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dusted wrote: post #7

I can't even imagine the pain in neck, eyes and fingers from using this for any amount of time, looks kind of fun though, but, useless

Having the display at some angle would dramatically improve the ergonomics. I guess joints+ffc would increase cost quite a bit, but even a fixed angle would be improvement

Re: DevTerm - An Open Source Portable Terminal for Every Dev

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Post by wffurr » Mon, Nov 23, 2020, 12:57 PM UTC

dusted wrote: post #7

I can't even imagine the pain in neck, eyes and fingers from using this for any amount of time, looks kind of fun though, but, useless

Seems terribly unergonomic. A laptop is bad enough. This doesn’t even have a full size keyboard. What is with that layout?

I like the concept, but it needs to be two pieces - screen and keyboard - so they can be positioned appropriately, and it needs a full size keyboard with a track point.

You could just about hack something up like this with a tablet that can run Linux and a Thinkpad keyboard, like this one: https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/accessories-and-monitors/new-ar...

Re: DevTerm - An Open Source Portable Terminal for Every Dev

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Post by RaycatRakittra » Mon, Nov 23, 2020, 12:57 PM UTC

This looks sweet.

To me, the physicality of one of the "fantasy consoles" mixed with a bit more power might make for some interesting games and projects. The only thing I would wonder is if they could tilt that screen up a bit like an AlphaSmart.