Any keyboard that doesn't have a traditional T-shaped cursor keys layout is pure evil and should be banned.
StarFighter 16 inch: 4K Coreboot/Ryzen Linux laptop
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Re: StarFighter 16 inch: 4K Coreboot/Ryzen Linux laptop
#172I need an LTT review on this.
No, we need a notebookcheck.net review instead. LTT doesn't know anything about Linux anyway.
Re: StarFighter 16 inch: 4K Coreboot/Ryzen Linux laptop
#173This Linux laptop looks too good to be true. It's available with an AMD or Intel processor, there aren't any strange ergonomic decisions (other than the stow-able web-cam). In particular, they centered they trackpad + keyboard, and it looks like it has decent thermals. The battery is rated for 18 hours. You can choose between a medium resolution, high frame rate display (UHD @ 165Hz) or a 4K 60Hz display. The screen…
> strange ergonomic decisions
The keyboard is offset to the left because of the extra row of vertical keys on the right, so touch typists will have their right hand shifted toward the left more than normal. But the trackpad is still centered on the frame... so the right hand will be greatly overlapping the trackpad.
Visually, having the trackpad centered relative to the G/H keys would look imbalanced, but it would be ergonomic. But unfortunately they went for visual style over ergonomics on this one.
Re: StarFighter 16 inch: 4K Coreboot/Ryzen Linux laptop
#174Earlier quoted context omitted.
actually agree. Also considering their "kill switch" marketing. Who needs to turn their internet off on a whim who doesn't already have some sort of keybind to do this? Why buy this over framework / other laptop for 25% more money. Don't really understand
Because Framework is only available at, what seems to me like, tablet sizes. I know a lot of people love that size and that's fantastic, but I'm happy to see a ~15.6" option also being offered for those that prefer it.
If anything I wish framework had a laptop in the 11-12" range.
Re: StarFighter 16 inch: 4K Coreboot/Ryzen Linux laptop
#175Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you have an example of a such a laptop at 25-50% cheaper? The models I've seen from Dell and Lenovo with 4k screens and 64 GB ram tend to be in the 2500 EUR range. And, for some reason, you usually can't get this much RAM and a 4k screen with an AMD CPU. HP has EliteBooks with upgradeable RAM (both slots!) so you could do your own upgrade, but you'd have to put up with a ridiculously crappy screen. I also don't kn…
> HP has EliteBooks with upgradeable RAM (both slots!) so you could do your own upgrade, but you'd have to put up with a ridiculously crappy screen. I also don't know if they've upgraded to ryzen 6000. They have, I'm typing on one. The display I have is crappy BUT they have four or five different displays in the 14" 16:10 format and swapping one for another is relatively simple.
OK, I seen they have Gen9 models available with ryzen 6000, and still have upgradable DIMMS. However, to the original poster's point, they ask a little over 1700 EUR for an 8 GB RAM machine. Upgrading to 64 would bring it around 2000 EUR, and you'd still be stuck with a shitty screen.
On my Gen8 model, I have the "high-end" display. It's admittedly very bright, but the colors and viewing angles are terrible. Some say it's because it has the privacy screen. That may be the case for the viewing angles, but the colors are atrocious even judging by the specs. At work, they have no privacy screens and colors still suck. At best, you get something like 72% NTSC (which is smaller than sRGB). The Gen9 models I see on their French website have a 16:10 ratio (which, I think, is great) but only... 45% NTSC!
Re: StarFighter 16 inch: 4K Coreboot/Ryzen Linux laptop
#176Very, very nice.
Weight is 1.4 kg so a tad heavy (my 17" LG gram is 1.3kg)
If it had an NVidia GPU, it'd be perfect for my purpose.
[EDIT]: argh, I take it back: no numpad, so can't use Blender seriously on it.
Re: StarFighter 16 inch: 4K Coreboot/Ryzen Linux laptop
#177Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because Framework is only available at, what seems to me like, tablet sizes. I know a lot of people love that size and that's fantastic, but I'm happy to see a ~15.6" option also being offered for those that prefer it.
If anything I wish framework had a laptop in the 11-12" range.
Isn't there a Samsung Tab in that size range? I seem to remember that being ten point something but it's been a few years
Re: StarFighter 16 inch: 4K Coreboot/Ryzen Linux laptop
#178Back in the old DDR4 people used to say extremely high frequency ram (lets says above 3600MHz), that normally was O.C'd, would make your system unstable. Any one knows if it still happens in these DDR5 days? I'm asking because 6400MHz seems ludicrously high for a guy like me that just last week got some good old 2400MHz sticks for my home server and I'm wondering if it isn't marketing just to show high numbers.
The actual ram internally doesn't clock that fast, and many in fact run at the same rate as in the ddr4 days. The interface tackes the high rate down to a much lower rate but with more data flowing in parallel. But the ratio is locked, so if you overclock, the ram rate has to go up too, which is most likely what makes it unstable.
So the upshot is that if this 6400Mhz device is not overclocked, it shouldn't be unstable.
Re: StarFighter 16 inch: 4K Coreboot/Ryzen Linux laptop
#179If they can deliver and be alive this time next year I'm ordering one.
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#180Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have literally never seen a restaurant anywhere in the world that charges for tap water, and I eat out constantly. Is this a thing now somewhere?
Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, and more limited experience in Luxembourg. (I've been to more places but honestly don't remember what drink prices were like in Finland ten years ago, let alone remembering what the Icelandic króna prices amounted to when I was there more recently.) It's often not offered because it sounds like asking for a free drink instead of paying ~13 euros per liter which seems to be the average n…
They charge more for these things because people will pay it and they like making more money