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StarFighter 16 inch: 4K Coreboot/Ryzen Linux laptop

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Re: StarFighter 16 inch: 4K Coreboot/Ryzen Linux laptop

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Post by usrusr »

jvdvegt wrote: post #106
orangepurple wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wait until you find out that every place in the Netherlands and Germany charges you money to take a piss or a dump. Even places like McDonalds and gas stations. Some people make sure it goes on the side of the building instead.

Restaurants don't charge you for toilet usage in NL 0r DE when you are a paying customer, neither does McDonald's. (Yes, it's up for debate whether that's a restaurant :))

It does happen, in certain locations and under certain circumstances. And I really can't blame them, when toilet-only visitors start outnumbering paying customers by a considerable margin. When all your anecdotal data is from Oktoberfest surroundings and the like you might come to certain conclusions.

Re: StarFighter 16 inch: 4K Coreboot/Ryzen Linux laptop

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Post by perihelions »

chx wrote: post #54
hedora wrote: post #2

This 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…

> Am I missing something? Yeah. The company is three people with practically no money at hand. I can't imagine this being real. Check "full accounts made up to 28 February 2022" https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/c... with cash at hand being just 13,887 pounds. How on earth are you making a laptop from that? Framework started with a nine million seed round and had the former head of hardware a…

- "Note there's no doxxing here,"

How on Earth could a customer looking up a vendor's business information be construed doxxing? Do you guys -- I'm asking sincerely, I'm feeling extraordinarily confused and out-of-touch -- think there's some of genuine privacy interest here that you'd wish to respect? Some sort of "right to anonymous business", where you can hide all your sketchiness behind a shell company and people need to *morally* respect your wishes?

Because, if I heard someone "doxxed" a company's ownership and financial documents non-consensually, all I'd have to say to them is "good on you, Wall Street Journal".

Re: StarFighter 16 inch: 4K Coreboot/Ryzen Linux laptop

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Post by ginko »

lucb1e wrote: post #177
ginko wrote: post #174

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

That's not a laptop.

Re: StarFighter 16 inch: 4K Coreboot/Ryzen Linux laptop

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Post by usrusr »

bboygravity wrote: post #143
hedora wrote: post #2

This 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…

Just the number 1 most important spec of any large screen laptop: the weight?

https://de.starlabs.systems/pages/starfighter-specification

1.4 kg, so considerably heavier than the LG gram 16 (that unfortunately isn't available in 32G+) but also far from being an outlier in the other direction

Re: StarFighter 16 inch: 4K Coreboot/Ryzen Linux laptop

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Post by openplatypus »

aetherspawn wrote: post #34

Honestly as a business customer I can’t justify buying this unless there is an option to unbrand it. (Actually if you had a unbranding option we could sticker it with our own company logo and that could be pretty cool) Can you imagine the backlash if there’s some IT issue and someone realises that it’s not a Dell or Lenovo (why didn’t you just buy from big 2?), or how embarrassing it might be to go to a profile busin…

My uni friend is a CTO in large consultancy. He attended meetings with Razer laptop.

You've got it wrong.

Yes, I imagine some prehistoric corporations might have a problem with non corpo laptop.

Luckily the rest of the world has moved on.

Re: StarFighter 16 inch: 4K Coreboot/Ryzen Linux laptop

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Post by cpfohl »

Brian_K_White wrote: post #190
TylerE wrote: post #166

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do we really think the build quality of these is even in the same state, much less the same ballpark, as a MBP?

Do we really still think Apple products are the gold standard in hardware?

OS agnostic here (I’ve worked professionally in all three major OSes and on both Apple and a variety of Windows machines, currently enjoying WSL2 on my Dell XPS 9700).

Apple’s laptop hardware still seems to be the gold standard to me. I have 10 year old laptops that still work great. My 2.5 year old Dell is currently with Dell for out of warranty repairs. I have no other windows machines left. All of them had an 4ish year lifespan are now dead and were not worth fixing. Current machine not withstanding; it’s too young to die.

Edit: I will add that I’m perfectly happy with my other windows machines, just that the build quality was such that I their natural lifespan was simply shorter.

Re: StarFighter 16 inch: 4K Coreboot/Ryzen Linux laptop

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Post by darrenf »

pmontra wrote: post #167

There are many great features in this laptop, mainly no numberpad and 16:10 screen. I didn't check weight and user serviceability. They don't have the keyboard layout for my county (Italy) but I can live with that because my fingers know where keys are and I work with the USA layout most of the time. The only showstopper is the touchpad without physical buttons. I copy and paste text the X11 way by selecting and clic…

Regarding user serviceability, for the Starbook (which I own) they have a complete pictorial disassembly guide: https://support.starlabs.systems/kb/guides/starbook-mk-v-com...

I’d expect the same tbh.

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