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Would you buy a ultra thin modular laptop thing that's just a battery screen(s) and keyboard with DeX ports?
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I have no idea why this isn't a thing. Ideally the keyboard and the screen would be detachable and both would have batteries so it'd be possible in the future to buy a 2nd screen and magnetically stack them. If the display(s) supported wireless DeX while the keyboard supported wired DeX pass through it'd work as a laptop, tablet, and multi display work station. The battery life on the thing would be mind blowing and I'd imagine it'd also work as a portable monitor for gaming as a bonus.

DeX is so powerful as a quasi OS on its own and has no optimized hardware. But the potential is so obviously there. As it is I can stream DeX wirelessly to my TV with virtually no discernable latency and that's not even specialized for DeX. Imagine a display with a battery that was that could also magnetically attach to a keyboard to feed it more power and allow for peripherals and for a wired connection to your galaxy.

The keyboard portion could have all the ports as well including an audio i/o port even as AAudio or hopefully Samsung Pro audio could make a glorious return to allow for galaxy tablets to be used for live music performance/production again. Perhaps various keyboards could be made each with varying purposes like a Wacom specific display with shortcut buttons.

I can imagine just having the phone in my pocket and using one of the screens as a tablet and then when doing more serious work plugging them together either in laptop form or with cables.

The surface duo was just silly and that existed twice...I actually like all the MS surface pros I've had through the years but it occurred to me that I actually just like them because they're versatile and useful in ways other things aren't I. E. I like how I can perch my surface up and watch a movie without any hassle since the keyboard comes off and there's a kick stand. The form factor and Microsoft baking their own hardware for their own OS makes it work just like apple and their control over their own h/w and s/w.

The Z Fold 5 is legit fun to use and there's this satisfaction to perching it up on a table and controlling it with Bixby while your hands are full then putting it back in your pocket. Its like a google home but not so creepy since it's only there when you need it.

I carry a surface pro and a Z fold 5 and sometimes my Nintendo switch on my back pack.

If I had the option of just carrying my Z fold, a screen with a type cover that only let me use DeX and supplied all the power and allowed me to plug on all the devices I needed I wouldn't need to carry my surface with me nearly as much and I'd be able to hopefully use it to play my switch on a larger screen.

Would anyone else be interested in something like that and what would your price point be for what amounts to selling wireless displays, batteries and pretty much what's inside of a DeX pad plus a few more ports?

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