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wvenable
joined 1 year ago
I had this machine as well. I had the high capacity main battery and the bay battery so it could run for 10 hours (which was a lot back then). But man that thing was slow.
An external keyboard would defeat the purpose! The benefit of the GPD Pocket is that you can throw it in your pocket and pull it out the compute. Admittedly the keyboard sucks -- the size and weird layout aren't the biggest problems; it's actually not that great at registering all keypresses. However, I can get used to it while coding. I think the Pocket 2 would be a lot better machine for coding.
If you can believe it -- software development. It's not exactly a powerhouse but it can run Visual Studio.
However, I don't use very much anymore.
The portfolio was my first Palmtop computer (of many -- the latest is a GPD Pocket 1). Unfortunately it died a long time ago. I miss the thing. It was fun to own.
The problem is the government has been protecting/supporting one group for a long time to the point that everything is now "too big to fail". Government continue to create investment materials that can't fail -- and anything that can't fail will create a bubble and destroy everything else. That investment in Canada was housing. Now it's like over half our GDP is housing investment. And why invest in anything else? Nothing else is as risk free.
I feel like the collapse is never going to come.