As a tech toy, it’s lovable. But for it to feel like a real “desktop in a keyboard” it needs more performance. I would love for something like this to be a breakout product that is real-world useful.
Raspberry Pi 500+
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This made me do some research and I'd say it appears so. https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pi-500-and-raspbe... > Our experiences with that programme informed the development of Raspberry Pi 400, our all-in-one PC, whose form factor (and name) harks back to the great 8-bit and 16-bit computers – the BBC Micro, Sinclair Spectrum, and Commodore Amiga – of the 1980s and 1990s. (emphasis mine) So the 400 name is…
quite possible because it's from Europe, but remember that Apple was sticking + on the end of their model names 6 years before the Amiga existed.
> remember that Apple was sticking + on the end of their model names 6 years before the Amiga existed.
Did they? AFAIK, Apple always used “Plus”, not “+” (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_II_Plus, https://mirrors.apple2.org.za/ftp.apple.asimov.net/documenta...), and “+” is shorthand invented by the community.
The Macintosh Plus, similarly, wasn’t a Macintosh+ in Apple’s marketing, AFAIK.
And, looking at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_500#Amiga_500_Plus, it doesn’t look like Commodore stuck + on the end of their model names, either.
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#193Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can buy a near mint lenovo l14 gen 3 from 2022 for $200. I know this because I bought one for my in-laws a few days ago.
You don't get support and the laptop can fail on you on week 4 you're just SOL. I understand the value of second hand, and randomly bought a discarded corporate HP tower for my home server. But I see it more as a hobby as I can probably fix most issues, than as a purchasing strategy I'd recommend to non technical people for instance.
I guess I'm just lucky because none of the 8 laptops I've bought used off ebay in the last 13 years have failed yet.
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#194> The ultimate all-in-one PC I object to this labelling: the term “all-in-one PC” has always been used to mean a computer integrated into a screen , to which you must add a keyboard and mouse (or more likely it will be bundled with a low-quality keyboard and mouse). But this is a computer integrated into a (good) keyboard , to which you must add a screen and mouse—and screens are more expensive than keyboards. Even a…
You don't add a new screen. You plug it into the family TV. Just like you did in the eighties when you were a kid learning to program with your Speccy or c64 or whatever. Mom or Dad or your siblings can hang out and comment on what you're doing with it. That's the experience Raspberry has been claiming to want to reproduce since they first came onto the scene in 2012, despite them not getting around to stuffing a Pi…
Or you plug it into one of your old monitors. We all have them laying around.
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#195Earlier quoted context omitted.
Below $200 laptops are way worse than what people imagine. Too many people look at ads, see something that looks like a laptop, and assume it's just a "no thrill" machine that mostly works. I've heard so many "how bad can it be?" hot takes as they've never used anything at that price. ※refurbished is another story, here we're talking about a new and under guarantee device so that wouldn't compare.
You can buy a near mint lenovo l14 gen 3 from 2022 for $200. I know this because I bought one for my in-laws a few days ago.
Why that specific model, tho? I'm looking for something like that. Are there other worthy models?
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#196IMO the coolest thing about this is that it all fits in a keyboard. It would be awesome if this came bundled with smart glasses, so I could walk into a coffee shop with just keyboard and glasses, and get work done without having to hunch over my laptop. Of course the present offering is lacking in computing power (and any form of display)
just get a foldable keyboard with your ar glasses https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43985513
Wow this is great, didn't realize this had become affordable! I'm going to google around, but do you know if any of the glasses would be "plug an play" with my (windows 10) laptop? I regularly work on my laptop to coffee shops, so if I can just add the glasses to my setup and eliminate posture issues, that would be amazing!
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#197I realize I'm probably in the 0.001% by having this opinion (so don't take this as criticism or request for change or even a suggestion), but the reason I'm not buying this is the mechanical keyboard. Strongly prefer chiclet keyboards.
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#198Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've noticed Raspberry Pi posts here always attract tons of negative comments, regardless of what the article is about.
I think that's a combination of things: 1) The company "sold out". That is, in times of limited supply they prioritized fulfilling large compute module orders instead of the hobbyist market that initially supported them. To be fair if I was running that company I'd have done the exact same thing, it's obviously the right financial choice. Just, you know, it'll sting for the market that was shunned. 2) They got expens…
This is why I am negative on them. Apart from point 1, which I didn't really care about at the time.
And SDCards. Who kept making that decision?
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#199Earlier quoted context omitted.
You don't add a new screen. You plug it into the family TV. Just like you did in the eighties when you were a kid learning to program with your Speccy or c64 or whatever. Mom or Dad or your siblings can hang out and comment on what you're doing with it. That's the experience Raspberry has been claiming to want to reproduce since they first came onto the scene in 2012, despite them not getting around to stuffing a Pi…
> Mom or Dad or your siblings can hang out and comment on what you're doing with it. This sounds really cozy. For those of us who never got to experience it - bring it back!
Lying on the living room floor looking up the the TV was great for getting a sore neck. And I still have crusty calloused skin on my elbows from the carpet. Getting an Amiga later on with an actual monitor that sat on a desk was amazing.
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#200do I need one?
will I buy one?
how can I not. :-/