Compact X16?

[Falken]

16 minutes ago, JayZee72 said:

Expandability is paramount; that's what kept me glued to my old Apple II back in the day.

I'm guessing we are all very much rooted in the personal experience we had with computers back in the day. I really liked the semi-portability you had with systems like the Spectrum, Amstrad,C64 and later the AtariST and the possibility to take it places. Either to friends, because not all of them owned a computer or to school on occasions. I believe a friend of my brother even took his Spectrum to holiday camp once. ? I didn't think much about expanding these machines, they were good for me as they were. Expandability only became interresting with the first PCs I owned.

[BruceMcF]

55 minutes ago, Falken said:

I'm guessing we are all very much rooted in the personal experience we had with computers back in the day. I really liked the semi-portability you had with systems like the Spectrum, Amstrad,C64 and later the AtariST and the possibility to take it places. Either to friends, because not all of them owned a computer or to school on occasions. I believe a friend of my brother even took his Spectrum to holiday camp once. ? I didn't think much about expanding these machines, they were good for me as they were. Expandability only became interresting with the first PCs I owned.

The thing is, doing it for the CX16p doesn't make sense when the CX16c will be a smaller card and so allow an EVEN SMALLER case than would be feasible for the CX16p.

It seems like the market for the kind of case you are talking about would cluster more toward the smaller and less expensive CX16c. Meanwhile the people who want to pay the extra price for greater expandability are going to cluster around wanting a case that supports that expansion.

 

[Perifractic]

I'm guessing we are all very much rooted in the personal experience we had with computers back in the day. I really liked the semi-portability you had with systems like the Spectrum, Amstrad,C64 and later the AtariST and the possibility to take it places. Either to friends, because not all of them owned a computer or to school on occasions. I believe a friend of my brother even took his Spectrum to holiday camp once. [emoji846] I didn't think much about expanding these machines, they were good for me as they were. Expandability only became interresting with the first PCs I owned.

You’ll like the handle on the side of the X16P then [emoji6]


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[kelli217]

1 hour ago, Perifractic said:

You’ll like the handle on the side of the X16P then

I wonder if someone could attach a small LCD or OLED screen to the front of the case and rig up a way to store the keyboard, and have something like an “SX16.”

[Lorin Millsap]

I wonder if someone could attach a small LCD or OLED screen to the front of the case and rig up a way to store the keyboard, and have something like an “SX16.”

Yuck. There are reasons laptop form factor won out because it accomplishes those goals more elegantly. But that’s not part of our project goals.


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[kelli217]

Sure. This is not a feature request. Just thinking about how there are some retrocomputing fans who are weird like that. ?

[TomXP411]

3 hours ago, Lorin Millsap said:

Yuck. There are reasons laptop form factor won out because it accomplishes those goals more elegantly. But that’s not part of our project goals.





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I still think the Kaypro II is the sexiest 8 bit computer.

I mean, just look at those metal sides and those square corners....





And, likewise, I still look with envy at the "lunchbox" computers, which now cost several thousand for the case alone.









Laptops are convenient for a certain set of people, but sometimes you want a real, full size system you can take with you. The lunchbox form factor can't be beat for portable power. 

 

[BruceMcF]

My daily driver was once an Amstrad PPC640 ... I got it as a grad student, because the stock was being sold at a liquidation discount. I had a parallel port external hard drive, but also used it to work on it in two floppy mode in the car when driving the kids to Pop Warner football.

It was like a "worst of both worlds" hybrid between a lunch box and a laptop ... less powerful than a lunch box and less sexy than a laptop.

 

[kelli217]

One of these, then? 

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[Falken]

I love that design.