"Look how spacious my set-up is"
Mousepad is half hanging off the table
this post was submitted on 08 Jul 2026
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Also totally isn't the laptop bag folded in half ๐ซฃ
I have a 400
Nice! Love projects like this.
I have a crowview with some custom cords/setup as my laptop pi. It goes on all trips to meetups. Its a fun little setup.
WTF does that even mean?
As per the previous post from some months back, linked at the end of the OP, I had considered a Raspberry Pi set up as a laptop replacement could be smaller than one. But as someone in the older post had pointed out, it could end up being as big as one. And as explained in the OP also, I got the chance to test that out and I could finally test that out, and end up seeing it indeed can take a generous amount of space.
Makes sense now?
Your use of "spacious" is quite explosive.
Oooooooooh.
Is it too rare of a word in English? If so, sorry if it caused any confusions. "<.<
There's flexibility with Pis that can let them be smaller when you need it. Hackberry Pi CM5 for example takes much less space compared to a laptop. Obviously the builtin screen and keyboard are also much more limited than a laptop though. Both of those can be fixed by attaching a display and a keyboard when needed though. Plug in display glasses and you've still got a setup that takes much less space than a laptop. I also like that you can plug in a Pi to a desktop dock anywhere so if you have the ability to configure a space for yourself you could just bring the Pi in your pocket to it.
Even in a laptop bag it gets rather big, though much lighter than the laptop that I would originally put in this bag. I think the biggest problem though, and that no smaller screen or keyboard would help, is that the cables take a lot of space, proportionally far more than the hardware.
The pi is pretty slow too, compared to a basic x86 laptop. I use a Logitech K40 wireless keyboard (USB dongle, not bluetooth) that has a built in trackpad though. So that gets rid of the mouse and two cables, and you can actually use it in your lap.
I use a pi 5 as a basic browser/media streamer in my living room. It handles most streaming just fine, but for some reason YT is sluggish. I have to reboot the pi every other day or so, otherwise YT crashes the browser. Other sites seem to work fine though.