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Re: c100

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Post by Gormo »

anentropic wrote: post #59

Can you get one with the numeric keypad on the right side?

Putting the numpad on the left is actually a potentially great idea. It lets you keep your right hand on the mouse or arrow keys, while entering numbers with your left, rather than having to switch your right hand between them constantly. If you could retrain your muscle memory to use the numpad with your left hand, it'd be convenient for any use case that requires numeric data entry with more complex navigation than just tab/shift-tab between fields.

Re: c100

#92

Post by floren »

wang_li wrote: post #53
Aurornis wrote: post #47

I 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’…

Cost of RAM and SSD seems like a secondary challenge. Trying to piss up a waterfall is more in line with the reality that products that are first about design and second about capability face when entering the current workstation and laptop markets that have been iterated on for decades and haven't seen a dramatic new redesign ever. The closest such advance in recent years didn't happen and instead turned into the ma…

> The closest such advance in recent years didn't happen and instead turned into the macbook neo. Apple could have released an OS for the iphone pro max model of phones that allow them to boot Mac OS when attached to a docking station. And sold a laptop formfactor docking station.

I find it more likely that Apple are working furiously the other way: to make Macbooks boot iOS.

Re: c100

#93

Post by nickisnoble »

LeanOnSheena wrote: post #8

I have one of the units from the first run where 96GB of RAM was offered. Personally speaking I was buying it primarily for the design aesthetic (an industrial design partner from Pentagram was involved), but I've come to enjoy the Workbench OS UI features and associated shortcuts; I use it as a secondary work machine for various data science applications. I can attest to the general build quality which so far seems…

Same, it's fantastic, and SIMPLE.

Very rare these days.

Re: c100

#94

Post by benj111 »

applfanboysbgon wrote: post #67
Aurornis wrote: post #47

I 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’…

> window of extremely elevated RAM and SSD prices Is it a window? It seems likely to me that we're going to be paying the LLM tax on all of our consumer electronics for the rest of our lives.

So you think supply isn't going to increase in the next ~40 years?

Re: c100

#95

Post by 1001111 »

Wayland is a display server protocol for window management.

Installing software:

#ssh-keygen

#ssh -T git@github.com

Re: c100

#96

Post by benj111 »

heyitsmedotjayb wrote: post #9

Who came up with this and then designed it around a non-standard keyboard layout... Jail is the only answer.

Why the number pad on the left?

I'm left handed and don't think that's a good idea

Re: c100

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Post by benj111 »

JR1427 wrote: post #16

> The case is CNC milled from a solid block of aluminium What a waste of material and machining time!

How would you make a low run product? Casting requires molds.

Re: c100

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Post by benj111 »

MerrimanInd wrote: post #83

I don't understand this at all and I've deployed Linux machines to workstations and factory environments. It's an "all in one" in that it has compute and a keyboard. But the mouse isn't integrated (literally just a wired mouse you lug around with it) and no display. So you can't actually walk it right up to a bench and start using it like a laptop. It has built in storage for your "stuff" but again, it's not fully po…

Yeah, I'm just reading it as hobyists putting it in the workshop next to the 3d printer.

It isn't even well thought out. You can fold the keyboard away while you're doing work. But you can only access the storage while the keyboard is open.

Re: c100

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Post by indrora »

LeanOnSheena wrote: post #8

I have one of the units from the first run where 96GB of RAM was offered. Personally speaking I was buying it primarily for the design aesthetic (an industrial design partner from Pentagram was involved), but I've come to enjoy the Workbench OS UI features and associated shortcuts; I use it as a secondary work machine for various data science applications. I can attest to the general build quality which so far seems…

How's the guts look? There's a lot of flash and pizzaz about aesthetics, but I work with files in the 400-800GB range on a regular basis, so I tend to prefer dumping gigantic SSDs into my work machines (I recently liquidated fortune 5 stock to get an 8tb disk[1]).

There's some words about "oh yeah you can upgrade this" but not many details. The only thing I've seen so far has been a single shot from the Pentagram splash where it looks like a fairly standard off-the-shelf mini PC that's been gutted and put on life support like a Raspberry Pi Cyberdeck.

[1] https://sabrent.com/products/sb-rkt4p-8tb

Re: c100

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Post by glimshe »

I hated this product and would never buy it. Non standard keyboard with white keys (!), waste of space with that storage area and hefty price for the specs. I'd much rather buy a Mac mini I was in the market for a premium mini PC.
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