[anonzzzies]

I have been doing this for months now with the nreal air, my phone and a portable keyboard with trackpad (I use keyboard shortcuts for anything anyway). It works really well and I haven't taken my laptop anywhere for 2 months or so. It is not perfect, but it's much better than lugging my laptop everywhere (no matter what it weighs; it's the dimensions). And the battery life is outstanding (it's that of my phone and charges as quickly which is much faster than my laptop). I either use github workspaces or vnc to work. VNC is outstanding as it burns minimum battery on the phone and you have a powerful server desktop.

Also; it's much more private; no-one can see your screen (unless you share) and when you put the sun light protector on, no-one starts talking with you. It's a very clear sign of ; I am busy.

The resolution of the monitor (I run DEX as the AR on this thing is not good enough (yet)) could be higher, but that's just a matter of time, and, as it seems to progress now, not a lot of time at that.

[paraknight]

There are dozens of us! I use the phone as trackpad when I need to. Small BT keyboard, but thinking of learning the Charachorder. Nreal Air + S22 Ultra DeX + AVNC + proot Ubuntu (via Andronix) + VSCode with the Remote Development extension has been my daily driver for almost 6 months now I think. I even play games on this via GeForce Now and a Switch Pro controller, even voice chat on Discord at the same time and it doesn't break a sweat.

[anonzzzies]

The charachorder seems interesting but USB , not BLE, so not sure how that would work with this setup?

[anaisbetts]

Same, a Steam Deck with an NReal Air and a slim Bluetooth keyboard/mouse is actually a smaller Linux laptop than a laptop (though admittedly a bit more cumbersome for quick usage vs just flipping open a laptop).

[FullyFunctional]

Thanks for sharing this. I was exactly hoping to find something like this in the comments. I had forgotten about the nreal but it looks more useful than the specialized notebook.