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I have one of these. It's an awful piece of shit and I love it. I bought it because I was going on holiday and didn't want to take a real laptop both in case it got stolen and to dissuade me from using it. I ended up using it more than I would have a normal laptop because it's so small and easily carried. My current use case is for my commute into the office, it easily fits on the microscopic train tables and doesn't…
Could someone please recommend a small, lightweight 2in1 style x86 laptop? Weight should be way under 1000g/2.2p. Best guess until now was some used Surface model, but those seem to be of really random quality and have overheating issues.
The Surface Book or whatever is going to be your best option because you want the 2-in-1 features. We had a few at my job before I switched to an XPS 13 since I never used it as a tablet and it was a weighty thing to have in my bag. Didn't hate using it like a laptop, though. Unfortunately, the price tag is also going to reflect the branding, so it won't be cheap. Same thing with a Lenovo Yoga or X13. That kind of fu…
I wouldn't even care much about the touchscreen otherwise, although it's a nice way to read articles on a train.
I have one. I got it so I could have something small to slip in a small bag for when my toddler went to a playground. The thing that makes it's unusable is the trackpad. A better trackpad and I would think this was fine and great for the size.
For on-the-go compute I am using a 2017 12-inch Macbook (AS1534). This is a lesser known model, it was simply called "12 inch MacBook" (not air or pro) [0]. It has the aluminium body, it is ridiculously thin (3,5mm thinnest point, 13mm thickest point, feet included), it weighs just 920 gram. It charges via USB-C. It has a very good 2304 × 1440 (16∶10) IPS "retina" screen. I run mine with MacOS/Linux dual boot, I char…
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> I'm too old for that. I was too, and then AI came out, and now Codex just makes my Linux work how I want it, no needing to fiddle with .config/gconf whatever crap. I just tell it to fix my two finger scrolling on my trackpad, and it does it.
AI can't make the Mandalorian or The Last of Us play, though. This may have been fixed or worked around now, but for sure Disney+ and HBO were holdouts that refused to work on a Linux Chrome, Widevine be damned. I mean, sure, I can torrent a copy or whatever. But there's a point at which you just don't want to deal with that nonsense. ChromeOS is Linux , in all the ways I care to measure. But it codes as "not Linux"…
> ChromeOS is Linux, in all the ways I care to measure.
It's Linux the same way Android is technically Linux. You get this little box called Linux, and /proc isn't actually the "real" /proc because it's inside a VM. To each their own, but it's not (GNU) Linux enough for me.
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Absolutely. The 11" MacBook Air was the best laptop Apple ever made.
I yearn for an updated version of the 12” MacBook with modern specs and keyboard. The 13” Air is way too large to be the smallest MacBook ;_;
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The complaints about the keyboard sound more significant than the screen.
Yes, I’d be wary of going anywhere near this for that reason alone. You can’t just say “the keyboard is terrible” but then that you still like it overall -- more detail needed!
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It really pays longevity wise to get max ram!
Sure, but the 11" MBA I bought was max specs at the time it was released and the point is: it didn't last long.
Conversely if you bought an i7 macbook in 2019 it would have felt out of date in just 2-4 years, when everyone has an m1 or better and things are starting to slow down from OS changes that expect apple silicon.
If you bought an m1 just a year later in 2020, i’d guess you’re feeling fine 6 years on.
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I'm surprised you want to run real CAD software on a netbook. I think your use case is pretty unusual. Also drivers are often better on Linux.
>I'm surprised you want to run real CAD software on a netbook. I think your use case is pretty unusual. CAD has been around since before IBM PC came out. It's not necessarily a demanding piece of software. Still, scratch CAD. My favorite VST synths are Windows-based. And I don't want to lug around extra kilograms just to make some noise.
hard to say without actually trying it tho. and depends on the device, of course - mine was like $250 when new, it's a very different beast than a $1,000+ chromebook. the higher-end ones are much closer to normal laptops.