I've been rather busy recently, so I haven't had the time to get on here.

Firstly, who of us are still around? It's good to see a number of us still around, although Kuma seems to be AWOL; we're missing the innuendoes!

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ZenBook Duo

The ASUS ZenBook Duo (2025) has been serving me well. The battery life isn't great and I'd even say bad when using two displays (no surprise). The keyboard occasionally has a spaz out, but can be quickly fixed. The docks I have to use are temperamental with it and really don't like the dual displays.

The MPP is atrocious. I can barely use it even with stroke smoothing. I draw on other devices and transfer it over it's so unusable. Not to mention the included stylus just straight up died.

I realize it's been nearly 3 decades when "pocket PCs" were on my radar with Palm and iPaqs. I had this notion that perhaps I could do all my computing on a portable device that could fit in my pocket.

I guess the modern smartphone has advanced quite a bit, but it still doesn't handle all my computing needs.

Now, upon reflection, I've strayed far from the idea of having a singular computing device.

Currently I regularly use:

-Windows gaming laptop, specifically with a discrete GPU to handle video and 3D rendering work

-Macbook Air specifically just to deploy stuff via XCode

...That Apple has a Neo and Surface does not.

...That Apple (and maybe Samsung?) might be preparing a "wide" folding cell phone while Microsoft cancelled the Duo years ago.

...That Asus has a (Zenbook) Duo...

What do you find ironic?

I've just stumbled across this YouTube channel that compares E-Ink displays.

https://youtube.com/@theinktelligent

He's not the most scientific about it, but he does just show the devices with consideration for balance (adjusting frontlights, etc.), and it's clearly not 'AI' nonsense.