I like to use laptop in the beach. No glare means I can see it even with the sun light reflecting?
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StarFighter 16-Inch
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#132I don't know how anybody can stand not having a numpad.
I never use my numpad. I use the numbers in the top row of the keyboard. I'd be super happy to yank my numpad out of my laptop, move the keyboard a little bit to the right and center align it with the center of the screen. My head would be centered with the middle of the screen too. Unfortunately I had to settle with that keyboard because every other laptop was a worse tradeoff.
I've learned to love numpad when I spent some time working in France. On AZERTY layouts you need to press SHIFT for each regular number.
Re: StarFighter 16-Inch
#133Re: StarFighter 16-Inch
#134I don't know how anybody can stand not having a numpad.
Numpad makes notebooks unnecessarily wide (I don't like widescreen, 4:3 was the best aspect ratio), but classical Thinkpad arrows and home key block layout is what I really miss (and Trackpoint with proper drivers and cursor kinematics as it were in linux circa 2005)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d5/IBM_Thin...
(though I prefer ISO enter, eg. Hungarian, German or Swedish layout)
Re: StarFighter 16-Inch
#135Looks nice ! :) I like the design and name
Not sure who the target market is.. but on the homepage it only lists the CPU's in the era of AI/Models etc I'd put the GPU and VRAM somewhere on mainpage as well.
Even when I view "Tech Specs" still don't see the VRAM ? Just some feedback.
Re: StarFighter 16-Inch
#136The key on the top right corner of the keyboard being the poweroff button instead of the Delete key gets an instant NACK from me.
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#137I’m unable to order this laptop without a charging brick which is now illegal in the EU. Same goes for the standard one year warranty. Should be two at minimum. I had my country configured to Belgium while testing this.
Do they actually have a business presence in the EU?
If not, how would those rules apply to them?
Edit: tbh, the new "user friendly" idea of automatically converting US prices to the local currency of the visitor in spite of the company not having any connection to the visitor's locale always makes me think of drop shippers, not of legitimate businesses.
Especially if i'm in a non USD non EUR country, I am fully aware that there are different currencies in the world, I already have an established process for converting between those currencies and it's likely to be more to my advantage than whatever Stripe offers so please cut it down.
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#138Does it suspend to RAM with echo mem > /sys/power/state and stays there for a couple of weeks on battery? If not, I will keep my Intel Thinkpad T14 G2, The Last of the Mohicans that can.
Most devices still support S3 sleep, it's just disabled by default as s2idle (modern standby) has become the default. You can almost always re-enable S3 sleep if you really want to, but on modern devices it typically only takes a few seconds to resume from S4 (suspend-to-disk) which technically is safer and more reliable. Also you can always use suspend-then-hibernate if you really want fast resume during the day, bu…
Dunno about other manufacturers, but Thinkpads removed S3. Stock BIOS on some T14 G3 had S3 had it, but it was removed by subsequent BIOS updates.
The notebook market is dead for me if the notebook can't sleep on 0.3% battery per hour and if it can't wake up within a second or so.
So far only macbooks and >5 years old Intel notebooks can.
Re: StarFighter 16-Inch
#139A framework competitor! Most of all I love the keyboard. Full size arrow keys as well as home, end and page up/down nearby. I wish framework laptops could come with multiple possible keyboard layouts like the one on the picture.
On the other hand, full size arrow keys make this a non-starter for me. I need to position my fingers over the arrow keys without looking at them, and half-size allows me to do that by touch feeling.
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#140Earlier quoted context omitted.
O'rly? Also when suspended to RAM? Framework AMD versions specifically?
The Intel 13th gen will draw ~1% per hour while suspended to RAM. My findings on it: https://sjg.io/writing/suspend-battery-drain-framework-13-ub...
Thanks for the detailed write-up.
IIRC my Thinkpad T14 G2 has S3 and it draws 0.3% per hour, pretty much in line with what Macbooks draw when sleeping.