The Topjoy Falcon, a tiny 8-inch 2-in-1 laptop, hits Kickstarter

GPD has largely had the tiny PC market on lock in recent years, only a new entrant is ready to hitting the scene: the Topjoy Falcon. Launched today on Kickstarter, the Falcon claims to exist the world's showtime viii-inch two-in-1 laptop, making it larger than some of GPD'south offerings, but still much smaller than your average notebook from the big manufacturers.

On the inside, the Falcon manages to pack in some decent power, because its size. Yous'll find an Intel Pentium Silver N5000 processor, which should go through bones tasks like web browsing and working in Microsoft Part with relative ease. In that location'due south also 8GB of RAM and upwards to 256GB of storage. And that viii-inch display comes in at a 1920x1200 resolution, which should be plenty abrupt given the size.

In terms of ports, there's a single USB Type-C port, one USB Type-A, one HDMI, and a 3.5mm headphone jack.

The laptop'due south small size does come with some potential downsides, notwithstanding. The main catch is that there's non enough room for a traditional trackpad on the base of operations. Instead, yous'll navigate your mouse clicks with an optical sensor prepare betwixt the carve up spacebar keys. The keyboard also looks to have a unique layout, to say the least.

All told, yet, the Falcon is at to the lowest degree an interesting entry for anyone that needs an extremely portable laptop to take on the go. The whole thing simply weighs 1.five pounds, and the touchscreen supports inking with an optional stylus. In terms of battery life, Topjoy is promising upwards to 8 hours between charges.

The Topjoy Falcon is available to dorsum on Kickstarter at present, with pledges starting out at $399 for early birds. Shipments are expected to commencement going out in February, but, as this is Kickstarter, keep in mind that it's ever possible that production issues could pop up and delay commitment.

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