![]() If you want to turn the S8 or S8 Plus into a PC, you're going to need a bunch of extra parts. Unfortunately, as impressive as DeX can be, the answer for most people is a big ol' "no." The real question now isn't about how feasible the idea is, it's whether anyone should bother. And yet, here we are - the Galaxy S8 doubles as a surprisingly respectable PC. Just look at Motorola's Atrix or Microsoft's Continuum or any of the startups languishing on Kickstarter. After all, this isn't a new idea.Ĭompanies have tried - and mostly failed - to make smartphones work like PCs for years now. In fact, the me from three or four years ago would've done the same. ![]() Ten-year-old me would be losing it if he saw this. The kicker: It's far better than I dared expect. I'm writing this on a Galaxy S8 Plus - a metal-and-glass slab I just pulled out of my pocket - connected to a monitor, keyboard and mouse with Samsung's new DeX dock. The decade and change that followed brought staggering leaps in performance and huge reductions in size. It was ugly and slow, even by 1998 standards, but it (somehow) got the job done. My family's first computer was a boxy, squat Tatung with an AMD K2, a handful of RAM and a 4GB hard drive. ![]()
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