So I thought I share this shock I got a alert as I popped on to the Kickstarter page, these guys actually want my address as if to say hey we ready to send this.

link to the page https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tangibleinstruments/arpeggio-the-portable-arpeggiator-sequencer-and-sy

After getting scammed with the supcutter project, I have learnt to be more suspicious.

This one that popped up in my KS suggestions does triggers many flags. It is very vague and high level info, expensive but not too much. And I was actually not surprised to see the superbaker Jon Lamkin again that is here to defend the project!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/chawkelab/chawke-powerful-and-versatile-ultrasonic-cutter/comments

Very very similar to the supcutter scam, see by yourself: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1154298676/supcutter-the-powerful-and-safe-board-cutting-tool/comments

Cutting tools seems to be a good scam zone for that team...

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/journeythroughstars/help-me-capture-the-night-sky-my-dream-of-astrophotography

Pledges are 150 / 250 / 406

I admire the hobby itself as someone who just started - but woof....this is asking a lot for someone who, seemingly, has never even used astrophotography equipment.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/parkeasy/parkeasy

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/studiosmokescreen/adulting-animated-series-pilot

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/97742651/trimax-pro-triple-screens-that-instantly-expand-your-laptop

What's wrong here? In very broad strokes, you can't make a modern laptop as a KS campaign, it doesn't work. The scale, the timeline etc all works against you.

However, when you see a piece of hardware with a timeline where production starts two months after the Kickstarter starts and shipping is set one month after you know it's an Alibaba resale. It can not be anything else. The struggles any real hardware maker faces are testimony to this.

Triple screen is not such a bad idea. I myself ran such a setup (the screen is edited out, not broken) but I am not so sure whether baking such a thing into the laptop itself is a good idea but that would debate the campaign on merit.

So the reasons I am thinking this is shitty

1. The keyboard photo is obviously AI and quite wrong -- not just the fingers but the keyboard has too many rows too many columns and is depicting a desktop keyboard, not a laptop one
2. Putting the touchpad above the keyboard is asinine.
3. The specifications lack all things physical. Weight and thickness prominent among them. The silence is deafening.
4. B&O Tuned Audio System. If that's Bang & Olufsen then they are HP exclusive in laptops so this is a lie, if that's not what B&O means then this is a lie too because everyone expects it to be Bang & Olufsen.
5. Read/Write Speed 2000MB/s -- say what? The r/w speed of what? 'Cos, you know, these days, that's not a nice speed for an external drive. If it's internal, I don't want to know which trash can you fished that SSD out of.
6. Cooling Efficiency -- does this sport a refrigerator or what? I can't make heads or tails of this in this context.
7. AMD 7735HS is hopelessly outdated even now, it's two gens behind. By Christmas when you get this thing, it'll be just embarrassing in a new laptop.
8. Graphics Card -- integrated/dedicated graphics. Well yes, those are the possible options a laptop can have. As for 8GB-64GB, I am just shaking my head especially because the laptop purportedly has a fixed 32GB RAM and carving 64GB out of 32GB is ...

And so forth.

Is this a scam? Perhaps. If it is not then ... I don't think you will like what you get.

I get a laugh when I see dead projects and folks posting....I invoke my rights.... Then one after the other keeps posting this as though some magical process opens. I just don't udnerstand how folks keep getting ripped off over and over again. The worst are just the endless delays until everyone is worn out waiting and the anger subsuides. I just don't get why at this point anyone is backing technology projects there.