NanoraptorThe thinkfriend is the only portable computer that can love you back. It is never too slow, too hot, low on battery nor does it fail to boot. It simply is, and is very good at it.
brennen
cleanycloth@NanoRaptor you have no idea how much I would pay for one of these
sortius 
@NanoRaptor that made me sad for my Psion
[object Object]@NanoRaptor the thinkfriend is all of my computer architecture goals when I’m tinkering with implementing SoCs on FPGAs
Beeps My Me At You CutelyStyle@NanoRaptor I am desperate for a computer exactly like this
Tyler K. NothingI agree. This is something that needs to be made real. @NanoRaptor, you are a deity of the highest order.
AG7GM Dan@NanoRaptor Long ago I really wanted an HP Omnibook so bad. Altho this is fiction it reminds me of it..
the roamerI loved ny Omnibook 800. Bought new in 1996. Was still working perfectly when I lost it to burglary, many years later. Best designed laptop ever.
LIΞBΔCH@NanoRaptor I saw that picture and let out a little sigh, like I just saw an unbearably cute kitten or puppy.
I would want such a thing to exist.
@NanoRaptor Also; how long before we start to see AI generated pages claiming to review it?
Kirby 
want
Anonymous Freak@NanoRaptor This makes me miss my Sony PictureBook and ThinkPad at the same time.
Jes - Hedgehog Edition @AnonymousFreak @NanoRaptor LenovoThinkBook
Maya@NanoRaptor A classic Thinkpad crossed with a Toshiba Libretto?
Yes please.
charly 
⚧️@NanoRaptor
I'd simply love the hell out of it.
Only downside of this is: Not much space for stickers ^^
I'd simply love the hell out of it.
Only downside of this is: Not much space for stickers ^^
Armando@NanoRaptor ahhh. This triggers my geas (gear acquisition syndrome). Would by this in an instant.
Bart
ThinkPad-Museum@NanoRaptor I wish we’d have a #ThinkPad like this 🥺
Anthony Sorace@NanoRaptor I think about this one so often. This is what I want in a computer.
7heoJust like everything that loves us, this is made up.
notanowl
Make 
🍁@NanoRaptor I've often considered this form factor for a Cyberdeck. 😋
Not a Spring Onion@NanoRaptor
I think people are getting the dimensions wrong.
Mine is neither "cute" nor "sits snugly in my back pocket".
I had to sew two laptop backpacks together just so I could transport it.
Richard Barrell@NanoRaptor this one is kind of too good? The only thing about this I think breaks plausibility is that the little red mouse dot it would need to be made much larger relative to the rest of the keyboard. People did used to make some keyboards with tiny tiny keys ❤️
@0x2ba22e11 Ahh! it's a full size laptop keyboard, just not as deep as a regular thinkpad - still the same size as on the original (T43 I think!)
AMS@0x2ba22e11 @NanoRaptor It is just using the old eraser-head track point instead of the modern rubber one.
@AMS @NanoRaptor as far as I remember those were about 4mm diameter?
Darryl RammThat 750MB Zip removable drive in the side bay did sometimes made the thinkfriend not a friend...
Licho@NanoRaptor the alt text is great. I can't find it in Google. What is it?
Techokami@NanoRaptor why is this not real?????? 
maybenotthere isn't (yet) an established pipeline for easily making boards that shim an MNT or a rPi-cm into an arbitrary chassis (vaguely thinkpad shaped ofc)
(with maybe dropdown-menu selection of keyboard-generation, automagically knowing pinouts, etc)
someone sufficiently pissed off by lenovo will make it work eventually
Haelwenn /элвэн/ 
@techokami @NanoRaptor Well… it sort of existed in the past with smol laptops like the libretto and some PDAs.
@lanodan @NanoRaptor oh I am very much aware of that, just that
1) they are kind of hard to find in working shape for a reasonable price
2) they aren't as capable as they used to be in this modern world
3) I wish I could get a modern take on this form factor that doesn't cost an arm and a leg but is actually compatible with Linux
GPX Win devices get real close to solving point 3 but it sounds like running Linux on them is a royal pita and I don't want to use Windows 11
@techokami @NanoRaptor Oh yeah entirely so.
Although on the Linux thing. GPD Micro cites Ubuntu Mate on the product page and https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GPD_MicroPC looks like the stuff you'd expect from most laptops so doesn't seems like an ARM situation.
Although on the Linux thing. GPD Micro cites Ubuntu Mate on the product page and https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GPD_MicroPC looks like the stuff you'd expect from most laptops so doesn't seems like an ARM situation.
@lanodan @NanoRaptor unfortunately I prefer Fedora and would like to not use Ubuntu. I use it enough for my web server!
concretedog@NanoRaptor 1000% would buy.
𝔸𝕟𝕔𝕚𝕖𝕟𝕥 𝕊𝕠𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕤 🔉
koehr
Khleedril@NanoRaptor I used to have one of these running Debian; it was as good as you can imagine. An absolute peach.
It ran a Transmeta Crusoe!
mxk@khleedril @NanoRaptor something ain't right here.
Your picture is a Sony Vaio P which ran a Intel Atom Z-Series processor.
The Sony Vaio Picture book from a few years earlier ran on a Transmeta processor, but looked a lot less sleek!
Your picture is a Sony Vaio P which ran a Intel Atom Z-Series processor.
The Sony Vaio Picture book from a few years earlier ran on a Transmeta processor, but looked a lot less sleek!
@mxk @NanoRaptor Mine was a PCG-C1VE specifically. You are probably right about the picture not being exactly correct, but it is close.
@khleedril @NanoRaptor as said, similar in concept, but a lot less elegant/sleek! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Vaio_C1_series
🏴☠️ ╠╣acktor | ɹoʇʞɔɐ╠╣ 🏴☠️
Raptor 
@NanoRaptor I would buy the shit out of something like this, looks like a "full size" version of my sharp hc-4100
Snep 
@NanoRaptor Return of the ThinkFriend!! I fell in love with this edit ever since I've seen it first over on Twitter a few years ago, wishing to this day to have one exactly like this :D
Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦
Tubemeister@NanoRaptor Add a slide out second screen above the main one and I’m game. 😊
hazelnot 
@NanoRaptor friend :3
Rylie Stargazer 🏳️⚧️@NanoRaptor awww. Cute! The era when stuff like that was real, if slow and awkward, was pretty cool. I had a broken something similar, that I always wished I got working reliably. I would have gone gaga for a little computer with a Thinkpad quality keyboard
Tobias Ernst@NanoRaptor Yay! It has a Trackpoint! What's this? Some historic device? Or an AI design study?
Charlie Stross@NanoRaptor I would, even today, give my left kidney for one of those.
George BI don't know what the going rate is for a kidney these days but I think if you sell it you can probably buy this which is similar:
@gbargoud @NanoRaptor The MNT Pocket Reform is absolutely ghastly and needs to be buried at a crossroads with a mouthful of garlic and a stake through its motherboard.
(That thing in front of its screen is not a keyboard, it's a disaster.)
I used to have one of these when my laptop died and I needed a quick and cheap replacement:
https://www.cnet.com/reviews/hp-mini-210-1156sa-review/
I wonder where it ended up, my daughter would absolutely love it and has hands small enough to actually use the keyboard
⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️@cstross @NanoRaptor a few hundred quid nets you things like https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/224686713329?_skw=Sharp%20Zaurus%20SL-C3100&epid=28029196693
Rare Vintage Sharp Zaurus Keyboard-based PDA - 4GB (SL-C3100) | eBay UK
4 GB Hard drive. They are sold as collectibles only. For your protection and ours, security stickers are added to all products and serial numbers are recorded. About the item: This item is associated with the following MPN(s): SL-C3100.
europlus 
@cstross @NanoRaptor if relevant, would you have to ask the kidney donation recipient first?
Peter Cohen@NanoRaptor *heavy breathing*
this is the cyberdeck I've been dreaming of
Nyan Max@NanoRaptor I want one or two or three. Take my money!!!
Karpour@NanoRaptor of all the things you made, this is the one I wished was real the most.
Luckily Vaio Picturebooks exist.
Luckily Vaio Picturebooks exist.