New KDE Slimbook launched with Ryzan-4000 series processor
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Re: New KDE Slimbook launched with Ryzan-4000 series processor
#2I have never heard of Slimbook and most of what I can find on Google is in Spanish. Are they any good? Do they design the laptops or are they rebranded like System76's Clevo made laptops?
Re: New KDE Slimbook launched with Ryzan-4000 series processor
#3Unfortunately cloudflare has blocked my access to https://kde.slimbook.es/ :(
Re: New KDE Slimbook launched with Ryzan-4000 series processor
#4Unfortunately cloudflare has blocked my access to https://kde.slimbook.es/ :(
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Re: New KDE Slimbook launched with Ryzan-4000 series processor
#5Unfortunately cloudflare has blocked my access to https://kde.slimbook.es/ :(
Same for me, I just get an Access denied page.
Re: New KDE Slimbook launched with Ryzan-4000 series processor
#6Looks very nice, perhaps the replacement for my MacBook when it finally dies.
Re: New KDE Slimbook launched with Ryzan-4000 series processor
#7Looks rather nice, but "up to 5 hours battery with real use" for the 14" model is pretty awful, to put it mildly. They should get a lot more running time from a 47Wh battery than 5h. Only one USB-C port (apparently without charging support?) is pretty stingy, too. And one of the USB-A ports is only USB 2.0? WTF
Re: New KDE Slimbook launched with Ryzan-4000 series processor
#8I have never heard of Slimbook and most of what I can find on Google is in Spanish. Are they any good? Do they design the laptops or are they rebranded like System76's Clevo made laptops?
Someone at Phoronix[1] forums suspected it to be made by TongFang. Seems to be same laptop which Tuxedo[3] is also selling.
[1] https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoron... [2] https://www.reddit.com/r/AMDLaptops/comments/hunyv6/my_mechr... [3] https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/Linux-Hardware/Linux-Note...
Re: New KDE Slimbook launched with Ryzan-4000 series processor
#9Looks rather nice, but "up to 5 hours battery with real use" for the 14" model is pretty awful, to put it mildly. They should get a lot more running time from a 47Wh battery than 5h. Only one USB-C port (apparently without charging support?) is pretty stingy, too. And one of the USB-A ports is only USB 2.0? WTF
I would rather be glad them being so honest.
We have a laptops with even smaller batteries from major brands who claim 10+ hours battery life.
13 inch LG Gram used to have a microscopic battery, while they claimed 16 hours of life from it. They got into quagmire with press coverage, and nearly doubled the battery size in the next generation.
Half of battery life on a modern laptop is basically battery size/screen size, and you can't do anything about it except adding a bigger battery.
It's still possible to make a laptop with terrible battery life if you get a single "power hog" part.
For an Intel system, a CPU, and its VRM may take less than 1W in idle, but a bad WiFi card, DP-LVDS bridge, USB hub, Thunderbolt chip, SSD, or terrible power supply can easily blow the power budget above 6-9W in idle.
Even seemingly innocuous parts like SD card readers, keyboard/touchpad controllers, sensors, wacom chips, embedded controllers can be very bad at idle power consumption, to the extent they take more power than idling CPU.
Re: New KDE Slimbook launched with Ryzan-4000 series processor
#10I have never heard of Slimbook and most of what I can find on Google is in Spanish. Are they any good? Do they design the laptops or are they rebranded like System76's Clevo made laptops?
Someone at Phoronix[1] forums suspected it to be made by TongFang. Seems to be same laptop which Tuxedo[3] is also selling. [1] https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoron... [2] https://www.reddit.com/r/AMDLaptops/comments/hunyv6/my_mechr... [3] https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/Linux-Hardware/Linux-Note...
At the moment, Qinghua Tongfang is pretty much the only major OEM using AMD.