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H/PC Vanguard Posts: | 3,656 |
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| This news just came in.
NEC is teasing an 8 inch mini laptop that runs Windows 10 called LAVIE MINI.
Spec:
579grams.
11th gen. Core i7
16GB RAM
512GB Storage.
https://www.gizmodo.jp/2021/01/lavie-mini.html
More information might be coming in CES 2021. Edited by stingraze 2021-01-09 12:40 PM
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H/PC Sensei Posts: | 877 |
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| I hope it's not a Japan only release. Looks fantastic! |
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H/PC Vanguard Posts: | 3,656 |
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| Yes, I hope so too!
I will tell the NEC people to market it worldwide if I can!
Here's the picture of the prototype model:
https://engt.co/3qh0WRlEdited by stingraze 2021-01-09 1:10 PM
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Moderator H/PC Vanguard Posts: | 2,812 |
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| What a find, stingraze. You're always on top of this stuff.
Keyboard looks to be in English, so there's hope for international sales, no?
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Subscribers Factorite (Elite) | OH wow, oh wow, that looks amazing! Love the dock and game pad that can be added! |
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H/PC Vanguard Posts: | 3,656 |
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| Quote Jake - 2021-01-10 12:37 AM
What a find, stingraze. You're always on top of this stuff.
Keyboard looks to be in English, so there's hope for international sales, no?
Jake
Yeah. I hope there will be!
I wonder how the circular keys will feel when typed.
Please note that it's probably up to the reaction of the people whether or not this will be ever released (according to some Japanese site ). Edited by stingraze 2021-01-10 7:05 AM
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H/PC Vanguard Posts: | 3,656 |
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| It's been several months, but seems like Engadget Japanese got some photos of the real thing.
https://japanese.engadget.com/ces%E5%8F%82%E8%80%83%E5%87%BA%E5%B1%9... |
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H/PC Elite Posts: | 733 |
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| The keyboard looks very Velo-ish. Interesting but hardware-architecture-wise it's not my kind of thing. |
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Moderator H/PC Vanguard Posts: | 2,812 |
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| It does look a little like an enlarged Velo kb. Over at discord, apparently there was a LAVIE MINI channel, but it was taken down once mods believed device was vaporware--disappointing.
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H/PC Vanguard Posts: | 3,656 |
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| Yeah, I guess the shape of the keyboard keys being circular is similar to Velo. I don't really like round keys, I never bought a device with round keys, lol.
I really hope NEC produces this in the near future. It will be funny if it emulated Nintendo Switch haha. |
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Moderator H/PC Vanguard Posts: | 2,812 |
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| The Velo keyboard was tough sledding, but at least these keys have some size to them.
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H/PC Vanguard Posts: | 3,656 |
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| If NEC were looking at this, they might have a good inspiration by looking at this video from Razor from 2011. - Razor Switchblade -
I found it by searching "round keys handheld pc" on DuckDuckGo image search. Edited by stingraze 2021-07-14 6:11 AM
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