Best Convergence Device ;-)
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That is, a portable device with a screen big enough, with keyboard and pointing
device and with the Ubuntu: the Lenovo X61 [2] fits perfectly into this
definition.

It is not much heavier than my tablet with a keyboard and a mouse, it's battery
life is not much worse (if it is worse at all), it's keyboard is much more
comfortable and the actual speed is comparable (IMHO it's faster than my
tablet). And I can save weight by using the SSD drive instead of the old
harddisk. It runs a full Ubuntu, not the limited Ubuntu Touch and I thing that
it is an advantage, too. It also has a full-featured USB (2.0).

Hopefully this ancient piece of hardware will not break in short time... (there
already are hardware issues).

So I think  more and more that the Convergence thing is not the right
direction. I can imagine that someting like [1] can change the game as a 7"
laptop can be really portable and the device [1] has real operating system and
proper set of ports but I'm avare about the quality and usability of the a
actual product. But simple thing like keyboard nad screen quality can easily
make device unusable - and there is a huge amount of nice portable devices wich
looks good on pictures but are useless in reality. And some of them closely
resemble that thing. The [1] is probably too expensive to get it just to try if
it is useful. So I will probably had to use the X61 until it dies.



References:

[1] https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/gpd-pocket-7-0-umpc-laptop-ubuntu-or-win-10-os-laptop--2#/
[2] http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:X61