Thread 107062676

Hahaha...Yes!

>>107062676 (OP)
why

>>107062682
To work on the go?

>>107062761
>work
kek
you aint doing work on an overheating piece of shit with 45 mins battery life

that keyboard looks nasty

>>107062761
>work
lol, lmao!

>>107062676 (OP)
>tiny physical keyboard
Steve Ballmer once thought tiny physical keyboard was miles better than touchscreen and look what that got him

>>107062795
I have a powerbank in my back pocket.

The hell is this

stealth maidposting thread

>>107063052
If you don't know, you don't belong on /g/.

>>107063050
He's an Aug guys, watch out

>>107062676 (OP)
Looks cool, what is it

>>107062676 (OP)
>maid computer thread

>>107062676 (OP)
your fat fuck fingers are going to be mistyping constantly on those tiny keys

>>107062676 (OP)
I got an older model of this, and I love it just the same.

I'm going to assume this one is slightly larger because the number row was closer.

I bought it for the novelty, not the performance. Gives off "leet hacker" vibes. Great for elevator pitches.

>>107062676 (OP)
Which model is this one?

Bring back the Psion 5mx

>>107062676 (OP)
based but this kind of thing should only be used by slim people

>>107064255
MicroPC 2

>>107062676 (OP)
are zero deflection joysticks really patented? trackpads are so gay.

If these laptops had navigation keys as a column on the rigth side like the HP laptops do, they would be great for browsing the web.

I would love to see a teardown of this device.

See what battery is in it.

Of course like any PC of this form factor Windows is holding it back.

With the GPD MicroPC (the older one, not the 2), one of this flaws is that the screen is treated like a cell phone display. The original MicroPC doesn't have a touch display, but some Linux distros will assume based on the size of the screen, that it is a mobile device and the desktop will appear veritically, unless you tell it at start up to change the orientation.

I've had this issue with my MicroPC when i3wm was my desktop environment. The other issue has been this weird glitch whenever I try to run Hyprland, which has been so terrible, I had to use KDE. I hadn't used KDE in almost 10 years until I started using Arch Linux again on another machine, and KDE is buggy as fuck.

>>107065220
You can scroll using your right thumb or using the middle mouse button on the left. It's also a touchscreen.

>>107065644
The battery is shit. 2.5-7 hours max. Just carry a powerbank.

>>107065644
Installing Linux on it tomorrow.

>>107065220
My biggest problem with this style of keyboard is that on some machines, the Up button and the right Shift Key will often clash with each other. You're trying to use the shift key, but instead you hit Up.

On the other hand, on the orignal GPD Micro PC, you needed to press the Fn key to press colon, semicolon, brackets, and braces.

Chinese Windows 11 can't connect to Windows update btw.

>>107066153
I simply got used to it and stopped making errors.

>>107062676 (OP)
>Still hasn't fixed thermals despite being in the market for A DECADE (10 [TEN] YEARS).
Grim.

>>107065677

That's unfortunate. The GPD MicroPC had some decent run time. OTOH, the MicroPC 2 looks like it doesn't have a switch to control the fan (which I just left on automatic) and has about twice the processing power as the original.

What the 2 needs is a battery pack that could be mounted in the back. The original had a couple of screw holes on the back to be mounted on something (not VESA, but something else, probably a clip).

>>107066202
It now runs i3-n300 8c/8t. It will eat up power and I'm not lowering the TDP in UEFI.

>>107065688
Arch works well. Personally, I'd just replace the harddrive on the inside.

Specs on this device https://gpd.hk/gpdmicropc2techspecs

Apparently it uses a 2280 M.2, which is better because the 2230 that was on the original is a lot harder to find online.

The Steam Deck also uses a 2230 (at least the original one does. Not sure if that was changed in the OLED version.) And then there was something about using a different kind of "key". So it looks like GPD decided to change the layout on the inside a bit to make it a bit easier to make some mods. (There's a good chance there could be a better batter than the one it came with on the market.)

>>107066294
The SSD is chinese, duh? It will die on you randomly. MicroPC 2 supports double sided 2280 nvme so you get go up to 8TB wothout worries.

>>107066294
2230 is limited to 2TB.

>>107062676 (OP)
I'd buy one if they were really cheap just because. But they cost as much as a real laptop. So they are stupid.

>>107066537
It costs 1/3 of what a "real" laptop costs. Stop buying plastic acers.

The first GPD Pocket pc was the only device that was able to replace my jornada 728

>>107062676 (OP)
>>107064975
that's the ick on eck guy right

>>107066557
Your mini laptop is powered by a fucking Intel N250 and it costs 500 bucks. The cpu in that thing gets smoked by cpus that are 10-15 years old.
The new REAL laptop market will give you much more performance for the money, the used market even more so.
You threw money away. Your mini laptop should have been 100-200 bucks.

>>107066674
Wrong! They upgraded it to i3-N300!

>>107066665
hand is not nearly fat enough

>>107067098
maybe he's on a diet

>>107062676 (OP)
I was just about to make a thread about buying one of these.
>>107063641
>>107063052
GPD Pocket 4
>>107064213
8.8" screen on the 4, little bigger than the 3 (8") and much bigger than the 2 (7"). But now it's a 2560x1600 144Hz display. Still IPS, although it's lost active stylus support.

>>107069155
Oh wait it's the little brother, ignore this.

>>107062795
micropc doesn't have either of these problems.

>ctrl-f ARM
>0 results
Do they have ARM variants of these yet? That I would actually consider, I had first gen ASUS EEE PC and would play Ultima 7 on it, it legit was the first netbook IIRC. I would absolutely buy an ARM GPD so it actually has battery life

>>107063050
Solution for a problem that has just been made. Get a normal laptop and it's... all in one!

>>107063050
Is that a powerbank in your back pocket, or did you just happily shidded your pants to see?

>>107066621
Man brought me back.
I low key love the devices and I'm glad this space.is filled with Chinese manufacturers keeping the magic alive.

>>107069346
i don't get why netbooks and umpcs aren't more common these days. we have pretty good chips now.

>>107065677
Why aren’t these things being made with ARM processors that take like half the battery power

>>107069371
ARM Windows is still shit, isn't it? Sure, ARM Linux is decent but GPD isn't shipping that.

>>107069381
>ARM x is y
Fuck off

>>107069381
No idea. I see ARM Windows laptops for sale at Costco and so I figure they’re at least kind of okay by Windows laptop standards
t. Apple enjoyer

>>107069346
keep the chink glazing to a minimum

>>107066401
Honestly, I have more faith in the chinkshit than I do in some Western Digital drive that in in a lot of these cheap computers. Every WD Blue fucking dies.

>>107066409
The GPD MicroPC came out in 2019 IIRC.
I didn't pick up one until 2022.
I just thought it would be a fun little geek toy, but it was actually pretty cool despite it's limited capabilities.

>>107066621
Such a throwback.
KInda shitty.
My backwards part of the country didn't know what WiFi was yet so there was a table with Ethernet cables. I think this one had PCMIA card that was sold separately that likely needed to be plugged into Ethernet or a phone line like the dirty hacker that I was. >:3

Did we really lose ourselves in the last 25 to 30 years or what?

I'm not going to argue, we are in deed broken.

>>107062676 (OP)
Give it back Jose.

What's even the use case for a handheld PC?

>>107069381
>>107069459
Windows on arm isnt so shit these days honestly

I still have my ThinkPad x13s and it's been pretty good after all these years. Battery life is nuts and and there are arm-native versions of Chrome and Discord and Spotify and Visual Studio and clang and such which are my usual set of applications and emulation hasn't been too bad for anything else that doesn't have native windows-arm binaries.

>>107066333
> Netbooks all over again

Yeah, if you believe in selling crap that was rushed to market. Something HP was defintely known for in the 2000s and early 2010s.

Every Jony Ive knock-off style that killed off whatever Y2K aesthetic / Frutiger Aero style any electronic device had for the fake brushed metal, return to matte white/beige/black minimalist bullshit to kill off any saturated colors, even if they were muted. was the result of some half-assed marketing team trying to cash in on Apple and give rise to the trillion-dollar corporation that now rules the world.

And the worst part is most of you bought it.

The product is you.

>>107069847

Because it was cool. :nerd_emoji:

>>107069847
It's a computer that takes up less space.

>>107062761
>To work on the go
To fap on the go!

>>107066621
>jornada 728
They literally named it yo motha?

>>107069847
the gpd pocket 3 (and 4, for that matter) has a module slot that you can put a KVM module inside letting you use the laptop as a portable monitor/keyboard/trackpad all in one device
it also comes with a serial port module, which is based
personally, I bought my pocket 3 mostly for the same reason as >>107069881

>>107069537
the chink glazing will only escalate until amerigroids pull themselves together (will never happen)

>>107069875
This time is different.

>>107062676 (OP)
>>107064975
>>107065663
>>107065688
>>107070548

gpd shit are overpriced, you can build a hackberry pi for ~200-300 bucks

>>107071010
Not x64. I need a real computer for work.

>>107071136
What do you do and how do you can work on such device?

>>107071250
You ssh into a remote server to fix shit. A physical keyboard is simply faster and more precise when you walk.

>>107071370
you can do that on ARM then

>>107071790
Can I run Windows XP and 7 in a VM on ARM?

>>107071010
>use this shit tier thing instead because cheaper
You're a faggot

>>107062870
Touchscreen keyboard is also shit
Anything mobile is shit in general
Of course, making a good physical keyboard is hard, few makers get it right. And the smaller it is, the harder it is.

>>107071370
Literally a skill issue, I can have an entire conversation without looking, in fact, I typed all of this comment without looking.

>>107072572
gpd device are not well built either, most of theme have hinge issue, and the hackberry use refirbushed blackberry keyboard so its infinitely better than the gpd micro pc 1st gen keybord

>>107072510
>running XP/W7 on a 7inch low powered device
probably not but you can hit your head with a hammer you'll end up in the same results (headaches and confusions) faster

>>107063050
lmao

>>107072675
>gpd device are not well built either, most of theme have hinge issue
I have had multiple gpd devices and none have the issue you're describing. Quite the opposite, they're above-average quality for this type of ching-chong tech.
>refirbushed blackberry keyboard so its infinitely better than the gpd micro pc 1st gen keybord
1st gen gpd micro keyboard isn't the greatest, but, like your mother, it was meant to have many devices plugged into it, like a keyboard or a fat dicked full-sized male HDMI cable

>>107062676 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxJ9PM2Hqzg

build quality is shit
I wait for a better N305 UMPC

waitfagging

>>107072949
Nice lies. I have one and it's fine.

>>107069847
handheld linux terminal

>>107073572
*terminal emulator

>>107062676 (OP)
Jesus these things are expensive.

>>107071010
If theres windows for arm id rather run that. We all know this shit is for stm jackpotting.

>>107062761
That's what regular laptops are for you nonce.

>>107072949
thanks for the video, was torn on maybe getting one but now I don't think I will. Some of the guys complaints are a bit meaningless but the ergonomics problems he showed are pretty bad. While these x86 handhelds are pretty cool I feel like they are too expensive. Maybe someday there will be a RK3588 handheld (or any other very well supported arm chip) similar to the gpd micro pc. The market is fucked because the masses only want gaming handhelds and thus we only get joysticks and buttons instead of keyboards on them.

>>107073672
Really? Cheapest new HP is twice the price.

>>107074143
Yeah dude that's 2k USD, I don't know how I could justify that compared to a used Yoga or elitebook or something

I wish the Libretto would be resurrected in a form like this, but actually good and able to justify its price.

>>107072602
> Touchscreen keyboard is also shit
> Anything mobile is shit in general
> Of course, making a good physical keyboard is hard, few makers get it right. And the smaller it is, the harder it is.

Sounds more like a you problem.

>>107073572
>>107073612

Fuck yeah!