The waiting time is horrendous though. Mine arrived 8 months after I purchased it but beyond that, those are absolutely great. I stopped carrying a laptop in my backpack, just one of those with an additional expansion board and an HDMI port. My work involves a ton of data which I can't fit into memory so in all cases, my computer is just a terminal to a large server somewhere. So Clockwork ticks all the boxes for me. The one thing I wish they had thought about is an easy access to the CM and be able to swap them for different use cases: when I want to preserve battery and speed is not a big deal - cm5. When I want some additional power - pull out the cm4 and toss in a 5 instead.
I wish there was access to swap the batteries without having to unscrew the back plate. I got mine after the long waiting period and was initially excited but eventually it became a dust collector as I don't have a usecase for it. It is also quite heavy to lug around in a pocket or something like that.
I have one of these. It's so pretty. But the keyboard is borderline unusuable. It's a lot smaller than it looks, the keys are tiny, and have no feedback whatsoever. They're just squashy rubber. Like the ZX Spectrum, but a quarter the size.
I had waited forever for this to stop being a pre-order, like literal years, and by the time I gave up, I'd come to the conclusion that the keyboard layout would just be a nightmare and I wouldn't use it, think I made the right decision, even if I do look at it occasionally and think it looks like a really nice cyberdeck.
I've got big hands and I think the allure of pocketable full-keyboard devices is just not for me.
The waiting time is horrendous though. Mine arrived 8 months after I purchased it but beyond that, those are absolutely great. I stopped carrying a laptop in my backpack, just one of those with an additional expansion board and an HDMI port. My work involves a ton of data which I can't fit into memory so in all cases, my computer is just a terminal to a large server somewhere. So Clockwork ticks all the boxes for me. The one thing I wish they had thought about is an easy access to the CM and be able to swap them for different use cases: when I want to preserve battery and speed is not a big deal - cm5. When I want some additional power - pull out the cm4 and toss in a 5 instead.
I wish there was access to swap the batteries without having to unscrew the back plate. I got mine after the long waiting period and was initially excited but eventually it became a dust collector as I don't have a usecase for it. It is also quite heavy to lug around in a pocket or something like that.
I have one of these. It's so pretty. But the keyboard is borderline unusuable. It's a lot smaller than it looks, the keys are tiny, and have no feedback whatsoever. They're just squashy rubber. Like the ZX Spectrum, but a quarter the size.
Awful.
I had waited forever for this to stop being a pre-order, like literal years, and by the time I gave up, I'd come to the conclusion that the keyboard layout would just be a nightmare and I wouldn't use it, think I made the right decision, even if I do look at it occasionally and think it looks like a really nice cyberdeck.
I've got big hands and I think the allure of pocketable full-keyboard devices is just not for me.
This also supports Radxa CM5 which is twice as powerful/watt as the Raspberry CM5.
Though you'll need USB hub for internet (WiFi/Eth adapter) and audio.
Also shipping takes a few months, which is kinda scary when you don't know the tariffs that far in advance.