Pocket 4: Modular full-featured Handheld AI PC
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Pocket 4: Modular full-featured Handheld AI PC
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Re: Pocket 4: Modular full-featured Handheld AI PC
#2I was skeptical of the "AI" but it has 64gb of RAM and the Ryzen AI 9 HX 37 CPU, supposedly has good LLM performance [1]. So yea, its an interesting device.
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/1gfr60l/ryzen_ai_300_t...
Re: Pocket 4: Modular full-featured Handheld AI PC
#3It's a nice little netbook. But does anybody still want or need a netbook? Especially a rather expensive one.
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#4This looks neat, but it looks like it's trying to be everything to everyone, and while that's always tempting for a new product, I think it's usually doomed to failure.
Why does it support an RS232 port, especially on such a small form factor? Why does it focus so much on local LLM support? Why has it got such a high resolution display? Why has it got swappable ports?
Each one of those features makes sense in isolation for some market, but together I'm not sure there's anyone who's the target market for all of them, and because of that there are likely to be better options for each target market. Want to run an LLM? A Mac is going to do that much better with its unified memory and ML acceleration. Want to do sysadmin stuff plugged into an old switch? You probably already have an old Thinkpad for that. etc.
Re: Pocket 4: Modular full-featured Handheld AI PC
#5This looks neat, but it looks like it's trying to be everything to everyone, and while that's always tempting for a new product, I think it's usually doomed to failure. Why does it support an RS232 port, especially on such a small form factor? Why does it focus so much on local LLM support? Why has it got such a high resolution display? Why has it got swappable ports? Each one of those features makes sense in isolati…
100% agree, someone shoved a bunch of ideas into a box and ... ya....
its a AI in your pocket, with an external gpu lol, isn't that ... every laptop lol
Re: Pocket 4: Modular full-featured Handheld AI PC
#6This looks neat, but it looks like it's trying to be everything to everyone, and while that's always tempting for a new product, I think it's usually doomed to failure. Why does it support an RS232 port, especially on such a small form factor? Why does it focus so much on local LLM support? Why has it got such a high resolution display? Why has it got swappable ports? Each one of those features makes sense in isolati…
Doomed to failure? It's literally the 4th version of this product.
Re: Pocket 4: Modular full-featured Handheld AI PC
#7This looks neat, but it looks like it's trying to be everything to everyone, and while that's always tempting for a new product, I think it's usually doomed to failure. Why does it support an RS232 port, especially on such a small form factor? Why does it focus so much on local LLM support? Why has it got such a high resolution display? Why has it got swappable ports? Each one of those features makes sense in isolati…
This is not GPD's first laptop in this size and design.
Yes, many people who buy laptops like this need a physical rs232 port and a kvm port.
Yes, you could buy an old thinkpad, and it won't fit in a pocket, you could buy sometehing small, and it'll be slow, or you could buy this and get both.
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#9Regardless of the success of this crowdfunding round, I bet they still provide supporting downloads of drivers & executables via zip files served from Google drive.
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#10This would be pretty nice to carry around during oncall shifts, albeit, probably not the most productive device to have in the event you get paged.