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Chuwi Minibook X

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Re: Chuwi Minibook X

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Post by segphault »

I bought one of these last year, specifically looking for a modern take on the netbook form factor. I run PopOS on mine and absolutely love the machine. It’s a perfect travel laptop and it has largely replaced the iPad mini that I previously used as my travel companion. I sometimes use it with XReal glasses, which is great. I’ve found that a 35 watt phone charger is sufficient to charge it over USB C, so I don’t even need to carry a laptop-class charging brick.

I will note that I also had the screen rotation issue described in the post, but it was easy to solve at the desktop environment level in COSMIC. I didn’t bother dealing with it elsewhere because I honestly don’t mind if the grub menu is sideways.

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Post by fg137 »

What's the problem with 2K 50Hz screen? Too high resolution?

Lots of 15.6" Windows laptops come with 1080p screen which is painful to look at.

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Post by nvme0n1p1 »

fg137 wrote: post #23

What's the problem with 2K 50Hz screen? Too high resolution? Lots of 15.6" Windows laptops come with 1080p screen which is painful to look at.

50Hz is a weird refresh rate. Even back to the 80s (and before?) PCs have been 60Hz at a bare minimum.

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Post by [deleted] »

nvme0n1p1 wrote: post #24
fg137 wrote: post #23

What's the problem with 2K 50Hz screen? Too high resolution? Lots of 15.6" Windows laptops come with 1080p screen which is painful to look at.

50Hz is a weird refresh rate. Even back to the 80s (and before?) PCs have been 60Hz at a bare minimum.

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Post by alterom »

kylec wrote: post #22

Netbooks aren't dead, they're just called Chromebooks now

Chromebooks aren't netbooks.

They're Android tablets with non-removable keyboards.

The idea of a netbook was very small, cheap, portable, full-featured computer that you could use like a normal computer.

All the ports, your desktop OS, and so on.

Chromebooks ain't it, even if they compete in the market segment that made netbooks a success.

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Post by singpolyma3 »

alexrp wrote: post #6

The Minibook X is obviously targeted at the netbook form factor in the traditional sense, i.e. small and cheap. If you're like me and appreciate the netbook/UMPC form factors (for travel purposes in my case) but also need better specs to actually get any work done -- and you're willing to fork out a bit more to get that -- I would recommend looking at GPD's Pocket and MicroPC series. I own both a Pocket 4 and MicroPC…

The specs on this thing look pretty great. Which part do you find insufficient?

Re: Chuwi Minibook X

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Post by cheschire »

nvme0n1p1 wrote: post #24
fg137 wrote: post #23

What's the problem with 2K 50Hz screen? Too high resolution? Lots of 15.6" Windows laptops come with 1080p screen which is painful to look at.

50Hz is a weird refresh rate. Even back to the 80s (and before?) PCs have been 60Hz at a bare minimum.

50Hz is what European power runs at, as opposed to North American 60Hz. This had some correlation to the analog film frame rates being 25 fps in Europe and nearly 30 fps in America, though I’m not entirely sure what the cause was.

Nowadays it’s probably a performance / battery saving “feature” attempt.

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