It may be time to forget ultrathin laptops and embrace the chonk, just like Daniel Norris did when he designed the extremely cool Chonky Palmtop. This cyberdeck build fits a seven-inch touchscreen, a split keyboard, and all the other necessary internals by stacking them on top of each other and somehow fitting everything into a foldable case.
Norris explained on his GitLab page that he got the idea for the Chonky Palmtop after seeing how close in size the touchscreen, battery cells, and the Corne Keyboard sitting on his desk were. After cobbling together all the internal components, like a PSU, batteries, and a bunch of wiring, the cyberdeck was complete. Norris said it’s been great for web browsing and he can even use the cloud-based CAD program Onshape through Firefox, albeit with some bugs.
