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@bastetfurry @janet_catcus the only thing cooler would be if they did a #transparent version, but I also know why they didn't and instead chose said muted colour pallet: As those are easily sourceable, child-safe (if not medical- or food-grade), and available as recycling plastics. Also said colours don't directly show ABS's yellowing under sunlight that distinctively.

Keeping costs down, compared to the high prices of optically clear, non-discoloured plastic ehich also tends to be more brittle, and also may not be an option due to the way they pulled a "#ThinkPadnium" style metal reinforcement of the chassis, as they clearly worked out a mix of elastic deformation (TPU), lightweight flexing and stiffening is the way to make a machine that is more forgiving in terms of abuse without designing it to be an unwieldy, heavy industrial appliance.

So yeah, I do want to see @frameworkcomputer release the #Framework12 and maybe some compact #Desktop case that is essentially allowing to shove a Framework 12 or #Framework13 mainboard and keyboard in and have a low-footprint unit like the #RaspberryPi #Pi400 & #Pi500 units. Or just some case one can bolt onto #VESA mounts at a screen (similar to a #ThinkStation Tiny / #ThinkCentre Tiny) and use those for #Classrooms.

I hope they have some nice #Stylus slot & lanyard option similar to the #X230Tablet I still daily-drive today.

@gulovsen As I said before already, the #AppleVisionPro or any #WearableComputer of that kind can't become a #MassMarket success for all the reasons starting from the #price over being an #Apple product aka. hamfisted into uselessness and also lacking not just reasons and #applications to use it outside of the spechal nieche-cases that need #AugmentedReality and #EyeTracking.

  • There, it's clumsy development tools and limitations are an acceptable exchange for being dozens of times cheaper, lighter and less cumbersome to setup at the user level than competing options. Just like the #ProDisplayXDR's price tag was only insulting to the people that never were the target audience to begin with (tho not having a real, stable and hard-fixed #VESA-Mount is an unforgiving sin given that they could've easily made that happen instead if a shitty & overpriced adaptor!)...

Personally, I'd consider building myself a #Optigon + #Somatic combo instead because that shit I can at least use with my existing tools and without misplaced trust into a #GAFAM that bows before the "P.R." China of all regimes...

Infosec.SpaceKevin Karhan :verified: (@kkarhan@infosec.space)@fuchsiii@oxytodon.com I mean, AR for complex stuff makes sense... Like having an engineer fixing a turbofan on an airliner have the maintenance instructions in their FOV and being able to contextually see relevant data (i.e. Hydraulic Pressure a line is supposed to have or the torque at which the bolt has to be affixed they screw in... Similarly, it does make sense for surgeons to have relevant info at hand and like a dynamically overlaid HUD that shows the planned procedure and can overlap additional info (i.e. X-Ray and MRI images)... And for those areas, Microsoft sold their HoloLens quite well as the cost of a fuckup is peanuts compared to a fully decked out portable workstation and hygenically encapsulated setup like that. I just think the #VisionPro will never be a mass-market item, even if that makes me sound like #SteveBallmer reacting to the #iPhone! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eywi0h_Y5_U
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@pallenberg ich glaub' nur dass die #AppleVisionPro und jegliches #VR/#AR sich nicht gegenüber klassischen Multimonitor-Arbeitsplätzen durchsetzen wird weil's nicht nur schwer sondern auch teuer ist...

Aber für Leute die #GameDev sowie #Architektur & #Design machen ist's das richtige Tool...

Genauso wie das #ProDisplayXDR für eine Zielgruppe endgeil ist und für die die sich ob des Preises beschweren eh nicht das Zielprodukt ist.
(Wobei es IMHO keinen Grund gibt die #VESA-Halterung nicht standardmäßig zu verbauen statt € 129 für neb proprietären Adapter zu verlangen!)

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@paul @mark one of the lesser known party tricks of the old 27” iMac which I tried once, is to give it a #VESA mount, an #Ergotron #HX monitor stand and rotate the whole kit 90 degrees. Paper scape on a *massive* scale. Unfortunately the one I had crashed its hard disk (unrelated) pretty soon so I never used it regularly in that mode.