I love my GPD Micro PC
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I love my GPD Micro PC
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Re: I love my GPD Micro PC
#2I have one of these and also loved it… until the hinge snapped. They sent me a replacement top panel, but I still haven’t gotten around to fixing it because it’s a bit nervewracking. You have to lift the (pretty delicate-looking) screen off which is held on by adhesives.
Lovely little device, but not as durable as it might appear.
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#3My concern with a device of this size is typing. How do you use a keyboard barely larger than a credit card? Do you thumb-type, touch type, hunt-and-peck with just your index fingers?
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#4reminds me of the oqo, which I was really excited about back in the mid-2000s:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OQO
wonder how this form factor w/ some arm iron in it would perform...
I tend to use my lappy plugged in to a real keyboard/monitor to get anything done, so the small size is very attractive.
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#5My concern with a device of this size is typing. How do you use a keyboard barely larger than a credit card? Do you thumb-type, touch type, hunt-and-peck with just your index fingers?
Thumb type, I'd imagine. Like a BlackBerry.
It is one of those devices I could see always carrying with me but only using in emergencies. It has HDMI, Ethernet and serial ports. What more could you ask for?
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#6Doesn't seem that you can get these for 300 EUR anymore, or am I missing something obvious?
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#7I also have a MacBook Pro and a GPD Micro PC. The latter is ideal for taking into the field (in the case of my GPS work, literally a field) to connect to the various pieces of hardware I deal with. It's really a pocket-sized industrial PC, in the sense it has a lot of physical ports, e.g. Ethernet, a DB9 serial port, etc. taking it quite useful for hardware hackers.
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#8My concern with a device of this size is typing. How do you use a keyboard barely larger than a credit card? Do you thumb-type, touch type, hunt-and-peck with just your index fingers?
Maybe when throughput is a high concern you take a Bluetooth keyboard in a bag. Though at that point maybe also a light laptop would work...
Re: I love my GPD Micro PC
#9I have one of these and also loved it… until the hinge snapped. They sent me a replacement top panel, but I still haven’t gotten around to fixing it because it’s a bit nervewracking. You have to lift the (pretty delicate-looking) screen off which is held on by adhesives. Lovely little device, but not as durable as it might appear.
Did you get a sense for how long the battery was lasting while you were using it?
Re: I love my GPD Micro PC
#10I have one of these and also loved it… until the hinge snapped. They sent me a replacement top panel, but I still haven’t gotten around to fixing it because it’s a bit nervewracking. You have to lift the (pretty delicate-looking) screen off which is held on by adhesives. Lovely little device, but not as durable as it might appear.
It's a nice little device, but did experience fair share of problems too...
- Hinge snapping -- a little screw in the front that holds the screen in angle pretty much broke out from the chassis, breaking the part of front panel in process, too. Now I can't hold the panel in angles. Either I have to open it all the way or close.
- Battery stopped charging -- ended up removing it.
Now I just have it plugged in to do trivial things once in a while...