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This is shaping up to be a nice machine. Now if only the keyboard travel weren't so shallow...


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That thing looks like it has a damn nice keyboard!

I love devices like this with full-travel keyboards. In the pursuit of the almighty thin, we've sacrificed great keyboards.

It is very nice indeed. I only wish some keyboard accessibility was better.

Except for the slightly odd keyboard (e.g. no Esc), this could be a fantastic machine for a keyboard driven setup.

That's how I use my MBA 11''. XMonad, mutt and friends.

But this one could be better.


it's nice to see a dedicated low profile keyboard maker. I would love to see if it improves typing speed as well as making typing easier for long time typer by design.

Oh, that keyboard…

But... the keyboards.

This would be my perfect machine. Over the past few years I've gone deep down the keyboard rabbit hole. Given it's a device I spend a large proportion of my waking hours in contact with it's a good point to optimise (or at least experiment with) to be honest.

I currently use an iPad and Atreus, but having this in clamshell form would be pure utopia.


Haha, yes, can’t wait. Function keys instead of a gigantic trackpad, too, please.

Yes, that's a valuable observation.

Perhaps, if this laptop can become sustainable they may offer more keyboard options to capture larger market share. If not, competitors will fill the need.


Hook up one of those new projected keyboards, and I think it'll be ready.

Me too! I put together something similar a while ago [1]. It was great fun to build, but doesn't make a very ergonomic computer :)

[1] http://makezine.com/2017/06/15/commute-deck-keyboard-device/


I Think this is fantastic.

Lots of people seem to be moaning about how the keyboard is going to feel aweful. Well so what, its portable got a wide-arsed screen and a printer

Looks fantastic.


Those are great machines too! And what dreamy keyboards.

Yep. Ive spent a lot of time looking at the keyboard space and part of the reason i started the subreddit was that there werent many projects, let alone things I could just buy off the shelf, that were fairly portable and ergonomic.

Theres already a number of travel-friendly high end standard layout keyboards (Ive used the Nuphy f1 for the past year which is nice (and was essential to my portable raised tablet setup), but I miss my Kinesis Freestyle split keyboard that was great but impractical to travel with)


nice keyboard

I love the new keyboard and the super low travel. It definitely took a lot of getting used to.

Keyboard could be a little 'tighter' at this price point.

This computer reminds me of my fondness for the Compaq Presario 615dx a little higher spec, but it was that kind of computer the inch-thick ones. That laptop had a really nice keyboard imo.

Was using Linux Mint and Bluefish/Kate text editor.

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