Do keyboard PC's deserve another chance?

[themarcelisious]

Back then, PC's were built into keyboards, instead of a tower or an all in one monitor.

The trend later died, but somebody found one with Windows 10 and okay specs.

$99 K3 Windows 10 keyboard PC review

Here's the question: If you found one of these with really good specs, would you buy it?

[mikat]

no, because the keyboard would be super high off the desk, your keyboard would become warm and it would be a pain to move your keyboard.

also: you'd have to make a keyboard that alot of people like and a case that matches it, for everyone to have the case that they want and the keyboard that they want you'd need <amount of keyboards on the market>*<amount of cases on the market>

[Mr.Meerkat]

5 minutes ago, mikat said:

no, because the keyboard would be super high off the desk and your keyboard would become warm

@themarcelisious Think of it as a gaming laptop with not the greatest cooling...you know how warm the keys get so...that and probably warmer actually as people would want desktop grade hardware in it and not low TDP mobile stuff  

[Monkey Dust]

I'd pass. I'd consider one built into the monitor though. I quite like that upon spilling coke over my keyboard I have only possibly killed my keyboard, maybe the mouse too if it was within splash range, and that all the really expensive parts stay dry. 

[mikat]

2 minutes ago, Monkey Dust said:

I'd pass. I'd consider one built into the monitor though. I quite like that upon spilling coke over my keyboard I have only possibly killed my keyboard, maybe the mouse too if it was within splash range, and that all the really expensive parts stay dry. 

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[ChrisCross]

to be honest that looks really good. the 5v input mean you can easily power it of a battery bank or a phone charger and paired with a bluetooth mouse or trackpad it would make a really good mobile pc. i would probably use the windows license and put linux on it if its possible.

[Monkey Dust]

2 minutes ago, mikat said:

 

Well not that one, it is rather...inelegant.

I was thinking of something that looked like a monitor, but a bit thicker, possibly using high end laptop parts for all but the GPU.

 

[mikat]

2 minutes ago, Monkey Dust said:

Well not that one, it is rather...inelegant.

I was thinking of something that looked like a monitor, but a bit thicker, possibly using high end laptop parts for all but the GPU.

 

 

[Monkey Dust]

That Origin one looks good

[LogicalDrm]

If they would come with battery built-in or with ability to use battery banks as power source. I had talk about one of those. Its actually perfect (or would be with battery) for visually impaired and blind people. They don't really need display or even mouse to use Win10 PC. Just keyboard and battery to power it.

[steezemageeze]

I saw this on /r/mechanicalkeyboards today: http://sneek.co/blog/project-kiiboard/

 

Not exactly what you're thinking of, but similar, and cool as hell either way.

[Shira]

On 5/21/2016 at 11:17 PM, themarcelisious said:

$99 K3 Windows 10 keyboard PC review

That looks pretty nice for $100, and it looked kinda smooth; pretty sad this $100 little thing is probably "faster" than most laptops today that cost 5 times as much and for some obscure reason still stick to shitty HDDs.

[Thony]

Would be nice of we could get a rid off the masssi e PC cases and move to a small factor completely. 

 

1st PC was as big a a room, but we have been using same size ATX cases forever now. Shame on the progress with decreasing the physical size of the hardware is in slowmo...

 

I know there are ITX and laptops and such but heat is still our biggest problem.