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That looks amazing.

... For 2008.

Ooof. After having a pinephone, I know what 2 or 3GB of RAM can handle these days. Not much, really. Specially the moment you open the browser. I'm going to pass from any project that doesn't attempt to at least get close to this decade's standards.

Can I just send you five years worth of „we’re sorry we’re behind schedule” messages and then ghost you instead? If so send me $159

I see a lot of negativity in the comments. And yeah, this thing probably isn’t something I’m going to get, but at least they are trying something that isn’t a generic rectangle of glass like all the others. I miss the days of fun gadgets.

A little worried that with swapping those components like that, it's trying to be too many things for too many different groups of people instead of one exact thing.

I think all I really want is something shaped like this with a keyboard, like an old Blackberry that could be used as a terminal.

yet an other hardware from 10+ years ago. here we have an ARM Cortex-A53 from what it seems to be 2012. Maybe it is actually compatible with OpenGL 3...

Sorry, if it sounds too good to be true, it usually is. If you can't make this stuff at scale, no way you could sell it at $160 a unit.

I wonder who this is made for?

The article calls it a "smartphone sized pocket computer", but that describes smartphones too; they already are pocket computers. And they've had decades of design and development behind them.

So... This device has a tiny touchscreen, and a keyboard, rather than having the whole thing being a touchscreen. So instead it has a modular bottom half... Which... Sounds like it's trying to solve a problem that would've been a problem in like... The 90s, maybe, but has been solved by using... A touchscreen that can change the type of input it is flexibly, like smartphones do.

It can't call, like a smartphone, despite being a smartphone sized device. It has USB A 2.0 sockets and an Ethernet socket... Which makes it once again sound incredibly out-dated, like a device found in a time capsule, because USB C is smaller and faster than USB A 2.0, and can potentially be used for damn near anything. Which includes connecting to the Internet.

Its battery looks very weak. Its CPU looks very weak. It has a tiny amount of RAM, and a tiny amount of storage. It is outclassed by any affordable, midrange smartphone, at nearly the same price too (if you avoid big brand names).

this would have been really cool 15 years ago

I'll wait for retail if ever. I learnt my lesson about backing tech based kickstarters.

3gb RAM? 32gb emmc? This feels a bit like a raspberry pi project. Up the specs at least 6gb to at least no[t look like yet another microdeck with emulators, please... I like the concept, but as is, it leaves plenty to be desired

I've learned not to get my hopes up with kickstarters but I'll keep an eye on this one

I'm intrigued. And although I read the article, I'm not entirely sure who or what this is for. It's cool, but... what?

I like the form factor, but seeing the issues with supply on hackberrypi and uconsole, im hoping they dont have the same issue. Lots of people like that form factor (including myself).

I like how Linux has been picking up lately. Finally.

It looks cool and all, but its probably going to have like 400mb of ram and an rp2040 like every other linux handheld device.

I'm intrigued simply because it's not Android but the keyboard and gamepad are better done with existing products like the click keyboard and Gamesir.

I would really love a return to a concept where you have a tablet that docks into a full size laptop form factor. Even better if the dock can have a graphics card.

Those look really cool, I would be pleasantly surprised if they ever came to fruition

Pretty neat, but probably not something I'd buy

Well that looks cool. I just hope I would have use for such device.

I wonder how they plan to keep updating this Mechanix OS after initial sales slow down