No 6000 series Ryzen... Looks decent though.
StarBook 14-inch
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#322Earlier quoted context omitted.
> when MBA/MBP are consistently achieving 10-16+ with real-world use. I never get more than a couple hours on my MBP, 2.5-3 tops.
Let me guess the device is over two years old, your display is always above 70% brightness, you have chrome opened with over a dozen tabs, alongside it a bunch of other background apps you don't actually need open. Oh and probably a VM or docker. How close was I? ;-)
The only one that matters is if their MBP is over 2 years old. I got my M1 the week it released and I only run it under the conditions you describe. Sometimes accidentally leaving baldurs gate 3 / Stellaris / Civ6 running in the background.
It still gets a battery life of “oh I showed up to an all-day working session with a friend with 50% battery life and forgot my charger and I don’t have any anxiety about that” battery life.
I think the least it’s ever gotten was around 10 hours. I’m still getting 14+ after a couple years of abusing the battery charge levels.
The iPhone 13 Pro Max is also the first phone I truly never worry about battery life since a late-stage flip phone in 2007. (Or the Samsung S5 Active which had a replaceable battery, I just carried a couple extra around in my pocket).
Re: StarBook 14-inch
#323No high DPI, no buy.
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#324I got one of these in December 2021 and frankly love it. Got fed up with being pretty much the only person on earth who had a shitty experience with Apple Silicon, so jumped back to Linux after 17 years away. I don’t use it as a portable, or at least haven’t yet - it’s my daily driver for work and permanently plugged in to a monitor (which also is a USB hub). I opted for Manjaro and enjoy using it way more than I did…
What put you off the M1? I’m still on an Intel MBP but fear my eventual switch to an M1 will be frustrating.
Me as well - I am super happy with M1. Honestly have never experienced anything that is different from running on Intel - and it is light years faster and quieter and cooler.
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#325Tangantially related, I remember reading the Asahi Linux wiki [0], and was shocked by this statement about Apple Silicon machines. It's fascinating that Apple has a reputation for being anti-libre, yet the hardware they built is arguably very libre-friendly. > This puts them somewhere between x86 PCs and a libre-first system like the Talos II in terms of freedom to replace firmware and boot components; while a number…
>yet the hardware they built is arguably very libre-friendly Well they're already in legal trouble for abusing their iOS market dominance with the new EU proposed legislation, they know the tides are turning against big tech, so they didn't lock down the MacBooks preemptively to brace themselves for what's coming, not because Apple has somehow now become a FOSS supporter. Before you applaud Apple for being too libre…
Honestly I have both a Linux machine and an M1 MacBook Pro - so I am interested in both!
Re: StarBook 14-inch
#326Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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…
> 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…
I had an xps. The battery swells and the charger stopped working, then the replacement charger stopped working. The keyboard and trackpad werent great either
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#327Has anyone here had experience with installing and running Windows on one of these? Not for me, but my wife is in need of a laptop, and I'm wondering how well it would run on this platform. I personally would love to run one of these for work, but IT no likey Linux boxes. Will have to upgrade to an M1 sooner or later (my 2015 MBP is on its last legs).
I would also dual boot for the few times per year I need to do photo editing
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#328STOP WITH THE MINIMALISM. I don't want my laptop to have _the least amount of features_, I want it to have _as many features as makes it useful to me_. These are not fashion accessories, these are life productivity machines. I need 4 USB-A/C ports (at least 2 that are 3.x and fast-charging), an Ethernet jack in the back (not in the way on the side), a lid that doesn't get stuck at 120 degrees, fans in the back, a monitor port (preferably in the back out of the way), a hard drive light, separate volume buttons, 14-16" screen that isn't crap, headphone jack, and easy to upgrade RAM and hard drive.
Laptops these days are RIDICULOUS, poorly-designed, wanna-be Jony Ive slabs that look pretty and are frustrating. We had good designs years ago! What happened?! They've gotten hard to use unless you're a coffee-shop blogger, they used to be easy from kitchen-table user to weekend coder.
Re: StarBook 14-inch
#329Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think my frame.work is doing the "kinda hard" click thing too. Did you just break it in, or change something mechanically? I mostly use the keyboard, so it's a very minor annoyance to me.
ah yes, let me find the instructions! EDIT: this is what fixed it for me: > Pressing the bottom center of the touchpad firmly a few times has resolved the issue in some cases.[1] Said in a slightly different way: > There were also a small number of early units produced that may have contact issues on the physical switch on the Touchpad. Try pressing the bottom middle of the Touchpad firmly a few times to see if that…
Looks like after a few _hard_ presses the problems are gone. Thanks!
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#330Earlier quoted context omitted.
> A non-removable power cord has a big advantage: it's hard to lose it. Lose??? The power cord for a big monitor??? The mental gymnastics are amazing! Good old Stevie J., now turned zombie, still projecting the distortion field.
Not trying to nitpick. Probably the parent might have meant “forget it when moving the monitor to a different place”. This happens more often than one may think once you have trashed the box the monitor came in. But yes, it is a bit strange to write it down as an “advantage”.
Those cables are standard and a dime a dozen.
Well, they are a dime a dozen now, because Apple hasn't gotten their paws on them fully :-)