Honestly, I’m just surprised this is the first time someone has dared to put a phone SOC in a laptop chassis.
I’m probably missing something fundamental, but isn’t this just a Chromebook?
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megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Honestly, I’m just surprised this is the first time someone has dared to put a phone SOC in a laptop chassis.
It seemed kind of obvious to me that a laptop experience on phone hardware (but like… with a bigger screen, keyboard and mouse/trackpad) was sort of perfect for most use cases. I just assumed that it would come in the form of a phone docked in to a hollowed out laptop. The core issue was just that the software was awful with such a set up. Apple just kind of bypassed that by having their whole OS and everything on it switch over to ARM and just running a non-mobile OS.
It seemed like Google is kind of edging that way by merging chrome OS in to android. And windows was maybe flailing that direction with windows on arm… but… I think that was mostly just them trying to copy Apple without really thinking to hard about it.
Honestly, I’m just surprised this is the first time someone has dared to put a phone SOC in a laptop chassis.
I’m probably missing something fundamental, but isn’t this just a Chromebook?
There are some Snapdragon laptops but they’re not exactly the same as the snapdragon phone SoCs and they tend to be expensive
Apple is the only one with the vertical to do it
dustyData@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Lol, this is far from the first time this has been done. Gotta give it to Apple marketing, they can still get away with “inventing” 5 year old technology in front of the gullible crowds.