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HP stuffed a PC into a keyboard. We took it for a spin (www.theregister.com)
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It's not much cheaper than an equivalent laptop, so who's this for, exactly?

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[โ€“] CannedYeet@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I've thought about this dual desker problem. It always seemed wasteful lugging around a whole laptop and not really needing the battery and carrying around an extra inferior keyboard and screen.

My thought is to run off a live SSD. My idea was also to introduce a layer of virtualization and a copy-on-write filesystem with FS level syncing for backup. Then you'd have a full disk image backup so you could pick up right where you left off in a VDI if you lost the SSD.

[โ€“] GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I used to carry around an 11" laptop when I had to give a bunch of presentations in unfamiliar conference rooms. It was the main reason why I switched to Apple around 15 years ago for my travel laptop (couldn't get Linux-friendly hardware with good battery life and seamless display/audio support over DVI/DP/HDMI and whatever audio setup they'd have for me) while still keeping a "main" Linux laptop for around the house and a headless server sitting next to my router.

I'd love to have that 11" form factor again, with modern thunderbolt/USB4 docking stations at my work desk, home office, and whatever desk I might hotel at or whatever. I rarely used the small screen or keyboard but it was nice to have that option on the move (like in an economy plane seat).