Doesn't seem that you can get these for 300 EUR anymore, or am I missing something obvious?
OP here – I got it second-hand, from a guy who ordered it directly from GPD as a note-taking device but it didn’t work out for him.
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#43It's because the genuinely small 9inch netbooks were good. The 10inch netbooks were not.
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#44Hmm i didn't know stuff this size still exists. It would be a nice toy... at toy prices tho. Looks like it's a bit expensive new.
The OP says it was 300 eur used. What else is available in this form factor but more towards this one's used price?
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#45"Better not hop on a city bike with it in my backpack, ’cause what if I fall?" How often do people fall on bikes? I biked for years in SF with my work laptop and never had an issue.
For one our president https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSm7bjGjEwM
The first few stops with toe clips are pretty dicey.
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#46When I see expensive ($600+), small niche toys like this, I always think "what is that, a keyboard for ants?" I appreciate clever ideas, but it has to be practical--and my hands (and neck and shoulders) need a usable keyboard. Otherwise, it's a toy.
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#47It's because the genuinely small 9inch netbooks were good. The 10inch netbooks were not.
Loss of the eePC 900/1000 series is another exhibit in the case that
"Markets are a Myth". How could such a self evidently near perfect
form factor be deemed "niche"?
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#48Tangential, but: > I’m very vigilant and still a bit freaked out when I carry the Macbook around. Careful in tight spaces! Better not hop on a city bike with it in my backpack, ’cause what if I fall? I've actually found MacBooks to be impressively sturdy. Perhaps I've been lucky. I've dropped my 2016 Intel MBP once while coming out of my car, it hit the pavement on its corner. There was a little dent in the corner, a…
I too have found the MacBook Air family to be hardy. Have owned probably 20 of them since they came out. Rock solid hardware, modulo a certain butterfly keyboard incident or three.
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#49Hmm i didn't know stuff this size still exists. It would be a nice toy... at toy prices tho. Looks like it's a bit expensive new. The OP says it was 300 eur used. What else is available in this form factor but more towards this one's used price?
Just looked it up on amazon and am not sure how 300 euro turned to $600+, without taxes and shipping. Overpriced if you asked me. Not too fond about Celeron processors either.
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#50I wished pine64 would make one. I'd prefer that over their phone or tablet with keyboard.
The Pinephone + keyboard fills this niche for me. I guess there could be an in between size w/ that and the Pinebook.