Sentio, an Android Laptop Dock
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After seeing the site. I think it is looking to solve a problem that doesn't exist.
If I have to carry around a fake netbook, I may as well carry a real one. And I don't have to dock it to the side of the screen.
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@wrx7m said in Sentio, an Android Laptop Dock:
After seeing the site. I think it is looking to solve a problem that doesn't exist.
If I have to carry around a fake netbook, I may as well carry a real one. And I don't have to dock it to the side of the screen.
That sums up my feelings. There's no problem being solved, what I have today is better in every way from what I can tell.
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@fiyafly said in Sentio, an Android Laptop Dock:
This I get some, but Chromebooks focus on this too. So two things approaching the same problem in two ways.
My concern wraps back around to power.
Power meaning performance, not battery. Sure. But neither the phone nor the Chromebook have much power, but both probably have more than you imagine. basically, if the phone is good enough, the Chromebooks are good too. Of the Chromebooks don't cut it, the phone won't either. Chromebooks come with some serious power if you want (up to i7 and 16GB RAM) but those are pricey.
Although as an IT person or developers, I find even entry level Chromebooks (maybe not the 2GB models, but the modern 4GB one with OP1s) are powerful enough for essentially any IT task.
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@fiyafly said in Sentio, an Android Laptop Dock:
You could still have redundancy with one device. Keep a spare.
That's not a single device. Now it is two devices that I have to keep PLUS the attachments to make them useful. Instead of my spare being $180, now my spare is $800. And now my spare is useless when not in use instead of being a useful secondary form factor.
I think this line of thinking shows how bad the single device / Sentio approach is in reality. We start doing insane things to make the appearance of convenience viable.
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Canonical already tried this and gave up... I'm curious to see if this succeeds. Honestly, I think it'll fail. This is even clunkier.
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I kinda like the idea, but I hate the way they mount the phone. It looks really cheesy.
But for $129 i think it's a not a bad price
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@irj said in Sentio, an Android Laptop Dock:
I kinda like the idea, but I hate the way they mount the phone. It looks really cheesy.
But for $129 i think it's a not a bad price
For a few dollars more, you can get an whole Asus Chromebook, no phone required.
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@irj said in Sentio, an Android Laptop Dock:
I kinda like the idea, but I hate the way they mount the phone. It looks really cheesy.
But for $129 i think it's a not a bad price
It was $150 when I looked, which seems awful given the $179 price of a great Chromebook.
