flagged. this should be on showHN. pretty much an Advertisement
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#42Good look. What are the advantages over MAC or cloud VMs? If it is $500~$1000 it could be a good gift. And is the current size a little big? Could it be put into a bag?
But is mobility really what they were going for? I’m not sure, because they also purposefully increased the size and weight by adding the frunk
I felt as well that they miss their window. This kind of rectangular shape with keyboard + computer would be great actually for digital nomad / people going to coworking spaces, but looks way to heavy.
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#43Why does it have a frunk?
You can put your w in there
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#44Looks extraordinarily unergonomic and I don't get why I would need a number pad as a developer.
As someone who does CAD on the side, I couldn't live without one.
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#45Who came up with this and then designed it around a non-standard keyboard layout... Jail is the only answer.
Also it's close to ANSI layout, what about ISO? I want a german E1 layout(§), thank you very much.
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#46Basically Teenage Engineering doing a laptop.
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#47I feel sorry for any company trying to launch a new compute product during this window of extremely elevated RAM and SSD prices.
This looks well built with a lot of attention to detail. It’s impressive that the price isn’t higher for this level of machining and build quality on a low volume product.
I could see this doing well in some niche studios where they value design of all of the products in the office, but it’s a tough niche. The graphic and video designers are all going to be buying Apple. The CAD and engineering people want something with a real GPU. Most developers want a laptop that they can take with them. It’s nice that parts can be upgraded, but anchoring to that CPU is tough.
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#48Here are some more informative photos: https://www.pentagram.com/work/caligra-c100-developer-termin...
So from these pictures they just put an off the shelf minipc in a aluminium case and ship it with a matching keyboard.
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#49There's a lot of WTF here, including paying $1400 for a Linux workstation with 32GB of RAM and what looks like a mobile CPU, along with an integral keyboard that seems like it would give you RSI just looking at it. Who on earth is buying this?
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#50Looks cute, but unsure what it does and why they made it and how i can use for what... Site looks good but it might mean c100 have no substance, thus at least had to make the site and their gadget pretty.
Famous Design House™ decided to make a custom computer. They took a nice PC, made a nice metal box for it, and attached another box to the back.
You can put things in this box, which is an unusual accessory for a computer.
They also made an OS which will cost a lot of money per seat per year.
Then they took many clean smooth fingerprint-free photos and made a web site to try to sell it.
The web site makes the box look nice but does a poor job explaining the rest.