Thread: Alternative history: What if Jolla never existed?
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2015-11-24 , 20:10
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Originally Posted by pycage View Post
Instead I now have a 10" netbook (that originally came with MeeGo but now runs Elementary) with TN panel and a noisy fan running Linux and a battery that lasts for two hours if lucky...
If that's the Dublin Ideapad, please, do the world a favor and burn it with fire! Or nuke it from orbit!

I've never seen a better example of a reasonable idea ruined by the poorest execution possible. I mean, swivable screen with sth like 0.1deg viewing angle????

Originally Posted by pycage View Post
In an alternative history, we wouldn't have tablets, but the netbook hype would have continued and the devices became better and better.
I'd would said that hybrids are basically the realization of that dream, today. They're small (a rare thing these days), quite portable, decent batteries, low power CoreMs/Atoms, and most even with unlocked bootloader out of the box.

As I mentioned on an earlier page, this is another of the reasons I now have a Surface running Gentoo and have all but abandoned the "mobile computing" dream.


My dinosaur dream:
I'd still probably buy something sized like a 3DS XL, as long as it ran full x86_64 and thus I could reuse my favourite PC OS/distro on it without much work. Input methods: trackpoint, stylus, keyboards.
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