Half out of curiosity and half out of real interest I’d like to know what is the smallest (portable) device with a reasonable quality keyboard that could run an appropriate Linux distro and emacs and people have tested for actual long-term usability.
I’m looking at UMPCs and various 7-inch mini laptops you see on eBay.
Thanks!
I bought one of those 7 inch mini laptops on Ali Express. I’m a touch typist, and I can’t touch type on its keyboard, but I can type pretty fast while looking at the keyboard. Some of the keys are in unusual places, those could be remapped if you have more ambition than me. I find it perfectly adequate for emacs, web browsing, email, even gimp and libreoffice on the road. I wouldn’t want to write more than a page or two on that keyboard.
Check mini PCs made by GPD.
Port emacs to collapseos and the world is your playground.
A Steamdeck + keyboard plenty of power
It would require more than a little work, but I’d be willing to bet that it’s possible to get it to run on a microcontroller with some external RAM and an SD card attached to it. The work comes from the fact that you won’t really have a full OS in the sense that you’d prefer.
Pine phone + Keyboard Case?
Keyboard quality?
Poor, some keys tends to get stuck too often.
If you don’t plan supporting Pine64 it’s better to buy another portable keyboard.
He says he’s running emacs on an ipad, but he’s not. He’s running it on a Mac mini.
uconsole, but the waiting time is somewhat Loooong now…