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Used laptops are such a good deal that you could something high quality in excellent condition for so little that I almost can't justify buying something like this. Like used Dell XPS laptops are ridiculously cheap and they're amazing for the used price. Or really buy any laptop rated highly by Dave2D or other reviewers that's 4 to 5 years old.
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"Bigger screen" (i.e. being bigger on the length/width dimension) is a bad thing in this discussion. Some people want a programming/writing laptop that fits in a handbag, so that they don't have to decide to bring it, but can just leave it in their bag the way many people do with an iPad.
A "programming" laptop should be powerful enough to run code, no?
[0] https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?id=6304&cpu=Intel+N150
[1] https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?id=3064&cpu=Intel+Core+...
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A "programming" laptop should be powerful enough to run code, no?
This laptop is plenty powerful enough. The N150[0] is similar single threaded to some 8th gen i7s which many still use to code (including myself). Should run many claude sessions at once, too. I am not sure I'd want to compile large Rust projects on it, but Node/C++/Java works fine. [0] https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?id=6304&cpu=Intel+N150 [1] https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?id=3064&cpu=Intel+Core+...
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I really liked the 12" MacBook (although my all time favourite computer was the 12" PowerBook G4 - chunky by today's standards but I just loved it). I saw a review of the MacBook Neo where the reviewer was yearning after the 12" - but suggested that Apple has made UI elements so big with such ridiculous spacing and border radius that it would be almost unusable at anything less than 13". Which would not surprise me i…
> it would be almost unusable at anything less than 13" Native resolution on a 13" MacBook Air is already pretty unusable. Out of the box, the 13" MacBook Air (physical screen resolution 2560x1664) is configured with display scaling so that the “looks like” resolution is 1470x956 (i.e., macOS renders everything at 2x1470x956 – 2940x1912 – and then scales it down to match the display for output). If you dial the “look…
In my experience, 13.3" MBA is fine for many applications. A little smaller (eg 12.5") might still be usable. 11" would not work with current MacOS.
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I travel with strict luggage limits (both size and weight) and hike all day. Removing weight absolutely helps.
The differenxe between a "heavy" and "light" laptop is about 250 grams, or the weight of a single apple. If you can hike all day there is no way you are weak enough for this to even register.
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The differenxe between a "heavy" and "light" laptop is about 250 grams, or the weight of a single apple. If you can hike all day there is no way you are weak enough for this to even register.
You most certainly aren't familiar with heavy laptops.
("Am I chopped liver?!" yells the shade of the Osborne 1)
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A 2011 mb air weighs almost half a pound more than this and is slightly larger. Also you are forced to run on 1) MacOS (which I like but is a limitation for many) and 2) since it’s unsupported will have many (especially modern) apps and such not work. I love my 2016 MBpro. Can still render edit and render 4K video, pulls solid work. But it’s limited. Can’t even download Final Cut on it anymore because Apple won’t let…
Apple hasn't provided a security update in years, let alone a proper MacOS release. But just about any modern amd64 Linux distro works out of the box on these machines. With a few small tweaks battery life is decent as well. As for size and dimensions, the difference is under 200 grams, with the MBA being smaller than the 2009-ish era netbooks the blog post compares the Minibook to. Everything is a matter of trade of…
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Confirmed. Minibooks are amazing in cramped locations (for example, airplane seats), or just to always keep in the bag for support. There's nothing in the market like them, which is a shame - I think a slightly better quality Minibook (Chuwis are plain crap) would be a very solid laptop.
I just responded above, but you might want to look at the GPD Pocket 4. It is NOT cheap ($1300 min spec) but it's also quite a bit more powerful and with better ports (full size HDMI and Ethernet). It's not for everyone, but it blows my mind how little competition it has given how useful its been for me over the years.
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The differenxe between a "heavy" and "light" laptop is about 250 grams, or the weight of a single apple. If you can hike all day there is no way you are weak enough for this to even register.
You most certainly aren't familiar with heavy laptops.
Hence I have genuinely never even noticed, cared, or paid attention to how much a laptop weighs.
There's room for great lower end hardware, but I'm not sure if it'll be any good running Windows.