Why don't you use Handheld PC, anon? What's wrong?

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>>57214680
Sony is a x86 trash.
HPCs are powered by SH3/SH4/MIPS/ARM CPUs.

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>>57214665
I'd love a tiny 6-8 inch palmtop just for programming in text mode.

Eink would give it a week's worth of battery life and make it a dream to carry around.

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>>57214665
I do, though. Every day.

>>57214699
>wanting incompatible hardware because of a meme
It's hard enough finding useful software for Pocket PCs

>>57214665
>ENTERASS
Nice branding there, fucko.

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>>57214665
Asus EEE PCs were the best tiny laptops.

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>>57214665
That picture is so misleading.
They call it "handheld pc", yet it's fucking massive.
This thing is atari lynx huge.

Becose im poor
Also raspberry pi mobile pc are meme?

>>57214854
I had one with windows xp and it was shit.

>>57214895
>windows xp

There's your problem.

>>57214823
There is plenty of software out there for ARM systems. Shit I'm on a ARM CPU right now. That the beauty of linux/GNU, it's basically architecture independent. If your architecture is not supported just compile it from source.

>>57214868
Being poor and raspberry pi's go hand in hand.

You could easily hook a battery/screen/small keyboard to a pi. You can even get pre-built screen/battery shields that just plug into the headers.

>>57215002
You could just buy a used thinkpad for $60.
$60 won't even buy you the accessories required to make a raspi laptop usable.

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my redmeme is also my laptop!

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>>57214665
why should I?
surf the web on that tiny screen? can do the same with my phone or laptop and the screen layout makes reading more comfortable.
writing a document? again, with that screen size? better use my laptop or a another pc.
coding? calculator? i already have gear for that.

literally what would the uses be?!

>>57214665
>Are you a normie?
would rather be a normie than a virgin loser like you, anon

>>57215093
Nice bezel.

>>57214857
Wow. Amazing how scale makes a difference in a photo like that. I thought I was looking at a full size qwerty, but it turns out it's a cute little mini computer! Ultraportable.

Because they still haven't come up with one that has a laptop-size keyboard (sans the bezels and trackpad), and a folding screen twice the size of the keyboard. I'd get one right away.

>>57214823
>falling for the 1MB of RAM meme

>>57215093
That's a nice Vtech

>>57214665

I actually like the form factor with the keyboard and the joysticks and would use it if there was one with a good price/performance.

Most of my work is text and terminal I could do most of my work through something like that.

Most of the time I am not even writing new scripts just altering previous work and executing commands.

>>57214665
I had the chance to buy one once for 5 bucks at a habitat for humanity but I didn't

I'll never stop regretting that

>>57214665
>Too small to get actual work done on
>Too big to fit in pocket

What is the purpose of these things? A phone or a netbook with a slightly larger keyboard is better no matter how you think about it.

>>57214741
>tiny 6-8 inch palmtop
You could get modern tablets with detachable keyboards at this point.

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>>57214665
>not using an ultra mobile pc running vista

>order a libretto a little while ago
>it gets here fucking destroyed by the postal service
;_;7
It works fine, but the case around the right hinge is basically gone, so now the screen doesn't open or close right. Suffering.

>>57214665
I do. It's called a cell phone.

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>>57218313
Figured I should probably show my suffering.
I used some hot glue to help support the screen, since this side of the hinge is just a pin that rotates in a (now gone) plastic socket.

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>>57218723
It seems to still open/close nicely if I do it it carefully, but with the hinge being damaged like this it makes me not want to carry it around, so that I can extend its life as long as possible. You know, basically the exact opposite of what I picked it up for.

>>57218313
jesus
i feel sorry for you. my libby needs a new hdd

>>57218822
CF card and a 3$ ide-cf adapter, anon. Works pretty well.

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>>57218844
>>57218822
I bought a couple of these for my UMPCs because those 1.8" HDDs suck and it works pretty well in my SQ1U but not in my UX180P. mSATA SSDs are cheaper than decent CF cards and they should be faster.

>>57214823
I would get a modern version of this because i need a numpad

>>57216813
>>57218329
go back

>>57214665
I'm already using an android phone

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>>57214665
But I do

>>57218990
where'd you get them?

>>57216858
Then it wouldn't be handheld, would it?

>>57214665
I do, it's called Samsung Galaxy.

>>57219215
This is what I got: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Hot-selling-1PC-New-Mini-mSATA-PCI-E-SSD-To-40pin-ZIF-CE-Cable-Adapter-Card/32451933707.html

I also picked up a cheap used 60 gb msata ssd on ebay for like $25

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>tfw the vgn-p is still in the mail

>>57219236
That would depend on what one understands by handheld

>>57219566
What? Hand-held means it can be operated while being HELD in one or two hands... that means size plays an important factor

can these comps run the demon summoning program?

>>57219999
Only if you put a pcmcia network card in them.

>>57214665
What model NEC is that?

>>57214895
Install something lightweight (I have xubuntu on mine), it makes a difference.

>>57214976
Not for ARM palmtops, WinCE software is fucking terribly archived and those old Linux distros on them are useless. On x86 palmtops, though, the sky's the limit.

>That the beauty of linux/GNU, it's basically architecture independent. If your architecture is not supported just compile it from source.
Yeah, ask anyone who's ever run Linux on an SGI system how far the CPU architecture support got them.

>>57219067
Me too, hell I'd be okay with a 100LX since storage options are all I feel lacking in.

>>57214680
>disgusting
>posts picture of a nigger

>>57219547
what's your opinion on the GOLE1?
thinking of getting one.

>that feel when no modern handheld pc with reasonable specs

so what do you guys actually do with your old handheld computers or whatever ultraportables? you have a very low res screen which practically kills its usefulness in modern applications, speaking of which they have so puny processors and especially ram that they can't run anything modern. so they are left as novelty products pretty much, right?

I mean sure using a small font with a super minimal window manager makes good use of the small screen, but the PPI is still pretty bad so even if your processing power is enough to open 4chan (which in itself isn't really an achievement, but shows how little UMPCs can do) you can't really browse comfortably. I'd say the same about phones so before you get hot on my ass about that phones are shitty for browsing too. but at least they have the oomph to function somewhat

eee pcs and shit like that, I had them back in the day when they were the hottest meme... I could actually browse the internet with that awful 11" screen I had in my whatever HP but as time moved on it became so gutless I just gave it away. it was shit for browsing anyway as the screen was so low res at 1024x768 or something. just had a T60 with that resolution and unless I was configuring xorg with the terminal I found it unuseable. even though you had no window borders it was still too little

so when you have something that barely pushes VGA, what do you honestly do with it? sure you can write code but do you really? do you really enjoy typing with that keyboard?

>>57223608
Some of them can be given new life for certain tasks through things like FreeDOS. As for the later atom ones like eeepcs and the dell mini910, they still hold up pretty well if you use things like noscript.

>>57218723
>>57218749

aww man i had an asus laptop that had the same type of hinge failure and that photo pains me. Eventually it broke the other hinge from the increased load.

Absolute Bone Cancer. Never thought a physical fault would kill a computer so completely.

Well my parents still send me Christmas presents even though I live 2000 miles away so maybe I'll ask for a Jornada this year...

>>57223827
I know anon, it's the worst feeling. Especially with something like a libretto. The hot glue is taking up the extra weight it would put on the other hinge for now, but I still wish I could get parts for it. People seem to want like 60$ for dead libretto even, which I'm not paying just for a hinge.

>>57214665
Nigga, what do you think smartphones are?

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>>57214857
>>57214665
I used one of those every day for like six years, until it broke and NEC had stopped making them. I kinda miss it honestly.

Nowadays this is the best I can do, and it runs on MIPS. Does anyone still develop for that?

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are there any practical uses or are they just fucking cool?

I like them either way.

>>57223608
>you have a very low res screen which practically kills its usefulness in modern applications
Don't give a fuck if it's pretty as long as I can read it.
>speaking of which they have so puny processors and especially ram that they can't run anything modern
Don't give a fuck about the version numbers as long as it does it.

There's more to do with a pocket computer than mindless web consumption which a phone is much better for anyway. I love my 95LX as an information management device, and even anemic shitty hardware like that can still solve a lot of problems and keep track of information better than I can.

>>57224081
Could use them as mobile wordproccesors. PDA stuff too, I suppose. It's really up to you.

i'd ride the fuck outta that gay little computer

throwback pepsi uses beet sugar not cane sugar

everyone got fooled

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>>57214665
The better question is why would I need to use one if I have a smartphone and a laptop...

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Hey guys, whats up?

>>57215217
COOL
SHIT
SON
IT'S COOL SHIT, THAT'S WHAT IT IS, THAT'S WHAT IT'S FOR

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>>57214665
>Handheld PC
>Windows

that's why.

>>57225531
you actually just reminded me that I have one of those that is just sitting in the box collecting dust...

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But I do, and its smaller then any of your little laptops

>>57214680
niggers everywhere

>>57225611
Play with it a bit, anon. It's actually a neat little device.

>>57214680
>That actually looks disgusting

>>57221493
I like mine. It's pretty good as long as you understand the limitations. Do you have anything specific planned for it? I pretty much only got it because it's x86 and has four usb ports.

>>57214680
oh ma goodness

>>57225769
It's really not.

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>>57225927
Well aren't you a fuckin downer. Why the fuck did you buy it then?

>>57225531
That doesn't count, it's actually capable of running software written in 2010 or newer

(I like mine too though)

>>57214665
I always wanted one, but there was the point when I realized that I might as well just use a normal laptop for times when I needed to travel and would have a place to setup on occasion, and I'd carry my Palm everywhere for really mobile computing (it was a cheap-ass m100, like literally fucking everyone else had) whenever I needed to do shit on the go.
like, this was back in 2001 or 2002

bought a netbook in like 2010 for proper on the go computing -- for straight computing tasks, it was fine (mind you, I'd done a lot of shit like 3D modeling on a laptop from 2001, so the netbook was head and shoulders faster than a lot of machines I'd used around the time, I dunno why the fuck people complain about how weak they were unless they're all really fucking impatient, apart from the bit that's below)
it actually sucked kind of hard for web browsing because lol page bloat (which is kind of embarrassing, since not even two years before, I'd been browsing the internet just fine on that 2001-era laptop I had that gave up the ghost in 2009)

In modern times, it turns out that you can do a stupid amount of computing on a phone.
typing sucks, but you can pretty much autocorrect everything but code and have what's effectively tab completion for every word, and you wouldn't be coding much on an HPC anyway
really, with a graphing calculator emulator and a good text editor, I can do a shit-ton from it, even offline
and you can do tiny bits of scripting for little shit
and it's actually kind of decent for browsing the internet with and doing normal consumer shit with

the phone as a useful handheld computer instead of just a calling and internet device is a realization that I've only come to in the last couple of months, I'd been missing the software I had on my Palm years ago without realizing that yes, I can actually do that sort of job on my phone, and do it better

>>57226002
I fell for the shills unfortunately. They were everywhere on here like around a year ago briefly.

I'll be ordering a GPD Win this friday so I can be with my son while gaming, when he gets old enough it'll be his, until then it should work nice as a htpc too

>>57214665
cool super ultra wide cinema screen

>>57223943
>>57223943

Man try two part epoxy (araldite) You will be supprised how controllable and gooey it can be with out getting into the hinge and how it can basically conform to the outer plastic case

I was in a hangar at the time and used some special potting compound and after a coat of paint it was a seamless fix.

tldr: hot glue is not going cut it.

>>57214665
What would I use it for? It's a meme.

>>57223386
>implying they were reasonable

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>>57223386
Honestly, the smart phone is the closest thing to a handheld pc we've gotten to date. Fucking quad core, flash memory, crazy expansive storage options, all sorts of wireless connectivity options, hd video film image and microphone built in, they play video games, etc etc

Still crazy tracking devices tho...

>>57214680
would smash

>>57227047
>specs and games
none of that was really what made handheld PCs cool or interesting
it was the fact that they actually felt and acted like a real computer instead of a handheld advertising delivery system, smartphones really suck at feeling like anything other than a toy

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>>57227833
>handheld advertising delivery system

>>57214699
I used to have one of these, a 720 I think. I really wish there was a modern equivalent.

>>57225831
just thinkin' about something to replace my ASUS R2H.
expecting it to have nice battery life and a possibility to use 3/4G service.

>>57229510
No internal 3G/4G. You'd have to tether it. There are enough USB ports (including one "internal" port) and there is enough room in the case to mod something in though.

>>57227047
Also the majority lack proper keyboards.

>>57225742
haha used to love playing runescape!! rock on bro :-)

>>57214680
>blackqt67.jpg
Where are the other 66?

>>57219208
What is that?

>>57232708
Vaio VGN-UX180P

>>57232350
>Also the majority lack proper keyboards.
What is a bluetooth keyboard..

>>57232883
what is shit.............

>>57232883
clunky half-assed garbage propagated by faggots with stockholm syndrome?

>>57219208
How much did you pay for it, anon?

>>57233947
$325. Was going to stop at $300 but got caught up in a bidding war

>>57214665

If I could find a good current one which I can ideally run BSD on I would.

Suggestions please?

>>57220704
Not him but got any good recommendation for a 10" netbook with good battery life?

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>>57214665
Dragonbox pyra.

>>57237213
Is that thing actually out yet?

>>57232487
Yeah been playing since 2004, still has a pretty big userbase even now

>>57214665
I have an X61t and its as small as i feel like going.

>>57214665
Why should I use that over the Kindle Fire I have right beside me?

>>57219730
y that definition my request would still e handheld

>>57237213
A thick, ugly hipster toy.

>tfw you want a GPD Win even though you have a GPD XD already.

It just looks so cool!

£280 is pretty steep though. Then again it's the same price as a cheapo laptop.

>>57224081
>real
>sugar

Pick one.

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>>57218286
That """"keyboard""""

>>57224081
What's practical to you? There's plenty of abandonware out there that can enable them to solve all kinds of problems, there's plenty of text editors and compilers to choose from, they're decently expandable. Keyboard's a little cramped and the mouse design is a little lackluster but if it doesn't bother you then they're still just fine for a lot of information processing tasks or light development or whatever.

>>57218286
I want to cry that is so beautiful
I want to spend years with you baby girl

>>57236487
Panasonic Let's Note CF-RZ5

>>57239733
All they're saying is that they're using cane sugar instead of high fructose corn syrup

>>57214665
>using the term normie
GTFO normalfag

>>57225531
i saw this kickstarter but it is such a visual turn off. it doesn't even look comfortable to use, how are the ""buttons""?

>>57244018
It's garbage. The appeal is it's cheap. I mean it's definitely trash for any purpose though.

I saw some people in a thread talking about getting aircrack-ng on it but the wireless is too weak to send packets reliably further than like 3 feet.

>>57238352
>he says in the handheld pc thread
why are you here?

>>57214665
But I do use Microsoft Surface™

>>57242800
Where to buy?