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5 HN users recommended this between 2012 and 2025, in 5 comments.
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Even if this guy was legit and the product worked as advertised, I still think it is a terrible idea.
Having multiple devices is useful. If they need to shared data, do it wireslessly, or through the cloud.
Otherwise I have these empty husks lying around my house that are useless without my phone.
The motorola atrix "lapdock" is a similar product idea. It is 78% on sale on amazon. I hated it the moment I saw it.
http://www.amazon.com/AT-Laptop-Dock-Motorola-ATRIX/dp/B004M...
I never heard about such a device but I have a Motorola LAPDOCK to control my raspberry. I guess the raspberry could be adapted to control a distant desktop (adding a wifi or bluetooth card, a battery of some sort and a VNC-like software)
Or even using a Motorola LAPDOCK + Smartphone with remote-control app
See Motorola Lapdock: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004M17D62/
Here is a similar product from Motorola several years ago:
http://www.amazon.com/Motorola-Atrix-4G-Android-Phone/dp/B00...
And there's a laptop dock sold separately
http://www.amazon.com/AT-Laptop-Motorola-Retail-Packaging/dp...
I had the phone but had never used the dock. Not sure about the experience, but it's a cool idea to me.
There actually was an Android based device that did this years ago. 2011/2012, I think; you could connect the phone to an external device that gave you a mouse, keyboard, and screen. The only problem was that the external device was something like $300 on top of the phone.
Edit: https://www.amazon.com/AT-Laptop-Dock-Motorola-ATRIX/dp/B004... - Motorola Atrix Lapdock
> I always thought it would be great to have a "laptop without a motherboard"
That's basically what a rack console is. At 1U it was skinnier than laptops from prior decades. They're not exactly a laptop form factor, but to get them smaller you would have had to accept a much lower screen resolution, which would risk some systems not being able to display (e.g. your server may have booted-up to 1280x1024 while your laptop could only do 800x600), or would have needed to be quite expensive to add an ultra-high DPI screen.
Still, at various times there were briefly devices like that available for purchase at closeout prices... like the failed "Motorola ATRIX lapdock":
https://www.cnet.com/reviews/motorola-laptop-dock-review/
https://www.amazon.com/AT-Laptop-Dock-Motorola-ATRIX/dp/B004...
I'd say the USB-HDMI capture card is a better solution all-around. I even prefer it to USB "crash carts" because you aren't dependent on the manufacturer keeping their proprietary software software updated for each subsequent Windows/Linux/Mac release.