over-exaggerating quite a lot to say the least. Microsoft Continuum currently works on Windows 10 Mobile with passive cooling just fine.
Samsung DeX has active cooling in the dock though, to be able to handle even heavier loads with SoCs as close to thermal limits as possible, without headroom.
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#56I am really surprised that the "single computing / storage device" idea which can switch between different screens and input methods seamlessly (and maybe support plug-in CPUs) is just is not happening, though the concept here is a small step in that direction. Having everything in the cloud seems to have made this somewhat redundant for most users, though I still hope one day I can carry all my data around, of cours…
I prefer the idea of a phone that can be plugged on a better hardware (desktop) and quickly boot on it... without the need of turn of the phone and the changes on desktop appearing on phone...
I always thought this was going to be the direction of the original iPod. Any day now...
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#57Maru == (Windows Continuum || Google Fuchsia)
Re: Maru OS – A complete desktop experience on a smartphone
#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
Motorola Atrix, Ubuntu Phone, Windows Phone 10 has Continuum. It's been tried before.
Continuum is arguably a successful implementation of this idea, with the unfortunate handicap of being on a platform nobody wants.
Many Windows developers do want UWP, it is Longhorn done right.
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
Motorola webtop on Atrix was too early - phones were just too slow for even basic browsing in Firefox in laptop mode. Perhaps Maru is smooth enough on new hardware? (Still have the lapdock lying around, now hooked into RPi.)
In your experience, how well does the lapdock run with an RPi? I have a lapdock lying around, and never thought of this for some reason.
Not the person you replied to but I have the same setup. The only real issue is getting the adapters so they can be connected (plenty available on a variety of websites, but of questionable quality).
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#60I'm wondering how secure it is.. According to https://github.com/maruos/maruos/wiki/Tips , they start sshd up by default, listening on the local network, with the default user maru and password maru. That seems like a bit of a red flag and makes me wonder if it is the tip of the iceberg.
That seems like a bit of a red flag
A basic and egregious security blunder is more than a bit of a red flag.
and makes me wonder if it is the tip of the iceberg.
If you already see that the tip sticking out has a mine on it, the tons of iceberg only give you the difference in the degree of egregiously bad.