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StarLite 12.5-inch Linux tablet

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Re: StarLite 12.5-inch Linux tablet

#11

Post by sithadmin »

2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote: post #3

These look fantastic, what's the catch? Who are Star Labs and why should I trust them? The "About Us" Section doesn't tell me who us is.

Star Labs is trustworthy (typing this on a Star Labs StarLike Mk IV right now), but small hardware brand. They're based in the UK.

Re: StarLite 12.5-inch Linux tablet

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Post by hedgehog »

thoughtsimple wrote: post #8
2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote: post #3

These look fantastic, what's the catch? Who are Star Labs and why should I trust them? The "About Us" Section doesn't tell me who us is.

Yeah but a 1 GHz N200 yeesh. Everything else looks great.

I haven't used one myself but the N200 looks pretty ok for a tablet that's supposed to run a long time on battery. Quad core Skylake-ish cores that turbo to 3.7GHz?

Re: StarLite 12.5-inch Linux tablet

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Post by jacknews »

thoughtsimple wrote: post #8
2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote: post #3

These look fantastic, what's the catch? Who are Star Labs and why should I trust them? The "About Us" Section doesn't tell me who us is.

Yeah but a 1 GHz N200 yeesh. Everything else looks great.

If they make a Ryzen 7040 APU version, I'll take it as my daily driver.

Re: StarLite 12.5-inch Linux tablet

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Post by eternityforest »

Why did they have to use a micro HDMI port? Couldn't they have done dual USB-C and made one the DisplayPort output? MicroHDMI is not a very nice connector, it's a lot of pins under mechanical stress from the heavy, rigid HDMI people generally attach to it.

Re: StarLite 12.5-inch Linux tablet

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Post by thoughtsimple »

hedgehog wrote: post #13
thoughtsimple wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah but a 1 GHz N200 yeesh. Everything else looks great.

I haven't used one myself but the N200 looks pretty ok for a tablet that's supposed to run a long time on battery. Quad core Skylake-ish cores that turbo to 3.7GHz?

Notebook check says equivalent to a Core i5-8250U. That is not good in 2023.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-Processor-N200-CPU-Bench...

Re: StarLite 12.5-inch Linux tablet

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Post by 2OEH8eoCRo0 »

thoughtsimple wrote: post #8
2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote: post #3

These look fantastic, what's the catch? Who are Star Labs and why should I trust them? The "About Us" Section doesn't tell me who us is.

Yeah but a 1 GHz N200 yeesh. Everything else looks great.

It's a tablet, not a workstation PC. I have a Surface Go w/ 4GB of memory running Fedora 37 that's plenty fast for what I use it for.

Apparently this also supports hardware accelerated AV1 decoding and h265 encode/decode.

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