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I love my GPD Micro PC

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Re: I love my GPD Micro PC

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Post by out_of_protocol »

Joeri wrote: post #152
nextos wrote: post #94

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The MBA 11 was a nearly perfect form factor. It's a shame it got discontinued. Plus it ran Linux like almost no other computer. It was a plain Intel machine, indistinguishable from other PCs. With a slightly better screen and narrower bezels and M1 fanless CPUs it'd be amazing.

The M2 mba doesn’t seem that much bigger than the 11 inch. When I compare my old 11 inch and my m1 they feel of a similar size and weight class, and the m2 is smaller and lighter than the m1. 11 inch mba: Dimensions: .11-.68 x 11.8 x 7.56 (0.3 cm-1.7 cm, 30 cm, 19.2 cm) Avg. Weight: 2.38 lbs (1.08 kg) M2 macbook air: Dimensions: 0.44 x 11.97 x 8.46 (1.13 cm x 30.41 cm x 21.5 cm) Avg. Weight: 2.7 lbs (1.24 kg)

...and recently announced Fujitsu Lifebook WU-X/G2 (13.3") is 0.634 kg, half the weight. Macbooks are made of metal, quote sturdy, but not lightweight by any means

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Post by rbanffy »

My go-to laptop for these situations is a small Acer "Cloudbook" - one of the first Chromebook-like computers that came with Windows. It has a Celeron, 4GB of RAM, and 32GB of eMMC flash and is running Fedora. It's not fast by any standard, but with a 10" screen and costing about $100 new when bought, it fills the role perfectly.

Re: I love my GPD Micro PC

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Post by Yizahi »

zwayhowder wrote: post #155
NikolaNovak wrote: post #112

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... Is that a trackpoint on it?? It's a "shut up and take my money" system for me; I've dream of a netbook/micropc with trackpoint and keyboard taking as much space as it can for about 12-13 years now. Thx!

I was so sad when I specifically ordered an HP laptop for work (The other choice was Dell) to get the keyboard with a trackpoint on it, only to find out that the HP layout only has two buttons. It turns out my years of ThinkPad training has given me permanent muscle memory that the button underneath the middle of the space bar is middle mouse and therefore paste :)

And there is no Insert button, so you need to do a convoluted Ctrl/Shift-Fn-E combo to copy/paste in the terminal.

Re: I love my GPD Micro PC

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Post by jqpabc123 »

RajT88 wrote: post #145
jqpabc123 wrote: post #135

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How about a slightly different approach? I just use a tablet --- supplemented by a compact foldable bluetooth keyboard with touchpad as needed ($30 on Amazon).

I haven't loved getting a shell / IDE running on my Android devices. I refuse to buy iOS, but if I could get some decent dev environment going for .Net Core or python, I'd buy an iPad. If you have a solution, I'm all ears. Otherwise, the dream of running my full work stack on a mobile device other than a desktop OS remains a pipe dream.

Windows Subsystem for Linux ver 2 (WSL2)?

RDP/VNC?

Re: I love my GPD Micro PC

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Post by layer8 »

Rediscover wrote: post #195
georgewsinger wrote: post #95

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Yes. Things under consideration for this: 1. A chorded keyboard: some people are working on this. 2. A keyboard apron: I've built a prototype of one here: https://www.wolframcloud.com/obj/george.w.singer/business/pn...

> ...chorded keyboard... Verbose mode, please.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorded_keyboard

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yomkippur wrote: post #161
fio_ini wrote: post #148

I sit down at the coffee shop. It's so magical... the way it wisps across the room as I pull it out of my pocket. The wind blows and brushes a beautiful brunette woman's hair across her face. She smiles at me. Is that a GPD Micro PC? Yes I say smoothly as she touches my thigh and asks if she can borrow it. I want to email my dad and tell him that I've found the man that shall hold my hand in marriage. A man walks out…

Jeff Bezos whispered in my ear: 256GB model is $700+ CAD

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Re: I love my GPD Micro PC

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Post by vanderZwan »

dTal wrote: post #88

>this little thing has a soul Yes. This is how I feel. I love my Micro PC more than is probably healthy. It enables a qualitatively different relationship with computing. It's a special, special device. I'm so glad someone put some of my feelings into words, and that it made it to the front page. (also, it is sturdy as hell - I'm notoriously clumsy with my devices, and despite owning it for over a year and dropping i…

I felt this way about my Eee PC 1000HA a decade ago. Still miss hacking away on it.

Re: I love my GPD Micro PC

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Post by sound1 »

Yizahi wrote: post #204
zwayhowder wrote: post #155

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was so sad when I specifically ordered an HP laptop for work (The other choice was Dell) to get the keyboard with a trackpoint on it, only to find out that the HP layout only has two buttons. It turns out my years of ThinkPad training has given me permanent muscle memory that the button underneath the middle of the space bar is middle mouse and therefore paste :)

And there is no Insert button, so you need to do a convoluted Ctrl/Shift-Fn-E combo to copy/paste in the terminal.

Worst part: they got rid of the insert key to accommodate dedicated call and hangup keys for MS Teams.

Re: I love my GPD Micro PC

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Post by moffkalast »

di4na wrote: post #192
MezzoDelCammin wrote: post #190

Any chance of more details on "where" did You buy it for 300EUR? Looking at Google Shopping results (location:Germany) right now and there seems to be no chance of getting it below ~450EUR, more like 500+EUR (when shipping is included). Portability is nice, but I'm finding it hard to imagine a scenario where the small width/height would be the killer feature. For that kind of price I think there are much nicer option…

Probably was before the current euro crash. Euro went from stablish 1.20 USD to parity the past few months

Looking at Amazon.de prices with Keepa it seems that the price has gradually been upped from 450€ in March to 600€ now in August. So they're just price gouging it for whatever reason, probably more demand than they can produce with China still presumably on lockdown.

Checking aliexpress pricing history it seems to have gone for as low as 320€ before covid hit. So assuming he got one of those checkout coupons he could've saved another 20€ easily, making it a flat 300€ as stated. This thing has been on the market for quite a while.

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