▲ | danpalmer 15 hours ago | |||||||
This looks neat, but it looks like it's trying to be everything to everyone, and while that's always tempting for a new product, I think it's usually doomed to failure. Why does it support an RS232 port, especially on such a small form factor? Why does it focus so much on local LLM support? Why has it got such a high resolution display? Why has it got swappable ports? Each one of those features makes sense in isolation for some market, but together I'm not sure there's anyone who's the target market for all of them, and because of that there are likely to be better options for each target market. Want to run an LLM? A Mac is going to do that much better with its unified memory and ML acceleration. Want to do sysadmin stuff plugged into an old switch? You probably already have an old Thinkpad for that. etc. | ||||||||
▲ | wvenable 15 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||
Doomed to failure? It's literally the 4th version of this product. | ||||||||
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▲ | rkharsan64 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||
These and other related machines are super popular among people interested in handheld gaming. I agree that the AI label is just for hype, but GPD does make good machines. | ||||||||
▲ | cchance 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||
100% agree, someone shoved a bunch of ideas into a box and ... ya.... its a AI in your pocket, with an external gpu lol, isn't that ... every laptop lol | ||||||||
▲ | ajsnigrutin 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||
This is not GPD's first laptop in this size and design. Yes, many people who buy laptops like this need a physical rs232 port and a kvm port. Yes, you could buy an old thinkpad, and it won't fit in a pocket, you could buy sometehing small, and it'll be slow, or you could buy this and get both. | ||||||||
▲ | karunamurti 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||
What are you talking about, GPD specializes in small form factor computers and has bee a successful player in this area for a while. |