Alphane Moon@lemmy.world to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish · 2 days agoEnthusiast mulls reviving Sony's retro micro PC — Orange Pi CM5 planned as mainboard upgradewww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up140arrow-down12cross-posted to: sbcs@lemux.minnix.devhardware@lemmy.world
arrow-up138arrow-down1external-linkEnthusiast mulls reviving Sony's retro micro PC — Orange Pi CM5 planned as mainboard upgradewww.tomshardware.comAlphane Moon@lemmy.world to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square6fedilinkcross-posted to: sbcs@lemux.minnix.devhardware@lemmy.world
minus-squareMonkeMischief@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up10·2 days agoI too laughed at “enthusiast mulls.” That being said, I too, am an enthusiast who’d love to see these handheld-like PCs come back.
minus-squarewjrii@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-22 days agoThis remains one of my favorite pieces of 21st century industrial design, not just the basic slider with keyboard form factor, but the little things that came together to make it such a good implementation.
minus-squareMonkeMischief@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up3·12 hours agoThat is REALLY nice. Let’s have that, but a full-blown pocket Linux machine with a decent resolution and a cell-modem and let’s gooo! The term “internet appliance” is pretty awful though lol.
I too laughed at “enthusiast mulls.”
That being said, I too, am an enthusiast who’d love to see these handheld-like PCs come back.
This remains one of my favorite pieces of 21st century industrial design, not just the basic slider with keyboard form factor, but the little things that came together to make it such a good implementation.
That is REALLY nice.
Let’s have that, but a full-blown pocket Linux machine with a decent resolution and a cell-modem and let’s gooo!
The term “internet appliance” is pretty awful though lol.