I wish those little PCs would make a comeback.
But smartphones have changed that, largely.
There is a desire to go back to dumb flip phones, though, and I wonder if that could help bring small form factor PCs back.
Comment on GPD Win Mini Review: Defying the Laws of Physics
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Here’s what the device is if (like me) you didn’t know what it was (and, if, maybe like me, you didn’t want to watch some random video).
It seems to me that those machines are poor PCs and poor Steam Deck wannabes.
However, they do remind me of my favourite PC of all time, the fabulous Vaio C1 PictureBook by Sony. Mine had 64 Megs of memory and 12Gigs of disk. And, you bet it ran Linux like a champ (Mandrake, with KDE).
Okalaydokalay@lemm.ee 8 months ago
grayhaze@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Without GPD and others, there likely wouldn’t even be a Steam Deck. They really paved the way and made the case for handheld PCs, which proved to Valve that there was a market worth investing in.
Bondrewd@lemmy.world 8 months ago
You clearly havent looked at their micropc and pocket 3 with the serial port and display in capabilities. Pretty awesome.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 8 months ago
True, I hadn’t, and it certainly is.
OptiZonion@lemmy.world 8 months ago
To be fair, the GPD brand has been around for years so it’s not like they saw the SteamDeck release and tried to profit on it. They’ve been THE brand that has been trying to push the portable gaming pc paradigm.
It doesn’t speak of the quality of the products nor the viability of their solutions, just a reminder they’re not a “random” brand.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Fair.
I see they have a number of little machines that can come in very handy in a lot of cases. So while I’m not convinced by that one specifically, it doesn’t reflect on the whole lineup. A lot of their gadgets are quite nice.
However I’m more convinced by their “tech in a pocket” systems than by the gaming ones.