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Other Portable Consoles => Ben Nanonote => Topic started by: slaanesh on August 27, 2018, 05:52:58 am

Title: Who has a Ben Nanonote in 2018? And still uses it?
Post by: slaanesh on August 27, 2018, 05:52:58 am: Does anyone actually have a Ben Nanonote apart from myself? I thought 1000+ units were sold, who has one?

I still use mine, I find it quite a nice little machine and the keyboard is great.
Title: Re: Who has a Ben Nanonote in 2018? And still uses it?
Post by: pcercuei on August 27, 2018, 01:57:43 pm: I wish I had one, I'd be able to update the upstream Linux kernel. The Ben Nanonote support is in a terrible state right now, and it's getting into my way for upstreaming other JZ SoCs.
Title: Re: Who has a Ben Nanonote in 2018? And still uses it?
Post by: gameblabla on August 27, 2018, 10:32:03 pm: Upstream kernel support would be very nice for this small laptop...
But to be fair, i don't know what you could do with it apart from maybe Apple II+ emulation of course given it's less than stellar SoC...
I tried looking for one (for curiosity) but it seems that they are even rarer than Dingoos.
Title: Re: Who has a Ben Nanonote in 2018? And still uses it?
Post by: slaanesh on September 06, 2018, 01:52:08 am: It's actually pretty good for emulation, I've ported a whole lot of stuff to it... dosbox, temper (pc engine), mame4all, nethack, rogue and sms_sdl (sega master), castaway (atari st) to name a few.
The keyboard on it is nice for emulating computers, such as dosbox. Controls are okay for arcade stuff, not brilliant, but pretty good. The battery life, like all jz47xx device is amazingly good.

Any yeah, they are super rare. I bought mine originally from eBay many years ago - was lucky enough to find one after they were released.

I wish someone would release an updated version of this with a jz4770 inside! Would be very nice!
Title: Re: Who has a Ben Nanonote in 2018? And still uses it?
Post by: xdpirate on February 20, 2019, 11:51:42 am: I still have one in its box. I used to be active in using it (did some minor dev work as well), but since the advent of more sophisticated smartphones (and the 3DS), it's sadly not seen much use aside from as a curiosity to show off to friends every once in a while ("Look at this tiny Linux computer I have!").
Title: Re: Who has a Ben Nanonote in 2018? And still uses it?
Post by: slaanesh on May 14, 2019, 07:16:28 am: Quote from: xdpirate on February 20, 2019, 11:51:42 am
I still have one in its box. I used to be active in using it (did some minor dev work as well), but since the advent of more sophisticated smartphones (and the 3DS), it's sadly not seen much use aside from as a curiosity to show off to friends every once in a while ("Look at this tiny Linux computer I have!").

You want to sell it to @pcercuei ? :)
Title: Re: Who has a Ben Nanonote in 2018? And still uses it?
Post by: _-Caleb-_ on October 11, 2019, 12:14:15 am: Hi, im looking for buy one... If anyone want sell we can talk

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Title: Re: Who has a Ben Nanonote in 2018? And still uses it?
Post by: RankXeroxZ on November 11, 2020, 02:08:36 pm: hi guys, i still have 2 of them and don't use them.
they're complete in box and in very good shape.

I originally bought them to write an article on a french forum and photos are still visible above but i think i can't give the link here. (?)
Title: Re: Who has a Ben Nanonote in 2018? And still uses it?
Post by: Surkow on November 11, 2020, 03:32:32 pm: Quote from: RankXeroxZ on November 11, 2020, 02:08:36 pm
hi guys, i still have 2 of them and don't use them.
they're complete in box and in very good shape.

I originally bought them to write an article on a french forum and photos are still visible above but i think i can't give the link here. (?)

It is fine to link them here. But perhaps hotlinking won't work.
Title: Re: Who has a Ben Nanonote in 2018? And still uses it?
Post by: RankXeroxZ on November 11, 2020, 07:16:05 pm: ok Surkow, thx. ;)

here it is: http://www.open-consoles-news.fr/2016/02/les-reviews-retrogaming-le-ben-nanonote.html (http://www.open-consoles-news.fr/2016/02/les-reviews-retrogaming-le-ben-nanonote.html)

i kept them in a box since 'm done with the article, if needed i will test them and post pics too. see u, bye.