Why are tiny laptops so unpopular compared to smartphones?
Because you can't type with more than 2 fingers on a keyboard that small.
>>107622667my steam deck can do that too.
>>107622667Because for what people use it for, a smartphone is a better form factor.UMPCs have their own use cases.
>>107622690Why bother with the eck when I can just slap some controllers on my phone
>>107622667The way phones & tablets are locked down and only one USB port I want one of those tiny laptops or a cyberdeck, because I am absolutely pissed at bigtech having admin/root over my hardware/software
>>107622667why are they all 800 fucking dollars
>>107623245GPD MicroPC 2 is much cheaper?
>>107622749because i got the ek almost for free after selling a few knifes.
>>107623288no. it is retardedly priced. It is weaker than a Steam Deck and a Steam deck is much cheaper than the actual price as slavs like me work in CS2 on case drops and the 569 euro price is more like ... 200 euro give or take. on the other hand the cheapest GPD device is 650 dollars, so like 600 euro. More than the Steam Deck and you have to actually give the money. Had the product been outstanding i would understand it costing so much more than the competition but GPD devices are also known to be kinda crappy. If your main point is that GPD devices are for work and not gaming than the steam deck is almost as mobile and capable of a work machine. The truth is that GPD devices are too expensive to be considerable. The worst thing yet is that China is making more and more devices that are price competitive to the Steam Deck and as a result the market GPD competes in is shrinking. Only place GPD devices are found are 4chan /g/ shitpost. they do not exist in the wild. Gaming Handhelds from Lenovo and Valve exist in the wild and are much more appropriately priced.
>>107622749>arm gaming
>>107622667Power efficiency.
>>107623407furthermore, engineers that need mobile work, usually use laptops. the GPD is retardetly priced out of the market. A Chuwi Hi10 Max is what i would recommend for people who need mobility and work on the go. You cannot game on it much but you can launch heroes 3 on it too. It costs 350 euros - still like 2-3 times cheaper than a GPD device.The pricing of GPD devices is what makes me auto ignore them whenever i consider a new device. The fact that they are also known to be shit is just the cherry on the top - they have as good build quality as the Chuwi, and in many cases are as good as it for gaming but at 3x the price. GPD devices are also most of the case 2x the price of the Steam Deck when it is in many cases much better.If GPD have no honest prices, than they deserved to be memed as the "overpriced apple wanna be devices". Their devices are neight for work or for gaming at least not on any competitive pricing level.
>>107622667Smartphones are more efficient with battery usage and the elites are jewing you into using them by making banks require phones.Tablets are almost useless and a netbook makes infinitely more sense, so that there might just be caused by normies being dumb.>>107623537The GPD pocket 4 is actually far cheaper than equivalent laptops with the same hardware. There are chinkpads with weaker ryzens and the same 32GB of RAM that go for far more than what the pocket costs. I sincerely doubt that chuwi is anywhere near the build quality of the pocket. The keyboard is the weakest point and people had problems with it, but otherwise everything including the hinge is actually well designed and built.
