Full AMD Ryzen PC in a Folding Mini Keyboard (opens in new tab)

Im looking forward to a new hybrid work generation computing device.

Setup: A monitor keyboard and mouse and a dock with a USB C port.

Device: 1hr battery powered mini pc/device with USB c.

Use: Take device with me to work, school, or workstation outside of home. Work a few hours. And wrap up and leave.

This device can be a phone too! Like all amazing tech, I feel the opportunity for such devices will pass before it reaches to market.

Actual link to the product presentation/demo: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Dz421B7zi/

I've been thinking that tablet on a stick probably has better ergonomics than a laptop for programming in the garden. This would be an interesting variant on that.

Maybe more importantly though, how feasible is the glasses suggestion? Are any now a reasonable proposition for a large emacs instance?

The suggestion to use AR glasses with this keyboard computer feels very Ghost-in-the-Shell cyberpunk to me. Stepping onto a train and you find some guy with glasses sitting near the train door staring blankly at other passengers while typing furiously on the keyboard. Looks a bit creepy. After a moment it's revealed he has an AR display and he's writing an email or whatever.

...why do I feel nostalgic for a cyberpunk dystopia?

This would be great when using a TV as remote display via AirPlay or Windows Screen-Mirroring etc. Unfortunately these things never works satisfactorily for me.

Possibly vaporware, though. Sorry for sounding so skeptic, I've seen too many announcements of cool devices I'd buy that later turned out to be twice as expensive as initially suggested, or they simply never became available anywhere in Europe. Companies should only announce devices when they can be actually bought.

Its crazy that ten years ago this would have an intel atom SoC with broken 32-bit EFI that causes linux support headaches. Today its got a Ryzen SoC that blows my 2 year old HP Probook out of the water.

Honestly, it's a real shame this doesn't have HDMI. I'd definitely get one for travelling if it did as it's rare to find a hotel room that doesn't have a TV with accessible HDMI port. Certainly it seems like a better option than an NUC and separate keyboard in terms of overall size and not needing as many cables, although I guess maybe it'd have the potential to feel bulky compared to a wireless keyboard as well as being tethered to the TV.

EDIT: Some more details here: https://videocardz.com/newz/pocket-sized-foldable-keyboard-i...

Those are pretty beefy spec for the listed price. I may be drooling a little over here.

I don't really get why you'd waste space on a battery in a device like this. It's going to be used plugged in, so who needs it? I know there's the idea of AR goggles but like, c'mon. Nobody really believes that will be more common than plugging it into a screen do they?

Man that's cool. Not for me personally as I need a display and not glasses, but it's cool we have so much computer power in such portable formats now.

I love that we have pretty powerful laptops with 20 hours of battery that only weigh a pound or so. I remember 20 years ago lugging around a 2kh brick with only 2 hours of battery.