8" inch with 3 usb ports is getting into meme device territory, the Lenovo Tablet 10 (lenovo.com) has 21 USB-A +1 USB-C on the tablet portion.
Obviously this is old as shit, but it's not really meme territory. Old piece of shit (newegg.com)
Actually, GPD (gpd.hk) makes these handheld "laptops", some of them have a lot of I/O.
Problem is the terrible Intel chips they use. The Celeron series chips they use have fewer cores and/or threads than the embeded chip in something like the UDOO Bolt Gear (udoo.org). Which uses a chip that is quite old to begin with.
Comparisons to the embeded ryzen 1605b to some of the chips in the GPD pocket PCs.
Ryzen Embeded 1605b vs Celeron 3965y (cpu-world.com)
Ryzen Embeded 1605b vs Mobile Celeron N4100 (cpu-world.com)
I agree that my best bet is to wait for these chinese knock-off companies to make a good pocket pc for my needs, but it hasn't happened yet. I will just have to patiently wait for the global supply shortage to die down before I have a chance to buy one.
The closest I imagine would be the later gen Thinkpad 11e, smaller laptops were killed by shitty tablets.
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