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My opinion is somewhat that the last "real" cyberdeck was the Hackberry Pi, which is essentially the Blackberry I always wanted and that they never produced. Due to it being fully open, there's an insane amount of 3d printing community overlap, where people share their upgrades, designs, modifications and customizations.

Raspberry Pi as a platform has revolutionized access to computers in my opinion, though since the RAM crisis started not so much anymore due to the insane price differences. But the Hackberry is the computing device where I think it has lots of potential for being my actual "Linux on the go" that I wanted but never got ... for the last 15(?) years waiting for it.

[1] https://github.com/ZitaoTech/HackberryPiCM5

Depends what you define as a cyberdeck. If you look low power/ non-linux there are many innovative decks: https://hackaday.com/2023/03/06/low-power-challenge-the-pota...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HK0uAKkt0AE colorforth deck

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn0MxHlima0 discrete deck built like the tandy 1000

If Cyberdeck builds get people building, then it's all good. Farming does encourage others to build so it's all heading in the right direction :)

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