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$99 “laptop Shell” for Raspberry Pi or Windows 10 Continuum

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Re: $99 “laptop Shell” for Raspberry Pi or Windows 10 Continuum

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Post by dwild »

tehbeard wrote: post #20
3327 wrote: post #11

very 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).

The RasPi touchscreen is way overpriced too. You can get a whole tablet running Windows 10 for a little bit more. Sure it will come from China and will be probably filled with backdoor but the cost is there.

A better example would be that Acer laptop that someone else talked about here: http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/pdp/Acer-Asp...

Re: $99 “laptop Shell” for Raspberry Pi or Windows 10 Continuum

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Post by viewer5 »

bydo wrote: post #16
vittore wrote: post #4

I 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.

Holy cow, I never knew that was a thing! Do you have one? I need a cheap laptop/tablet/something that runs well enough for PDFs with ~200 pages (for pen-and-paper RPGs) and that's about my only use case. My poor little lenovo T60 from 2007 is just not up to the task, even after I took Windows off and put on Mint.

Re: $99 “laptop Shell” for Raspberry Pi or Windows 10 Continuum

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Post by kogepathic »

FilterSweep wrote: post #12
stuartmalcolm wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

http://www.pi-top.com/#/

If they made this for ODROID I'd get this 100%. I wonder if some cutting will allow fitment with a C1.

Physically the Raspberry Pi 2 Model B and ODROID C1+ (note the +) are almost identical.

Only difference is the location of the SD card and the power in port on the ODROID.

Cases are compatible with very minor modification, as long as you don't need uSD access.

Re: $99 “laptop Shell” for Raspberry Pi or Windows 10 Continuum

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Post by Animats »

bydo wrote: post #16
vittore wrote: post #4

I 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.

That seems to be "out of stock" or "discontinued" from Microsoft, or $189 at Acer.

What PC World calls a "budget laptop" is from at $178 to $450.[1] There are lots of low-end tablets below $50, but add a keyboard and the price takes a big jump.

[1] http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2371334,00.asp

Re: $99 “laptop Shell” for Raspberry Pi or Windows 10 Continuum

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Post by tracker1 »

warfangle wrote: post #23

Why do these things always include a discrete touchpad? Why not a series of phone-specific-form-factor caddy that snaps into the laptop where the touch pad is, that you can slide your phone into?

Because that would require OS level integration with the phone.... Even with full screen apps, swiping in from at least one direction is usually the "escape" ... Also, phones come in many form factors, and creating face adapters for multiple devices would be difficult, to say the least... though options for 3d printed services may alleviate some of that.

What I'd really like to see is a Bluetooth standard for full remote input and ui rendering. That would be useful for car stereos as well as with devices such as this.

Re: $99 “laptop Shell” for Raspberry Pi or Windows 10 Continuum

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Post by tracker1 »

viewer5 wrote: post #22
bydo wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Holy cow, I never knew that was a thing! Do you have one? I need a cheap laptop/tablet/something that runs well enough for PDFs with ~200 pages (for pen-and-paper RPGs) and that's about my only use case. My poor little lenovo T60 from 2007 is just not up to the task, even after I took Windows off and put on Mint.

You should be able to find similar hardware in Chromebooks as well... though not sure about PDF usage, they've been great for my parents/grandparents. Many of them you can load a full linux distro on.

Re: $99 “laptop Shell” for Raspberry Pi or Windows 10 Continuum

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Post by gravypod »

analognoise wrote: post #14

I'll support it! ...by buying one after they reach production, assuming the product has good reviews.

This is how everyone should support projects that they find interesting. If someone doesn't have any skills except marketing they will steal your money, if they can make the product and push it into production, you will be able to buy it a few years after they have the idea.
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