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I spent the last half hour with an actual mouse and keyboard connected to my #pocketchip and it improved the experience 100%
There are still some minor problems with the screen resolution to work out, and I'm not going to cart around a mouse and keyboard for the thing, but having used them I can verify that the hardware is every bit as capable as I had hoped.
This showed me that I could, if I had to, ignore the screen resolution problems if the peripherals were more functional.
@ajroach42 I'm tempted to flash the desktop software and hook it up to a TV, but I already know that would be an improvement.
There are still some software hurdles to surmount, but I'll have to define how I want to use the system first.