I love my GPD Micro PC

Had one for three years. Use it nearly every day, but I work with embedded systems in robots/industrial machinery. One handed operation, tons of IO, dual boot, fits in back pocket etc. have made this indispensable.

One dead battery, replacement part from alibaba via GPD rep given link. Easy to disassemble via screwdriver and spudger. Works great now. Injection molded piece that held the threads where the hinge attached also failed. Drilled a little pinhole and added a small machine screw, nut and threadlocker. No more problems. Nut goes under the plastic hinge cover. The fix is literally better than original.

Other than that, the only issue I've had is getting grub to see the screen as landscape. Grub config options seem to get ignored. Oh well. Standard rotation is sorted with boot scripts and the OEM Windows 10 side works great.

You don’t need a fanny pack, it fits in my jeans pants, granted I wear TAD Intercept jeans which have slightly larger front pockets, but still most pants it fits fine. GPD Micro PC is also my favorite device and I carry it everywhere along with a Verizon LTE usb stick and I’m never in a situation I can’t work if the need arises, even without a seat as you get good thumb typing on it. Highly recommend it to those with system admin components to their responsibilities. I’ve also used the serial port several times while working at a data center.

At a previous job, I was the engineering manager for a new neo-bank and was on call 24/7 for it. I have a beefy Lenovo P52 that I hated carrying around and leaving in my car lest it get stolen. So I got a GPD Pocket. It fit very well into my back pocket.

Not only did it work great for emergency situations (I ran Ubuntu MATE as well) when I needed to SSH into machines, check stuff on Datadog, edit code to make a quick fix, push code to our K8S environments and more, but I actually found myself frequently at coffee shops and bars coding away happily on it. It brought a certain amount of freedom and cool factor with it. It was a delightful little device with a very sharp and crisp screen, a surprisingly useful keyboard that combined well with my i3 environment, that I could actually be productive on (save for running our test suite which took around 30 minutes and sucked the life out of the battery). It also got a lot of onlookers asking questions about it, leading to those ever so fun random conversations that can lead to night long friendships over wine and coffee.

I genuinely miss it and will probably pick up another one now that I just got hired as a CTO for another project with equally demanding on-call schedules and uptime requirements. Although I don't drink anymore so none of those fun conversations. Ce la vie.

That's what I did. Never felt the need for a built in modem, especially considering they are notoriously difficult to get working in Ubuntu.

I wish I could use one of those, I had one actually some years ago but my eyes were burning (I have huge fonts compared to average people in my regular 17inch laptop).