Is there a purpose for this form factor nowadays?
Obviously a decade ago it made sense when you wanted computing power and didn't want a huge machine, but seeing as what a phone / tablet can do (especially if you have external peripherals) and how small / light laptops are, is there a need for this?
Is the GPD pocket / Vaio P nostalgia just people wanting to ironic retro devices or is this an actual space that needs filling
What's that netbook with the clitoris mouse between the spacebar?
>>61755196
gpd pocket, the newest and most boring
>>61754865
Nah it just harkens back to an era where you thought mobile computers would be mobile computers instead of the shit we got with smartphones.
If I want something light to carry with me and type on, my Aspire One with a light distro still does the job just fine and has hella long battery life. I don't want to use my phone for this stuff, and a tablet is a pain in the ass to do real writing on.
>>61754865
Not really. With the occasional /g/-ish exception, people who need a proper keyboard want a trackpad, and people who need small and portable above all else have a use case where a touchscreen is more comfortable to use than a keyboard.
Something with a vaio p sized keyboard but with some kind of foldable / otherwise compact 12" screen would be nice.
>>61754865
nope, UMPCs are a dead meme
anything you "need" a real keyboard for, for any length of time, you are not going to want to use anything smaller than a x220, maybe a netbook if you just need to bang out a few lines of text / SSH or whatever, but if that's all your doing you might as well use a phone, maybe with a bluetooth keyboard.
>>61756861
>you are not going to want to use anything smaller than a x220
This kind of autism just makes me chuckle.
"No, what's working well for you is wrong! This is what you like!"
No, no I don't.
>>61757168
Well is an x220 too big for you to carry around?
>>61757588
It's too big to fit in my pocket.
>>61754865
I personally use a cheap tablet with one of those chinkshit leather cases that has a keyboard on the inside, and I like it a lot.
The keyboard is kinda shitty, but way better than typing on the screen.
I didn't see the point of this kinda stuff before when I was a neet, but nowadays I have very little time to spend sitting in front of my desktop.
It's good for typing, reading stuff, watching netflix and playing a few games.
The point of it to me is having a portable, lightweight device, with a nice battery life, that I'm able to take anywhere without making my bag any heavier.
I wish I could install real Linux on it, but then I would lose access to a few android apps that I use a lot.