Looking forward to QubesOS compatibility report :)
StarFighter 16 inch: 4K Coreboot/Ryzen Linux laptop
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Re: StarFighter 16 inch: 4K Coreboot/Ryzen Linux laptop
#242Pricing seems extremely high for the specs once you start to configure. I really want to see a company do something compelling here but there is always one thing that's off...pricing, screen, last gen processors. I switched back to Linux last year and ended up getting a $900 Lenovo that has been excellent. Would have tried System76 or Framework if their hardware could keep up.
Prices are extremely high before you configure. These are apple prices without an apple warranty. When I had keyboard issues I had my laptop flown out with 1 day overnight shipping and the same back to me. When the refurb I purchased has a loose hinge, I got a full refund with no hassle. When my laptop was stolen during delivery, I got a replacement sent out with a 12 minute phone call. I suspect this small operation…
Fair, but you certainly pay for this in other ways with apple. I can afford to buy 2-3 laptops for the price you pay for one. And in most cases those types of events never come into play. Apple crushes on battery life but I've yet to come close to needing that much, performance is similar otherwise.
Re: StarFighter 16 inch: 4K Coreboot/Ryzen Linux laptop
#243Earlier quoted context omitted.
If real, it wouldn't surprise me. A laptop isn't special. The most special part is the motherboard, and those are a dime a dozen designs. The bios soft is the other big component, but given the right partnerships I could see a small company just paying to use one out of a dozen various vendors. The rest of the work is part sourcing.
What about the custom plastic parts? Aren't those injection moulded? If so, how much is a mould?
Now I'm thinking about whether I could CNC a laptop case from a brick of aluminum...
Re: StarFighter 16 inch: 4K Coreboot/Ryzen Linux laptop
#244Considering these two processors:
Intel® Core® i9-12900H (2.50GHz 14-core / Turbo Boost up to 5.00GHz)
AMD Ryzen™ 7 (3.20GHz 8-core 6800H / Boost clock up to 4.70GHz)
Or does the Intel outperform the Ryzen pretty much unilaterally?
Re: StarFighter 16 inch: 4K Coreboot/Ryzen Linux laptop
#245Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do we really still think Apple products are the gold standard in hardware?
Genuinely curious what is better. MacBook Pros have been the gold standard for a while and now with the ARM chips they are pretty much unbeatable in my eyes.
Thinkpad for me is the gold standard because I can swap out the components and they have videos and guides of how to do so on their website. Their materials are sturdy and light.
MacBooks may use some nice materials, and their processors are interesting, but for a customer like me that prefers to install the hardware and software of my choice either today or in ten years, they have no products I'm interested in.
I've never had to sell or retire any machine I've had in the last twenty years, they're all somewhere doing something right now.
Re: StarFighter 16 inch: 4K Coreboot/Ryzen Linux laptop
#246Key column to the right of the enter key, that's a nope for me.
Re: StarFighter 16 inch: 4K Coreboot/Ryzen Linux laptop
#247Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have their latest starbook, just arrived a couple months ago and it is stellar. Covid delayed it almost a whole year, but in that time they upgraded frob adwertised 11th gen intel to 12th gen for free, quadrupling cores. It runs extremeley well with latest coreboot and everything. I considered canceling my pre-order because of the long delay, but Support was extremely quick and receptive and it turns out the trust…
How is the sound quality? Is it comparable to a MacBook?
I'm really curious about people that actually use laptop speakers. Even the best laptop speakers I've heard (I've heard MacBook speakers too) sound terrible. Other than for a quick video or demo or whatever, who is seriously listening to videos or music on laptop speakers... And why??? Even a cheap pair of earbuds sounds better to me.
Re: StarFighter 16 inch: 4K Coreboot/Ryzen Linux laptop
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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?
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.
Are there public restrooms available in those places? If not, that's extremely frustrating. I don't understand why more places don't have public restrooms. People are gonna poop one way or the other.
Re: StarFighter 16 inch: 4K Coreboot/Ryzen Linux laptop
#249Considering these two processors: Intel® Core® i9-12900H (2.50GHz 14-core / Turbo Boost up to 5.00GHz) and AMD Ryzen™ 7 (3.20GHz 8-core 6800H / Boost clock up to 4.70GHz) Would the Ryzen actually be faster on average on single-core workloads since it's base spec is 3.20GHz vs the intel's base spec 2.50GHZ? (Not sure how long single core's can Boost for) Or does the Intel outperform the Ryzen pretty much unilaterally?
Depends somewhat on workload. Generally the 12900H wins but there are some loads (e.g. handbrake) where the 6800H wins: https://www.techspot.com/review/2487-amd-ryzen-6800h/
Re: StarFighter 16 inch: 4K Coreboot/Ryzen Linux laptop
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From experience on Windows, "very old toolkits" includes QT5. It gets very confused if the scaling changes while the screen is closed.
I only have experience with this on Linux, where at least it supports scaling, so that if you use a constant one (my case), then it's OK. Older ones will simply ignore the scaling settings and draw the interface 1-to-1. One such application that comes to mind is VMWare's remote console (for esx). I haven't used it in a few years, but I remember at the time it was painful to run on a 24" UHD screen. On the windows sid…
It's not that it ignores it, it's that it tried to handle it and gets confused. I move fairly frequently between my 3x laptop screen and a 1x external monitor, and at this point I've got used to either the app logo randomly being a third the size it should be in the start bar or the text rendering three times as big as it should in the app.