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Re: HP Dev One Laptop with Pop_OS

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Post by dataflow »

gameswithgo wrote: post #90
tristor wrote: post #29

I want to like this, but I feel like 32GB of RAM is minimum if I were buying a new laptop. I’ve been heavily eyeing the Framework but I’d prefer AMD. This had AMD but is limited to 16GB of RAM… lots of unnecessary tradeoffs being made here.

What workload do you do that 16GB isn't enough? Compiling large database backed .NET projects and Rust projects and AAA gaming all fit fine in 16GB

> What workload do you do that 16GB isn't enough?

Run a C++ IDE on a medium-large codebase and you can very quickly run out of RAM.

Re: HP Dev One Laptop with Pop_OS

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Post by 7speter »

black_puppydog wrote: post #66
tristor wrote: post #29

I want to like this, but I feel like 32GB of RAM is minimum if I were buying a new laptop. I’ve been heavily eyeing the Framework but I’d prefer AMD. This had AMD but is limited to 16GB of RAM… lots of unnecessary tradeoffs being made here.

I'd be fine with 16 and 1TB SSB, but only if both are upgradeable...

The ssd isnt too bad assuming theres usb 3/c to plug supplemental storage in, but thats jmo

Re: HP Dev One Laptop with Pop_OS

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Post by 7speter »

gameswithgo wrote: post #90
tristor wrote: post #29

I want to like this, but I feel like 32GB of RAM is minimum if I were buying a new laptop. I’ve been heavily eyeing the Framework but I’d prefer AMD. This had AMD but is limited to 16GB of RAM… lots of unnecessary tradeoffs being made here.

What workload do you do that 16GB isn't enough? Compiling large database backed .NET projects and Rust projects and AAA gaming all fit fine in 16GB

Looking at docs in a browser

Re: HP Dev One Laptop with Pop_OS

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Post by tedunangst »

p1necone wrote: post #78
tedunangst wrote: post #37

What is with those arrow keys? Who wants double wide half height up and down keys? 2 x 0.5 does not equal one full sized key. Am I really to believe that relabeling the win key to super is some sort of engineering feat?

> Am I really to believe that relabeling the win key to super is some sort of engineering feat? I think it's just worth mentioning in the marketing material because laptop keycaps are generally hard/impossible to swap out individually because they're not really standardized. So it's actually significant that it comes with a non windows logo super key out of the box. Just one of the little things that all add up to ma…

Maybe I'm just too cynical, but this seems like something that's so superficial, you'd only call it it out to distract from something else. To convey the feeling of first class support, without actually providing it. If I'd been the product manager, I'd have made the change, then strictly prohibited marketing from mentioning it precisely so that people can notice on their own.

I've run not windows on laptops for years, with custom key bindings for the windows key, and not once has it ever bothered me that the symbol on the super key is some funny squares instead of the word super.

It's a really small point so probably not worth dwelling on, and yet, they chose to make it a focus point of their copy. I get try hard vibes.

Re: HP Dev One Laptop with Pop_OS

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Post by teleforce »

qzw wrote: post #46
2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Radeon graphics and 16GB memory for $1,100 sounds like a good deal imo.

It's not clear whether it's also got a dGPU or just the iGPU. Both are Radeon graphics. The vagueness of the description leads me to guess it only has an iGPU.

GPU aside, the fact it comes with FHD not QHD is a bummer. FHD probably just fine for gaming but for text based works like programming, writing, etc, for me the QHD display is a minimum necessity.

Re: HP Dev One Laptop with Pop_OS

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Post by Shared404 »

jazzythom wrote: post #124

‘bet you wish you could afford a Mac’ edition. Why can’t HP come up with a unique style? I’ll just get a thinkpad for $150. Its mostly just used as a text editor. of course my primary is a mac m1

s/bet\ you\ wish\ you\ could\ afford\ a\ Mac/We finally sell the OS you want/

I hate MacOS. Honestly, I understand the appeal, but can't stand using it. I would literally rather be forced to work in Windows.

If I could buy an M1 with Linux support as great as it's Mac support is, I would in a heartbeat. As it is, I'll be delighted to have options between System76, Framework, Dell, Lenovo, HP.

Re: HP Dev One Laptop with Pop_OS

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Post by [deleted] »

julianlam wrote: post #119
InfamousRece wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can definitely see myself using this machine. 16GB is enough for me as I don’t use electron. 8 core Ryzen is decent too.

I feel like a lot of developers overestimate the hardware specs that they need. My main development machine is a simple Ryzen 3 with 8GB RAM, and I run two electron apps (VS Code and Slack) at all times. A comment in a separate thread here mentioned virtualization. That and gaming would be two legitimate use cases, but for plain-jane development, "8gb ought to be enough for anybody" (har har)

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Re: HP Dev One Laptop with Pop_OS

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Post by rendaw »

7speter wrote: post #120
jackpot51 wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is upgradeable to 64GB.

Am i wrong to think that for 1000 dollars this laptop should come with 32gb of ram? Though its great that one can upgrade the memory.

What does "Linux laptop" mean? Are you basically paying $1000 for high quality drivers for all of the computer components?

More importantly, if companies keep on releasing Linux laptops and only laptops we may really never see the Year of the Linux desktop :(

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