very high price point for a shell.
$99 “laptop Shell” for Raspberry Pi or Windows 10 Continuum
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#13I'm now wary of indiegogo and crowdfunding laptops in general. I purchased the pi-top and, while it was a feat at the time, the build quality is so low that I just can't use it. The keyboard sucks, the trackpad is super cheap, and the plastic has a bulge which makes it uncomfortable to use.
So, trying to convert this comment into positive feedback for the creators: please spend the biggest part of your budget into the input devices. If you can't provide a good build quality, don't be cheap on the keyboard and laptop.
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#14I'll support it!
...by buying one after they reach production, assuming the product has good reviews.
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#15They want 119 USD for a screen that is 1366 * 768? I have to imagine they could put together better specs and still squeeze in some profit for themselves.
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#16I don't get it, just go on ebay ( http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2050601.m5... ) or amazon ( http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1/191-8083913-3793561... ) and get yourself old motorolla atrix/bionic lapdock , it has hdmi + usb and basically would work as hdmi external screen + usb keyboard and usb mouse for any device that supports it. UPDATE: well, apparently price jumped a lot, i got myself t…
You can get an entire functioning laptop for under $100 these days.
http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/pdp/Acer-Asp...
It doesn't run Windows 10 very well, with only 2GB of RAM and 16GB of storage (neither of which are user-upgradeable), but is actually a surprisingly nice with a light Linux distro.
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#17This is a great idea, and a concept that I'm ready for (my phone and tablets are already more powerful than the first 20, or so, desktop computers that I've owned, including machines up to just a few years ago). But, this particular device probably won't do, for me. It's as big as a full-size laptop but has a lower resolution display than I'm willing to use for laptop work today. To be clear: the size of it is fine, but only if it provided a reasonably high resolution display (which, I guess, would it much harder to hit this low price point).
I also wonder why it isn't fully functional with an Android device, and seems to only support display. I have a little keyboard and standing case for one of my tablets, and it works OK as a "very tiny laptop" (though not being a full-size keyboard makes it a non-starter for any real work). Why wouldn't this work for that, too? Does Windows phone have some specific functionality that makes it more appropriate for this kind of thing?
Anyway, this seems pretty close to a great implementation of a great idea. Maybe after launch they'll make a 1080P or QHD version for a little extra money. There's a lot of possibility for making this a great laptop replacement; they could stick a battery in it for longer working time, it could provide USB hub functionality for a mouse and other devices, etc.
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#18I'm now wary of indiegogo and crowdfunding laptops in general. I purchased the pi-top and, while it was a feat at the time, the build quality is so low that I just can't use it. The keyboard sucks, the trackpad is super cheap, and the plastic has a bulge which makes it uncomfortable to use. So, trying to convert this comment into positive feedback for the creators: please spend the biggest part of your budget into th…
Yep same here. Make something good and I will be customer of more then one device. But I really need review by gadget blog before I will consider buying.
On the other hand, super excited that we can have something like this. I was thinking about what it would take for me to use Raspberry Pi at work.
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#19While on the topic is there some cheap alternatives to this that can function as a VGA/DVI/HDMI-display+USB-keyboard out today? Also would this support to use the keyboard over usb instead of Bluetooth?
I have quite a few servers and various headless computers at home, every once in awhile I need to hook them up to a monitor and keyboard for some sort of debugging, today I usually carry around a spare LCD-monitor and standard keyboard however something like an empty laptop to be used as a portable terminal would be great for this.
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#20very high price point for a shell.
A shell with a screen. The 7" RasPi touchscreen is ~$70 and that doesn't have a keyboard, trackpad or hdmi (it uses a DSI ribbon cable and the gpio instead).