AmiWest 2017 clarifications

[ferrellsl]

I know exactly what you mean. I have Windows, Mac and Linux at home as well. The A1222 is especially exciting due to its lower price and that really cool laptop project Hans de Ruiter is working on. He had a prototype running at the show.

Was it a true laptop or just a luggable?  If it's thicker than 1.5 inches then people shouldn't refer to it as a laptop but as a something else entirely.

[ferrellsl]

I don't see any point in debating the definition of laptop.

I didn't call for a debate.  Are you looking for one?  My point is that standards have changed over the past 30  years as to what defines a laptop and these days there's the expectation that a laptop has a certain dimensional and weight threshold, a battery life measured in hours and WiFi.  A Tabor shoe-horned into a box with some batteries and an LCD panel doesn't fit that definition at all.  I'd be laughed out of the room if I showed up with such a system in front of my peers and referred to it as a laptop....

So call it a laptop if you want to continue living in 1998, but time marches on and so do standards.

[ferrellsl]

@LoadWB

Exactly.....this portable Tabor -in-a-box more closely fits the definition of a portable or desktop replacement....not a laptop.  I definitely wouldn't throw it in a briefcase or backpack for my travels or use it on the train or plane.

[ferrellsl]

This thing sounds g-d ridiculous.  Where can one see a picture of it? :lol:

Hans is working on it and has a video of his progress here:  https://keasigmadelta.com/diy-laptop/

Not sure why he chose to leave the Tabor board mounted in the PC case for this video unless it was to provide support for the video card. It'll be tough to stuff all that hardware into a case without a 90-degree adapter for the video card slot and then there's the driver board for the LCD panel, 6 batteries that look to be the size of standard C cells and a switching power supply.

[ferrellsl]

I guess I just didn't notice my MacBook Pro booted in 6 seconds from cold and I have Chrome up and running in under 10 seconds.

Listen, all of us here know time has moved on. My point is that somebody is trying their best to create a portable Amiga running the latest AmigaOS. If some people want to point and laugh that is their business but that kind of stuff doesn't belong in this thread.

I am looking forward to my new A1222 laptop and I don't care if my peers laugh or not.

I look forward to it as well, but let's call it what it is....as the saying goes, you can put lipstick on a pig and you still have a pig.

Shoe-horning a Tabor into a small box doesn't make it a laptop....it's a Tabor in a small box.

People outside the NG Amiga community who might be interested in an Amiga laptop are only going to be annoyed when they search for an Amiga "laptop" only to find a Tabor crammed in a small box with no WiFi and battery life measured in minutes instead of hours and it's as thick as a pizza box.