When a micro-PC is just too much clutter and wasted space

[wfooshee]

From https://www.hp.com/us-en/desktops/business/eliteboard.html

The HP Eliteboard, PC in a keyboard.

 

[DG_Silva]

It looks really interesting, especially when it comes to hotdesking. My concern is that what happens when you're not connected to your organisation's LLM, I guess there would be a localised version on the machine? I think it's something I might talk to one of our IT architects at work about to expand my understanding.

I will say, my initial thoughts put me in mind of this BOFH story - https://www.theregister.com/2008/02/01/bofh_episode_4/

 

[Nexus]

This seems like a Raspberry Pi 400 with an X86 CPU.

 

[Hlavco]

As a frequent user of the right Ctrl key, I wouldn't consider this unless that Copilot button is remappable. My current laptop replaced right Ctrl with a fingerprint sensor and it's very annoying.

What the heck is an "AI PC"? Is that like in 2000 when our Compaq Presario called itself an "Internet PC"?

 

[DK]

As a frequent user of the right Ctrl key, I wouldn't consider this unless that Copilot button is remappable. My current laptop replaced right Ctrl with a fingerprint sensor and it's very annoying.

What the heck is an "AI PC"? Is that like in 2000 when our Compaq Presario called itself an "Internet PC"?

This just sounds like a dumb terminal from the 70s/80s, but without any control over the output.

 

[TB]

So... anywhere I take my keyboard has to already have a monitor set up to use.

I'll stick with my laptop, thanks.

 

[daan]

So... anywhere I take my keyboard has to already have a monitor set up to use.

I'll stick with my laptop, thanks.

And a mouse.

I don't see the point of this.

 

[ROAD_DOGG33J]

It's interesting. My first thought was what if the keyboard isn't good.

 

[DG_Silva]

And a mouse.

I don't see the point of this.

I can, from an IT manager/CEO's perspective; imagine, as we have at work, 400+ desks with monitors, keyboard & mouse but no desktops because you've given all of your employees laptops - you don't need pricey laptops which breakdown anymore, just AIO PCs which are heavily tied down into your LLM which in theory should be more secure.

I mean, it's a load of old balls from anyone else's perspective because it'll struggle to cope with decent size spreadsheets or databases, image manipulation/design, on-the-go presenting or indeed anything else which makes a laptop as useful as it is.

 

[TB]

And a mouse.

My wireless mouse comes with me when I take my laptop somewhere, so no change for me there.

My first thought was what if the keyboard isn't good.

Get a USB-C keyboard to connect to your keyboard.

 

[EngieDiesel]

I can, from an IT manager/CEO's perspective; imagine, as we have at work, 400+ desks with monitors, keyboard & mouse but no desktops because you've given all of your employees laptops - you don't need pricey laptops which breakdown anymore, just AIO PCs which are heavily tied down into your LLM which in theory should be more secure.

And much more importantly it's a convenient way for department managers to make themselves look good by shaving costs and putting another 9 cents into each shareholder's pocket annually. Never mind that this is, for all intents and purposes, just another incarnation of the thin client. Something that IT people hate with a burning passion because they're almost always more trouble than they're worth to maintain after a year or two.

 

[AnthonyD1993]

Get a USB-C keyboard to connect to your keyboard.

"Yo dawg, I heard you like keyboards so you got a keyboard for your keyboard so you can keyboard while you're keyboarding."
-Xzibit, probably.

And much more importantly it's a convenient way for department managers to make themselves look good by shaving costs and putting another 9 cents into each shareholder's pocket annually. Never mind that this is, for all intents and purposes, just another incarnation of the thin client. Something that IT people hate with a burning passion because they're almost always more trouble than they're worth to maintain after a year or two.

The same department managers that also would probably mandate use of these while not even using it themselves. I know my bosses would do that for a fact.

 

[EngieDiesel]

The same department managers that also would probably mandate use of these while not even using it themselves. I know my bosses would do that for a fact.

Well of course, because they need a full-featured top of the line laptop for (insert handwavey, fringe use case to justify that they really just want the company to buy them an expensive tech toy to flaunt in front of the other managers)

 

[Carpocalypse]

As a frequent user of the right Ctrl key, I wouldn't consider this unless that Copilot button is remappable. My current laptop replaced right Ctrl with a fingerprint sensor and it's very annoying.

What the heck is an "AI PC"? Is that like in 2000 when our Compaq Presario called itself an "Internet PC"?

You can remap it... Kind of. You can remap it to open programs that Microsoft specifically approves. Which includes:

• ChatGPT
• Two seperate Copilot apps, one apparently replacing Microsoft 365
• And a clipboard snippet program.

You might have better luck with Microsoft Powertoys, since it has an option to remap keys, but I don't have a copilot key to test it with.