Sentio, an Android Laptop Dock
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@fiyafly said in Sentio, an Android Laptop Dock:
This seems to be the beginning of trying to answer "What if you only had to worry about one device for everything, and what if you could take it with you?"
And the answer for me is...
I REALLY don't want to be dependent on just one device. And I don't want to have to take everything with me all the time.
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@scottalanmiller said in Sentio, an Android Laptop Dock:
@fiyafly said in Sentio, an Android Laptop Dock:
This seems to be the beginning of trying to answer "What if you only had to worry about one device for everything, and what if you could take it with you?"
And the answer for me is...
I REALLY don't want to be dependent on just one device. And I don't want to have to take everything with me all the time.
You could still have redundancy with one device. Keep a spare.
As far as taking everything with you... What all are you taking with you?
Phone and laptop? With the concept that they seem to be envisioning, it wouldn't change that at all, per se. It would just all run from the same system.
Data? Data should be backed up in some form or another. Even with sensitive data, there are solutions for that.@scottalanmiller said in Sentio, an Android Laptop Dock:
@fiyafly said in Sentio, an Android Laptop Dock:
It looks like the main idea is unification of devices. I don't know about you guys, but synchronizing settings between programs that I use at work and at home can become somewhat of a hassle. I might have programmed a shortcut in MobaXterm at home, and went to use it at work and realized I didn't have it configured yet. That's a bit worse when we're talking about new computers starting from scratch. It's always a mild undertaking to ensure my personalization of devices gets synchronized across the board. Especially when work is not BYOD. I have two phones on my hip right now- work and personal. Work settled on Apple (I was very unhappy, but that's a different story) and I run an android. Windows PC with a Linux VM. Winows PC at home with a Pi running CentOS at home. Then, work laptop. Home laptop died and I haven't replaced it yet.
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. Then, once that is resolved, because I feel like there is something out there that does solve this, then we move over to compatibility. Then it becomes a contender against Windows, Mac, and Linux. The reason I don't run linux at home right now is due to some compatibility that caused issues the last time I tried. I adamantly want to check into that again, but that was where it was left off. Mac.. I'm not a fan of apple at all. Windows is the de facto standard. This actually displeases me more than anything, but that is a different discussion.
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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.
