[HN Gopher] Laptop-like CrowView Note ready to work with Pi, pho...
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Laptop-like CrowView Note ready to work with Pi, phones and mini-
PCs
Author : Bluestein
Score : 22 points
Date : 2024-08-18 19:01 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| sitkack wrote:
| I have seen devices just like this (keyboard, display, battery)
| on aliexpress.
|
| https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256807367187700.html
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| https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256803000890517.html
| krasin wrote:
| Good point. In addition to being available right now, the
| Aliexpress version has a better battery (10000 mAh vs 5000 mAh
| on Kickstarter).
| kristianp wrote:
| The kickstarter link:
| https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/elecrow/crowview-note-e...
| trte9343r4 wrote:
| This seems to have full support for Raspberry Pi.
|
| - Type-C port supports 5V/5A PD (Pi does not comply with PD
| specs)
|
| - keyboard and trackpad over USB-A
|
| - Micro HDMI input
| mysteria wrote:
| This thing might also be usable in the datacenter as a KVM
| console that can sit in a rack shelf or be carried around by
| technicians. It's certainly more compact than the typical monitor
| and keyboard on a rolling cart.
| kristianp wrote:
| Don't people already have their laptop if they're planning on
| bringing a device with a screen+keyboard? I can see it as useful
| for a dedicated raspberry-pi screen and keyboard, but the adapter
| board looks easily broken if you move around with it.
|
| I'm excited to see the row is keys on the right with Home, pgup,
| pgdn and End. Very useful for someone who spent their early
| computing years on non-gimped keyboards. I had a laptop with that
| layout in about 2009, was easy to adapt to.
| eigenspace wrote:
| Not everyone owns a laptop, nor do they really see a need for
| one very often.
|
| Phones and other devices are plenty powerful these days for
| most tasks most people are doing on laptops. The input format
| is the only reason most people own them.
| eigenspace wrote:
| I came very close to buying a similar device recently (Nexdock),
| but ultimately decided against it. I mostly work from home on my
| desktop computer, and only very occasionally need a portable
| computer. Since I own a SteamDeck with a plenty strong CPU, lots
| of storage and a fully functional Linux environment, it felt like
| such a silly waste to need to buy a whole laptop, when all I
| really wanted was the keyboard, trackpad, and screen.
|
| Ultimately decided against it though, and got a Framework 13
| laptop instead. Less fuss to use it rather than fiddling around
| with connectors and lugging two devices around in tandem. I also
| hope that Framework's modular approach means that this laptop
| won't have been a wasteful purchase and I can keep it as a
| 'laptop of Theseus' for the next decade or so.
| Bluestein wrote:
| > 'laptop of Theseus'
|
| Heh :)
|
| At what point does it cease to be the same laptop and becomes
| something else?
| hagbard_c wrote:
| > At what point does it cease to be the same laptop and
| becomes something else?
|
| Once you replace the last screw (there are no nails in
| Framework laptops).
| SahAssar wrote:
| What makes the last screw the identity? Why not the second
| last screw? What if you put in the second last screw after
| you removed the last? What if I put in a nail? Maybe nail
| some cork to it to make it float?
| wslh wrote:
| With all due respect to hardware startups and the complexity of
| running them: why don't they create another design-factor to put
| your mobile phone, Pi or other devices? The frustrated industrial
| designer in me says that those devices should take an space
| inside the CrowView, not at the sides.
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