Comment by nxobject

> But now I realize that "ideal" device for me just reaches back to my contextual memory of state of the art devices of the time.

I think as well about that… as well as the work I do that pays my bills, and how efficiently I need to do it to keep my job.

I get nostalgic after Psions. Small clamshell designs are great - I can do work on the go without lugging a fragile laptop!

Well, no, actually - I need to do things in R, _quickly_, at a speed and efficiency that wasn’t possible back in the 90s. And by the time I’m done I don’t have any patience for the virtues of “distraction free computing”!

Edge to edge high resolution screens that can simultaneously show graphics and an terminal and a ChatGPT session. The ability to constantly pipe large datasets into memory to and from disk, while holding up to R’s profligate use of memory.

I’m just not meaningfully productive otherwise. So: I would love this, but it would be a toy that I’m sure I’ll use for a bit while I wax nostalgic about the mythical days people did everything on a VT-100.