300cd/m is not a nice brightness for any screen
Some years ago people often advocated using 120 cd/m2 for colour calibrated panels, so it could be worse.
StarLite 12.5-inch Linux tablet
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#172And what about the software? I mean software that can be used without mouse and keyboard? Currently the main problem is not the hardware, but we simply don't have usable software. I have been driving a PinePhone for many months (still do), but mostly with programs that I wrote for myself after a lot of frustrations about the available software, because having a keyboard and mouse is mandatory with 99.9% of the availa…
Sometimes I want to buy a PinePhone. Do you mean that one can't send SMS, place phone calls, browse the web, read (not write) emails without a keyboard ? (these four are 99% of my phone usage).
Drew Devault (Sway and Sourcehut guy) wrote this on his experience with Linux phones: https://drewdevault.com/2023/06/16/Mobile-linux-retrospectiv...
tldr: it works and it's great, but it's not reliable in phone/SMS in the way a phone needs to be reliable.
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#173I can't see anything about storage, does this have an SSD and if so how large? Looks very interesting to me, I'm just not ready to give up storage like most of the Chromebook options.
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#174Earlier quoted context omitted.
Fractional scaling works well on Plasma under Wayland if you're using an up to date distribution.
The DE itself, yes. This is true of GNOME as well once the hidden setting is enabled. Unfortunately there's still individual programs which don't behave correctly, which for now means that 1x or 2x displays are still best if a trouble-free, low-tinkering experience is the goal.
The GNOME setting is not hidden anymore, fractional scaling seems to be a first class citizen now.
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#175I really wonder its battery life with this new Intel processor. Both with average usage and also in idle mode.
I had a tablet with Intel Atom CPU on it about 10 years ago, the performance and battery life was good during usage but it would stay only 4-5 days in idle before running out of battery (even if left it with 100% battery). But I can leave my iPad aside and come back to it 2 weeks later and it still holds most of its battery.
Having said that, this tablet really looks nice and if it also turns out to have long battery life, I might give it a try.
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#176I had been monitoring that Intel N200, periodically checking news about low consumption chips: Jan 2023 ; 0.01µ tech ; cache 384 2048 6144 kb ; 6W TDP ; 4 cores and threads Previously used ( https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/search?page=2&q=Intel+n... ) in some "Google Nissa" (could not find further details about what it is), "Micro-Star ADL-N Cubi N MS-B0A9" minicomputer, "Asus MiniPc PN42", "Lenovo IdeaPad 82XB"…
> "Google Nissa" (could not find further details about what it is)
I could finally find some references: according to Ryan Whitwam ( https://hothardware.com/news/premium-chromebook-x-laptops-po... ),
> Chromebook X machines will have to be built on one of four hardware platforms with high-end x86 CPUs: AMD Zen 2+ (Skyrim), AMD Zen 3 (Guybrush), or Intel Core 12th Gen (Brya & Nissa). The Nissa chips are the Intel N-series
so the N100, N200 and i3-N300
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#177I really wonder its battery life with this new Intel processor. Both with average usage and also in idle mode. I had a tablet with Intel Atom CPU on it about 10 years ago, the performance and battery life was good during usage but it would stay only 4-5 days in idle before running out of battery (even if left it with 100% battery). But I can leave my iPad aside and come back to it 2 weeks later and it still holds mos…
I checked reviews for Surface Pro and seems that battery has gotten worse over last couple years. You can expect ~5-6 hours of use. which to me renders the device useless.
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#178Earlier quoted context omitted.
> DisplayPort has..? Consistently good colors. Sometimes even PC monitors won't negotiate properly with the PC and start displaying washed out colors. IIRC this had to be forced on a Raspberry Pi on the PI side. Not all monitors can be adjusted. Consistently no under/overscan. For some reason, the TVs we had in conference rooms figured it would be smart to cut the borders of the image and zoom in, so you get missing…
>Also, HDMI seems to lag DisplayPort capabilities when it comes to higher resolutions and refresh rates. I think that one very much depends on when you chose to look at it. HDMI 2.1 has more bandwidth than DisplayPort 1.4, enough to do 4k@120 which DP1.4 wouldn't be able to do it without dropping color down to 4:2:0. DisplayPort 2.0 devices are starting to come out, but even Nvidia's RTX 4000 series still do not have…
That's a fair point. I admit I was judging by the availability on the PC side (I don't follow the console market).
Although, if I'm not mistaken, my particular PC monitor initially didn't support HDMI 2.0, even though it's a 4k panel. There was a further revision which included it. I have that revision, but support is still somewhat wonky, in that it can't seem to switch on its own from 2.0 to 1.4b.
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#179No SIM card/4g/5g. Why is the state of telecom so bad on linux?
Because carriers and hardware vendors don't want to play ball. Some carriers consider the user's modem as part of their network and want to control it, hardware vendors want to keep their precious firmware blobs and private APIs to themselves.
Linux has all the drivers and infrastructure in place to use cell networks efficiently, carriers and vendors just don't want to be part of that.
Source: my only Internet access at home comes from a LTE router running Debian I built myself.
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#180No one has mentioned the 2880x1920 resolution display. That’s fantastic I’m this price range. $500 laptops are (nearly?) impossible to find with displays above 1080p.
A friend of mine recently (2019 or '20) bought a laptop, new, with a 768p LCD display. It's ridiculous. In 2014 you could get a phone with a 1080p display, and it was 5" so it had a high pixel density too! Why does it feel like consumer electronics are going backwards?