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Reminded me somewhat of "A small notebook for a system administrator": https://habr.com/en/post/437912/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19052688
The domain may have given a hint, but my first thought upon seeing the pictures was "this looks like a very stereotypically Russian/former-USSR design" --- it does not even try to be elegant or beautiful at all, but has a very practical and functional aesthetic.
I like how almost all the ports are on the right. You will not want to use a mouse with this machine if you're a righty, there will be at least one cable in the way.
I am rightly, but a few years ago I tried to use the mouse with the left hand. To my surprise it took just couple of days to adjust. Clearly with the right hand I could press buttons faster, but the precision of mouse positioning was just as good.
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There are a number of times I've had to present something, and the "non-VGA" laptop crowd was unable to, for various reasons, but a VGA port will cut the crap and get you an image on screen no matter what. It's wet? Stepped on it? Bent pins? It'll still work, dammit. Maybe your slides will have a blue tint, but you'll get em up there. This is also the advantage that analog signals have over digital ones: HDMI is basi…
"All or nothing" isn't necessarily a problem. The problem is when it's "nothing" too often.
Misleading title. A 12.5" laptop is pretty normal these days. The One Mix Yoga 2S, the spiritual successor of the Vaio P, the first ever 7" laptop with a proper CPU (=Intel Core instead of Atom) and proper storage (= SSD instead of eMMC and then NVMe at that). I am in love with that thing.
It's still tiny for a laptop, even if a credit card sized laptop based on a rpi would exist. A normal size is 15.6, large is above that and small is below. You can't properly work on a screen smaller than 14" or so, and I'm sure there'll be lots of people that tell me they work on this in the train every day just fine (the logic being "when challenged, we can find many people on HN that are fine squinting at a 7 inch…
Bit of a blanket statement. I’m totally happy on my 11" Macbook Air still. Full-screen browser on one workspace, full-screen Sublime on another and full-screen terminal on the third. Trivial to cmd-tab between them, and the portability gains massively outweigh any benefits of having all windows open at the same time, especially if I have an external monitor available at most workspaces.
Misleading title. A 12.5" laptop is pretty normal these days. The One Mix Yoga 2S, the spiritual successor of the Vaio P, the first ever 7" laptop with a proper CPU (=Intel Core instead of Atom) and proper storage (= SSD instead of eMMC and then NVMe at that). I am in love with that thing.
It's still tiny for a laptop, even if a credit card sized laptop based on a rpi would exist. A normal size is 15.6, large is above that and small is below. You can't properly work on a screen smaller than 14" or so, and I'm sure there'll be lots of people that tell me they work on this in the train every day just fine (the logic being "when challenged, we can find many people on HN that are fine squinting at a 7 inch…
I think the 13-inch Macbook Pro is a fairly good counterpoint. There are plenty (millions) of people who use them as their primary computer every day. Personally I tend to have mine plugged into a monitor, but I also do plenty of work on it freestanding.
A ThinkPad-X220-sized laptop would still be absolutely acceptable both in size and weight, and could have all (or at least, most of) the ports that one could need.
And swappable battery, keyboard, ram, disk etc.
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Sadly, the trend has been to copy Apple. Even Lenovo has been taking some Apple design cues into Thinkpads. While Macs are good, it's better to have more variety and different design compromises to choose from. Especially, if you run Linux as only a tiny proportion of sold models will have trouble-free hardware. So I applaud this move by VAIO. The same frustrating thing happens in the smartphone market. Practically n…
Haven't seen any copy Apple's trackpad size, unfortunately. They're copying the wrong things.
To gi e you some context, I always traded touchpad surface for three physical buttons. They're very convenient when working in Linux. All I need from the touchpad is pointer movement and scrolling.