[tomrod]

Pretty dang cool. Well done.

My ideal setup before eyeing the e-ink space was a linux-based netbook and occasional internet access to offload heavy compute to powerful servers. I could see using this sort of setup in a similar fashion.

[anthk]

I still use an n270 with OpenBSD, cwm, uxterm, mupdf and a bunch of cli/tui tools.

[knowitnone]

Chromebook with linux installed?

[tomrod]

A bit clunkier compared to a clean ARM or AMD linux install, but still more or less useful.

Asus' eeePc was awesome!

[kstrauser]

I had an Eee PC 701. Pluses: the size was perfect. Minuses: everything else, from the CPU to the tiny drive to the tiny RAM to the keyboard to the trackpad was meh, at best.

I'd love one with modern tech, long battery life, decent display quality, and long battery life. I don't care if it could only do text mode. That might even be ideal for my uses, which would primarily involve running Emacs and org-mode.

[ctoth]

Check out GPD. I am typing this from a GPD Win Max and it's a lovely little x64 machine with 64 GB of RAM and a 7840U CPU (8 cores at 3.3 GHz) and ... it fits in a coat pocket. The battery life is okayish (~5 hours after 2 years?), but USB C charging means just buy extra battery packs.

[kstrauser]

That's super cool! Thanks for the idea.