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Nice try. I had the original and it can do everything this can do. Okay, it can do almost everything, like run calculator, but it’s the original!

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I had a third generation of yours - the Commodore Amiga.

Holy shot was that an amazing machine! It was ahead of its time in so many ways. I learned to do OOP on it, I created some cool pictures in Paint Shop Pro on it, and of course I used it to play a ton of fantastic games. And in a time before Windows took off, it offered Workbench - a really slick *nix based graphical OS.

I also used a 64 for a bit before I got my Amiga, and yes that was a superb machine too.

I guess neither the Amiga nor the Commodore 64 folded in two, so this new Ryzen-based machine has that over our two computers.

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Seems pretty sweet idea iff have VR/AR glasses with you, or display where you’re going

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Like in Johnny Mnemonic (1995).

Why is their internet so much cooler than what we have now? Instead of a crazy 3D VR world, we get a ton of spam, dull corporate run social networks and uncontrolled fake news and bots.

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Hate to bring it up but there was Second Life and there is (?) the Metaverse crap.

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FWIW, my comment was tongue in cheek.

From a UX perspective, making a long distance call to Beijing via VR is comical. Not to mention we have some excellent services via web and mobile that make life so much easier.

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Is there a way I can use my laptop screen or phone screen as a display for another machine as this claims?

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Through a remote desktop connection, yes.
But directly use the display hardware, almost always the answer is no. There are few laptops with display in capabilities, but they are really rare.

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Right, so we won’t realistically be able to use our other device screens as this article or the company claims, and will have to rely on monitors, TVs or VR/AR headsets. Could be useful for headless home servers I suppose.

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I mean, you can connect it to your TV, or use a 100€ USB C display https://amzn.eu/d/05Vsw1nm

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I’d prefer a GameCube style box that I plug a good keyboard & mouse into in addition to the monitor.

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I have not, and that does look really cool. I’m gonna need a handle though.

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