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Enthusiast mulls reviving Sony's retro micro PC — Orange Pi CM5 planned as mainboard upgrade (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

This remains one of my favorite pieces of 21st century industrial design, not just the basic slider with keyboard form factor, but the little things that came together to make it such a good implementation.

[–] MonkeMischief 3 points 1 week ago

That is REALLY nice.

Let's have that, but a full-blown pocket Linux machine with a decent resolution and a cell-modem and let's gooo!

The term "internet appliance" is pretty awful though lol.