• 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬@lemmy.ml
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    29 days ago

    The company’s website is currently collecting email signups for early-bird pricing. Pricing has not been announced. Neither have display resolution, exact dimensions, weight, or the availability of expansion ports.

    So all we know is that some company wants to sell something at some point in the future.

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    29 days ago

    Wow, coding on the worst physical topology/topography for the kind of input you need to perform.

    A programmer needs to type fast, navigate the cursor rapidly and with easily attained precision, and needs the information displayed on a large screen so that they don’t go blind working on the code. This machine is a friggin nightmare.

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      29 days ago

      you’d think so as i did, yet people wanted to do it on their blackberry’s back when i did front line tech support.

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          28 days ago

          it was my job back then to enable them as much as possible, so i looked for their perforce submits for follow up and every single one of them did.

          most of them did it while on ultra long flights to korea/japan/singapore/tiawan/isreal from san francisco too… on a blackberry. 🤷‍♂️

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              27 days ago

              that was the logic that most of them used and i get it a little bit if you’re on 20+ hour flight when laptop batteries lasted less than 2 hours back then, but the thought of writing code in one of these makes my hand hurt:

              old skool

              i supposed it wasn’t so bad for the python or ruby guys, but they were in the minority at the time. most were writing in java and that seems painful with all of the non-romantic characters that it requires wo an ide; atleast this lini device has full keyboard w curly braces.

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    17 days ago

    If anyone is looking for a something like this that they can buy today for a reasonable price, check out the GPD Micro PC 2.