I love my GPD Micro PC • Hacker News Board

Re: I love my GPD Micro PC

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Post by layer8 » Thu, Aug 18, 2022, 10:27 PM UTC

georgewsinger wrote: post #38

RE the GDP's portability: I had a One Mix Yoga (similar form factor) a few years ago and also used a bunch for this reason as well: > It’s ultra-portable. It resides permanently in my waist bag (a.k.a. fanny pack for my American readers) alongside my wallet and phone, and I carry it around everywhere when I’m out and about. It’s super lightweight for a laptop (I hardly feel the extra grams), and reaching for it only…

It seems you’d still need a separate keyboard though, or else be very limited in he kind of work you can do.

Re: I love my GPD Micro PC

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Post by bombcar » Thu, Aug 18, 2022, 10:30 PM UTC

nonrandomstring wrote: post #47

Marazan wrote: post #43

It'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"?

Because small is really hard to sell. Even Apple can't really do it, the very small Air is gone, and the iPhone mini has left the building.

Re: I love my GPD Micro PC

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Post by ajsnigrutin » Thu, Aug 18, 2022, 10:38 PM UTC

Damn... this looks great for $300! I wanna buy one!

Google, amazon, aliexpress... and 666eur was the cheapest I could find :/

Yeah... no.

Re: I love my GPD Micro PC

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Post by jgrauman » Thu, Aug 18, 2022, 10:39 PM UTC

I feel like someone should encourage the Raspberry Pi people to make a handheld with this form factor based on their latest board.

Re: I love my GPD Micro PC

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Post by mr_spothawk » Thu, Aug 18, 2022, 10:41 PM UTC

layer8 wrote: post #51

georgewsinger wrote: post #38

RE the GDP's portability: I had a One Mix Yoga (similar form factor) a few years ago and also used a bunch for this reason as well: > It’s ultra-portable. It resides permanently in my waist bag (a.k.a. fanny pack for my American readers) alongside my wallet and phone, and I carry it around everywhere when I’m out and about. It’s super lightweight for a laptop (I hardly feel the extra grams), and reaching for it only…

It seems you’d still need a separate keyboard though, or else be very limited in he kind of work you can do.

I'm excited about the prospect of cordless, chorded keyboards

Re: I love my GPD Micro PC

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Post by ryukafalz » Thu, Aug 18, 2022, 10:44 PM UTC

afandian wrote: post #11

coverclock wrote: post #7

I 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.

I’m quietly excited about the MNT Pocket Reform [0]. There’s some real progress being made by the looks of it [1]. [0] https://mntre.com/media/reform_md/2022-06-20-introducing-mnt... [1] https://mobile.twitter.com/minut_e/status/155805356090603110...

Same, this is the one that’s caught my eye the most. I hope they get suspend working reliably though (and cut down on power usage in suspend) - that’s been my biggest issue with my Reform 2 and it’ll be even more important for a more portable device.

Re: I love my GPD Micro PC

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Post by walrus01 » Thu, Aug 18, 2022, 10:45 PM UTC

that keyboard is an abomination

Re: I love my GPD Micro PC

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Post by ezoe » Thu, Aug 18, 2022, 10:50 PM UTC

ajsnigrutin wrote: post #53

Damn... this looks great for $300! I wanna buy one! Google, amazon, aliexpress... and 666eur was the cheapest I could find :/ Yeah... no.

In Japan, the cheapest I could find was 68000 JPY which is about 500 USD in the current exchange rate. It's better than your situation but still.

Re: I love my GPD Micro PC

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Post by LAC-Tech » Thu, Aug 18, 2022, 10:50 PM UTC

If it breaks, it breaks; but who knows! I once accidentally dropped the Eee from ~1 metre of height, chipping off some of the chassis plastic, but the computer continued to work.

Stuff like this was why I keep buying Asus. I was once watching an engrossing video and put my zenbook ontop of a washing machine. The top was slanted, so it slid off and kerb stomped the concrete floor face first.

Zero all effects except for some scratches. I still use it.

Re: I love my GPD Micro PC

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Post by MisterSandman » Thu, Aug 18, 2022, 10:51 PM UTC

ajsnigrutin wrote: post #53

Damn... this looks great for $300! I wanna buy one! Google, amazon, aliexpress... and 666eur was the cheapest I could find :/ Yeah... no.

Exactly what I was going to say, it costs 700 CAD... not sure where OP got 300 EUR from. Those specs, even on a normal laptop, go for around $600