Personally speaking I was buying it primarily for the design aesthetic (an industrial design partner from Pentagram was involved), but I've come to enjoy the Workbench OS UI features and associated shortcuts; I use it as a secondary work machine for various data science applications.
I can attest to the general build quality which so far seems high to me.
https://www.pentagram.com/work/caligra-c100-developer-termin...
There is something very "Apple 1-button mouse" about it, for sure
But https://caligra.com/workbench/#pricing suggests it's an awkwardly-reskinned Fedora with a $240/year subscription fee.
So, er, yes. WTF?
https://customer-i8ks9tgi5lkllj0i.cloudflarestream.com/c60aa...
Site looks good but it might mean c100 have no substance, thus at least had to make the site and their gadget pretty.
You can put things in this box, which is an unusual accessory for a computer.
They also made an OS which will cost a lot of money per seat per year.
Then they took many clean smooth fingerprint-free photos and made a web site to try to sell it.
The web site makes the box look nice but does a poor job explaining the rest.
its a computer. it does computer things, and you can use it for whatever computer things you want.
Am I missing context here that others have that make this website sufficient?
What a waste of material and machining time!
another step back towards unix I guess, but bell didn't charge yearly.
(edit, remembered it wasnt at&t)
but much larger, heavier and with a specific keyboard.
But I'm not a fan of connecting it to the keyboard instead. Why not just a mini pc with a built in battery?
Laptops with built-in screens make infinitely more sense for this population.
This hardware runs an operating system that requires a subscription for commercial use? https://caligra.com/workbench/#pricing
Does checking work email count? Or buying something from Amazon?
This should be the standard quality for Linux machines.
Is it coming from another project or is it built-in?
I also like the multi-modal scratchpad on the bottom half of the screen.
Edit: ok this is not a distro in the classical sense.
Edit 2: call me perv. but I'd love to see the back of the box where all the connectors are.
* link: https://customer-i8ks9tgi5lkllj0i.cloudflarestream.com/c60aa...
This looks well built with a lot of attention to detail. It’s impressive that the price isn’t higher for this level of machining and build quality on a low volume product.
I could see this doing well in some niche studios where they value design of all of the products in the office, but it’s a tough niche. The graphic and video designers are all going to be buying Apple. The CAD and engineering people want something with a real GPU. Most developers want a laptop that they can take with them. It’s nice that parts can be upgraded, but anchoring to that CPU is tough.
Is it a window? It seems likely to me that we're going to be paying the LLM tax on all of our consumer electronics for the rest of our lives.
Do they? Is that why they've committed to literally doubling their production capacity in 5 years?
The closest such advance in recent years didn't happen and instead turned into the macbook neo. Apple could have released an OS for the iphone pro max model of phones that allow them to boot Mac OS when attached to a docking station. And sold a laptop formfactor docking station.