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That's the cutest laptop i have seen, after watching it yesterday it made me think about how much work would be needed to get some old netbook like the HP Mini or Asus Eeepc and turn it into a dock for Samsung Dex (desktop mode through usbc->hdmi for Samsung's phones) or a Raspberry pi 4.

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The Pinephone comes with a USB gadget driver that presents the phone as a NIC. Plug it into a laptop, and the laptop can then be used as a terminal for the phone simply by sshing into it. X forwarding works, so you can practically run desktop programs that would be cumbersome to run with a touchscreen.

You could probably do the same with a Raspberry Pi, but it might be trickier to do with an Android phone. A phone that supports Termux or UserLAnd would work well if you used adb port forwarding.

There are still a lot of 10.1" laptops out there that are much newer than the old Eeepc's. Here's an eBay query that works for me: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=10.1%22+laptop&_sop=12

Why not get something like a HP Pro Tablet 608 G1? It is a slim 8" and it has 5g wifi. That is about the size of the libretto 50ct that I used to have, but the user isn't stuck with Win98se2.

There are some old netbooks in the ebay link I posted, but there are also plenty of new-ish ones that are pre-loaded with Win 10, 4GB ram, etc.

Actually you can already use the eeepc through USB and Dex Desktop (Pc, mac and unofficially chromeos and Linux).

https://liliputing.com/2020/07/use-samsung-dex-with-a-chrome...

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