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Can one install Windows on these?
If you want to run Windows, there are much better options out there for less money.
Nice form factor but it's hard to consider a notebook that's not Ryzen-based these days.
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It is good to see it but a bit ridiculous to see companies marking up the pricing just to install an OS which is pretty simple to do with almost any hardware.
That’s the whole point of it. You get excellent tested comparability and support. For Linux users like me it’s worth the money. I can have Linux and not worry about if my hardware is compatible with the default install. You are paying for support and to make it easy. But scale, as they sell more one assumes the markup will decrease.
Pretending to be a system integrator by buying proprietary Windows hardware and slapping Linux on it is a mug's game.
They were going to start building their own laptops at one point. I'm not sure what happened with that. Of course, nobody except Apple really builds their own hardware these days either (hence the term ODM).
My only main requirement is the hardware needs to support Slackware and Open/Net BSD.
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But a laptop still gives you the option to go work in a park or a café. Anything taxing can be done on a remote server anyway so raw power hardly matters. Personally I don't think I'll ever get a desktop setup.
I don't see the appeal of working in a café. It's like a noisy office, except you need to keep paying for your coffee. Might as well commute to the office where the coffee is part of the deal in my opinion.
Bit some cafés are very quiet, have delicious drinks and food, good music and are (IMO) perfect for some light to mild-focused tasks.
It says 14 hour battery life but how can anyone tell about future longevity? I usually find any other laptop than a macbook has poor long term life. For example I have my macbook (this isn't a pro Apple post but they have damn good battery life and power efficiency) that lasts 10 or more hours after 3-4 years and then a Dell precision 5540 that lasts 10 minutes after 1 year. These aren't exact figures but you get the…
A reasonably priced upscale Linux laptop with open firmware, named after my favorite animal, and a mechanical keyboard. Wow I can't remember the last time some product came along that sounds so perfect for me. I really want to try this because there's no way this can't be awesome. It's like they read our minds and put everything we wanted but never imagined we'd get in one product.
Non-hiDPI display in 2022 is a non-starter. There’s simply not enough pixels to display text correctly with full hd.