Their video says all of it. Its official web page brags it could possibly “Rework your Librem 5 right into a laptop computer.”
But it surely all apparently began as a result of Purism is proud that their Librem 5 line of telephones run “the identical desktop functions as our full-sized computer systems, simply on a smaller screens,” based on the announcement by Purism president Kyle Rankin:
When solely utilizing the Librem 5 in its cell type issue, it is easy to miss that that is occurring, as adaptive functions morph to suit the smaller display…. It is solely once you dock the Librem 5 that you just actually expertise the facility of convergence…. We’ve needed to supply a lapdock package to clients for a while now, and I’ve personally evaluated nearly the entire choices obtainable to select which one would greatest showcase the Librem 5. I am so joyful to announce that at the moment we’re launching our new Lapdock Equipment and on this submit I’ll clarify a bit extra about what’s included and why it is an amazing companion to a Librem 5 or Librem 5 USA.
A lapdock is a docking station (or “dock”) mixed with a laptop computer shell. One strategy to docking your Librem 5 is to get a USB-C hub and connect it to an influence provide, monitor, keyboard and mouse, and we even promote these equipment for our Librem 5. Now think about taking all of these parts and squeezing them right into a laptop computer form-factor, add a battery to energy it, and you’ve got a lapdock.
From the surface a lapdock appears no completely different from an ordinary laptop computer, however the distinction is {that a} lapdock has no CPU, RAM or storage of its personal. As an alternative, it makes use of the Librem 5 as the pc. As soon as docked, the Librem 5’s display extends to the lapdock display, and you should utilize the keyboard and mouse on the lapdock to pull home windows forwards and backwards between screens. The entire functions are operating on the Librem 5 and as soon as docked, it behaves like a laptop computer operating PureOS. Even higher, the lapdock’s battery prices the Librem 5 whereas it is docked, extending its run time. After evaluating plenty of completely different choices, we’ve got determined to supply the Nexdock 360 in our Lapdock Equipment….
The Lapdock Equipment means that you can notice the facility of getting all your apps and all your knowledge in a single system that may slot in your pocket and act like a cellphone once you want it to, however then remodel right into a laptop computer once you need to kind out an electronic mail, do some picture modifying or watch a video on a bigger display. The Lapdock Equipment additionally means that you can run hundreds of different desktop functions that have not but been up to date to adapt to a cellphone’s display. Conventional Linux functions like the total LibreOffice suite, GIMP, Wireshark, Gqrx and lots of others run properly on the Librem 5 with the addition of the Lapdock Equipment’s additional display actual property.
“It demonstrates why we check with the Librem 5 as a cell laptop in your pocket, and never simply as a cellphone.”
