Did anyone else notice the design of the arrow keys on the keyboard? That design drove me nuts when I used one of the Apple keyboards like that.
I don’t think I could stand that.
StarBook 14-inch
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#122Did anyone else notice the design of the arrow keys on the keyboard? That design drove me nuts when I used one of the Apple keyboards like that. I don’t think I could stand that.
I could get used to that, but the letters and space bar seem to be off center. It looks like they added a column or two of keys to the right of the enter key.
Is that a UK thing, or is the US layout also off center?
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#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
I do not count Thinkpad as open enough to be in the same segment anymore. I have owned many generations of them and some are still in use but will not be getting a newer one the way things look now. One practical aspect is how they are very inconsistent in making crucial firmware updates available. In theory, they're on fwupd/LVFS. In practice, that can lag behind by months or even years and the only way to get neces…
It is only the trackpoint that locked me on ThinkPad. There is IMHO clearly a user base that would be willing to move away from Lenovo only if they could get an open replacement for that single part...
Yeah me too, the trackpoint keeps me at ThinkPads for my daily driver (I have experimented with others like the Pinebook Pro, but (underpoweredness aside) the lack of the trackpoint kills the deal for me...
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#124I was under the impression that no AMD processor is supported by coreboot. Why would this no name vendor be the first to get that working?
Not no AMD processor; Chromebooks use AMD+coreboot (https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMD-Core...). Beyond that, I couldn't say; it may be as simple as "nobody else cared".
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#125Running this website without JS is pretty funny:
> Intel® Core® 0 th generation processors
> Ryzen™ 0 processor
> Up to 0 GB 3200MHz memory
And so on.
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#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's funny; my reaction is the opposite. Yes, I think the barrel charging port is good to have, but only because there is just a single USB-C port. I don't want a barrel port! I have USB-C chargers littered around my house already! And that's how I like it! And I definitely don't want my default to have to be using adapters for my USB-C devices, so they can be plugged into the USB-A ports.
I guess my experience with USB charging ports is that they always break, and then they're a huge pain to fix, and my experience with barrel charging ports is that they almost never break, and then fixing them is pretty easy. So I think of a computer that can only be charged via USB as a piece of cheap trash. Maybe USB-C is different on this axis; I don't know yet. I really miss barrel charging ports on cellphones. I…
Ah, interesting. I guess I've been much luckier; I've never had a USB-C charging port break on me.
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> The biggest disadvantage seems to be that the screen is bog-standard 16:9. Bigger than that IMO is 14" @ 1080p. It's just too little for daily use for me. Framework are so far the only ones in this market segment who have ever marketed >1080p laptop displays AFAIK. I have a hard time understanding why there is such a lack of higher-res panel options across the market, even when seemingly all other relevant specs ar…
What's your upper size limit for 1440p?
The key is to just stop caring about absolute pixel count. All that matters is the angular pixel density, with regular pixel density being sufficient when compared within a “class” of viewing distance (e.g. handheld, laptop, desktop, couch).
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#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Framework are so far the only ones in this market segment who have ever marketed >1080p laptop displays AFAIK. Dell has sold their Linux-ready "developer edition" XPS 13 with a UHD+ screen for quite a few years now. (They max out at 16GB of RAM, though, unfortunately.) Dell isn't quite as "open" as something like Framework or System76 (or Star Labs), but they at least sell their Developer Edition laptop with Ubuntu…
The post-Ice Lake models of the XPS series all support 32GB of RAM on the Developer Editions; I have one. Until that point this was Intel's fault because before then they were behind on their memory controllers, nothing Dell could do about it. Fingerprint reader support for Linux in general has been a sticking point for a very long time, including on the XPS series. (I still fondly remembering the blobs needed for my…
Ah, strange. I'd just looked at Dell's site, but couldn't configure the Developer Edition for anything over 16GB. Probably my fault I couldn't figure it out... plus their order/configure site is terrible.
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#129Do I understand correctly that this is capable of charging over USB-C, and includes a USB-C power supply, but the default charging cable is USB-C -> DC barrel jack? So you can charge over USB-C, but only if you buy a C-to-C cable and tie up the single USB-C port.
Maybe they figure people would rather use the C port for something else? I feel like a barrel jack may be more resilient, if you're plugging it in twice a day.
Yup, at the same time it allows people to use USB-C for charging, which might easily be the case with some of those usb-c hubs that also provide charge to the device.
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#130So close. I really want a laptop with a "2K" 4:3 aspect ratio 14" screen, 64GB of ECC ram, a Ryzen processor, and an M.2 SSD.
Would be interesting to get a nice web cam too but that is less important to me. I'm also not a huge "thinness" type, thicker is fine if it isn't heavier.