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IMHO, for devs, a modular laptop would be more appropriate: a display panel, a CPU/GPU box, mouse/keyboard, a battery pack... and the bag designed to carry those components.



Check out the Pockit that was on here a few days ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3F9OtH2Xx4&list=UU49EYw900L...


What could be really cool is a lunchbox portable computer with a keyboard that closes on the front: https://www.flickr.com/photos/befuddledsenses/493303864

I think you could make it pretty small but still large enough to fit two small PCI-express cards and replaceable/upgradeable RAM modules. It would be a good format for tinkerers, very amenable to having replaceable parts and being user-serviceable. Throw some GPIO in there and you would have a real winner for the maker crowd.

EDIT: someone build this lunchbox portable with a raspberry pi and it looks really awesome: https://hackaday.com/2020/06/09/lunchbox-cyberdeck-is-a-tast...




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