I'm curious who the target expert or market is because I would not carry that clunky metal around.
The whole thing is terrible + a dedicated OS for "certain" work?
Price tag $2k? I would rather buy the Apple pouch.
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#132There are few more photos of this HW here [1] and [2]. Apparently a real HW already exists. Also, it seems there is a storage space inside the box [3] and that the keyboard is foldable.. [1]: https://www.pentagram.com/news/caligra-computers-for-experts [2]: https://www.instagram.com/p/DPEvytujE4k/ [3]: https://www.instagram.com/p/DPEvytujE4k/?img_index=8
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#133The Workbench feature to have an always-on-hand notepad overlay thing is really appealing. I always have a multi-tabbed text editor handy for quick notes and this seems like a good way to integrate that into the shell. I’d love to take this Workbench distribution for a spin based on that.
But to mirror the sentiment here on HN, the rest of it looks vaporware-y
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#134If Teenage Engineering made a computer. Expensive, not ergonomic, probably totally useless.
It's funny how price triggers people. Let them price their products however they will :-) As a counterpoint, EP-133 (KO-II) is a very interestingly designed product that is ergonomic, quite useful, and gets a specific job done very, very well. The price also has fewer digits, so perhaps it doesn't trigger people as much as other products do.
Who said they're not allowed to sell it?
I used to own an OP-1 and I thought it was great.
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#135A few things about this stand out: - Calligra with two 'l's is the name of a KDE office suite. - Why does the keyboard have macOS keys? At least as a Linux user, I've felt like most Linux desktops reflect the Windows keyboard layout more. - Can I have pictures of the internals of the machine, or is this a 3D rendering? - The Workbench OS makes a lot of claims that I want more information about. Is this a rice on a co…
> Why is it "suitable for sovereign and secure deployments"? It doesn't have device "drivers", it has device travellers . When you go to shut it down it pops up an annoying dialogue box saying that its "First Amendment Rights Are Being Violated" that won't go away, even though it's made in Shoreditch which is nowhere near the US and therefore the US constitution is about as relevant as Kenya's.
I think this will fly right past a number of people, but I appreciated it. As soon as I saw the word "sovereign" in the quote, my mind was already making the association with the nonsense people. My GPU's device traveller is a real pita, sometimes.
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#136Earlier quoted context omitted.
Right. Apple spent DECADES working on developers to make MBPs the exemplar hipster dev accessory
To be fair, I switched when apple silicon cut my compile time by 75 percent even using x86 emulation, dollar for dollar, and I got 2x battery life out of the deal for free. I run Linux most of the time in a VM these days, but I also really enjoy the ability to run largish (70b) models at Q6 with reasonable performance, thanks to the unified memory. They got some stuff pretty right, have to give them that.
For the price of the Apple Silicon I bought four AMD CPUs and distributed my build across them. But mostly I bought them for VP9 and AV1 encoding projects I'm working on. But no doubt Apple will eventually catch up.