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New KDE Slimbook launched with Ryzan-4000 series processor

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Re: New KDE Slimbook launched with Ryzan-4000 series processor

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Post by lorenzhs »

baybal2 wrote: post #9
lorenzhs wrote: post #7

Looks rather nice, but "up to 5 hours battery with real use" for the 14" model is pretty awful, to put it mildly. They should get a lot more running time from a 47Wh battery than 5h. Only one USB-C port (apparently without charging support?) is pretty stingy, too. And one of the USB-A ports is only USB 2.0? WTF

I would rather be glad them being so honest. We have a laptops with even smaller batteries from major brands who claim 10+ hours battery life. 13 inch LG Gram used to have a microscopic battery, while they claimed 16 hours of life from it. They got into quagmire with press coverage, and nearly doubled the battery size in the next generation. Half of battery life on a modern laptop is basically battery size/screen siz…

Sure, some manufacturers claim outrageous battery life numbers that noone has ever managed to achieve outside of a lab. But my 2017 X1 Carbon with a 57Wh battery does manage close to 10 hours of actual light-ish use (with Linux). Macbooks' running times are apparently pretty close to what Apple claims, too. But 5 hours advertised running time is just bad, even if it actually manages that much.

Re: New KDE Slimbook launched with Ryzan-4000 series processor

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Post by rcthompson »

lorenzhs wrote: post #11
baybal2 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would rather be glad them being so honest. We have a laptops with even smaller batteries from major brands who claim 10+ hours battery life. 13 inch LG Gram used to have a microscopic battery, while they claimed 16 hours of life from it. They got into quagmire with press coverage, and nearly doubled the battery size in the next generation. Half of battery life on a modern laptop is basically battery size/screen siz…

Sure, some manufacturers claim outrageous battery life numbers that noone has ever managed to achieve outside of a lab. But my 2017 X1 Carbon with a 57Wh battery does manage close to 10 hours of actual light-ish use (with Linux). Macbooks' running times are apparently pretty close to what Apple claims, too. But 5 hours advertised running time is just bad, even if it actually manages that much.

I don't know what I'm doing wrong, but I've never come close to the battery life numbers that Apple claims.

Re: New KDE Slimbook launched with Ryzan-4000 series processor

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Post by notmyfriend »

tomp wrote: post #14

Wow, this laptop is serious business, it's the only less-than-15-inch laptop I could find with 32GB of RAM below 1500 EUR (it's only 1069!). Does anyone have any experience with these ones, any reviews?

A friend had the previous intel version and was very content. For the price at the time he could not find anything like this in Europe.

Re: New KDE Slimbook launched with Ryzan-4000 series processor

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Post by oDahjie0 »

throwaway72220 wrote: post #2

I have never heard of Slimbook and most of what I can find on Google is in Spanish. Are they any good? Do they design the laptops or are they rebranded like System76's Clevo made laptops?

I had a Slimbook 1.

I had some issues with it, most notably the touchpad was not recognized as such but as a regular mouse, so I could not use synaptic to disable the touchpad while I was typing on the keyboard, super annoying. Also, the keyboard layout was weird. If I understand correctly, it's a mac layout (I never had a mac, so it was surprising to me), and a few keys were mislabeled, although not very annoyingly (their shift label and normal label were reversed). But all in all, for a first iteration, it was a good machine.

After that one, I got a librem 13 v3, and it was terrible. Lot of issues, the one year and a half laptop is in the same state a five year old laptop would be, with screws going through the case and the laptop sometimes just powering off by itself (without it being ACPI/heat related). I'm nostalgic of my slimbook.

EDIT: after all of that, I decided from now on to buy refurbished laptops checking on IFixIt which is the most repairable and upgrade it/change battery.

Re: New KDE Slimbook launched with Ryzan-4000 series processor

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Post by rcarmo »

I’ve been looking at Lenovo and Asus/Acer equivalents of this and must say that this crop of Ryzen chips seems to be very decent.

However, most of the interesting models seem to be unavailable outside the US, as most brands dump older hardware revisions as “back to school” gear in Europe.

So this might be an alternative if you want a 48XX now...

Re: New KDE Slimbook launched with Ryzan-4000 series processor

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Post by mariusor »

the_dripper wrote: post #12

This is pretty cool. Are there any other laptops with linux on them out there ?

That's a pretty easy search to do I think.

Slimbook and Tuxedo Computers are selling similar rebranded models in the European market, and Purism and System76 in the US.

From the major brand names, Lenovo is supposed to have preinstalled linux as an option for their T line, and there's Dell also that sells the XPS Developer edition.

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