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Now that the two big Thinkpad pointer stick patents have expired I wonder why more laptop makers aren't incorporating them?
Despite the niche love for them on a personal level corporate fleet buyers would still buy DTSN screens if they were $5 cheaper per unit than the regular ones because they are that damn fickle. That is to say their priorities are different.
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Huh, you're right; there's no 7x4xU. But a 15.6" laptop should have an HS processor anyway. System76 is cheaping out by using a 6800U.
Honestly, I disagree. The 6800u has a base TDP of 15 watts - the 6800HS has a base TDP of 35w. The tradeoff in thermals/battery life is not worth the marginal performance increase, at least in my opinion.
Now that the two big Thinkpad pointer stick patents have expired I wonder why more laptop makers aren't incorporating them?
Not gonna lie, very underwhelming compared to what's coming out from other manufacturers... Even a budget brand like Acer is releasing Ryzen 7000 chipsets and pairing it with higher resolution OLED screens, probably will be cheaper as well... https://www.acer.com/ca-en/laptops/swift/swift-go-14-amd
System76 is a brand for ideologues. They ship laptops with FOSS UEFI. That’s their gimmick.
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There's hope that a 4k screen option might exist, but anything between 1080p and 4k will not look good on Linux at this size. Without fractional scaling or funny supersampling tricks, Linux only really looks good at 100% and 200% scaling. Maybe in time that will change, but that's just how Linux is for now.
Fractional scaling is a 99% solved problem at least on KDE, even with Wayland it seems to work fine for me. Just a few apps are blurry which I don't use.
Ooh, it's actually starting to look rather nice, unless these are deceptively flattering angles. Which Clevo is this?
If you believe getting a laptop crom System76 and from Clevo will get you the same laptop, you're quite mistaken.
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System76 is a brand for ideologues. They ship laptops with FOSS UEFI. That’s their gimmick.
I mean, I like Linux and am a bit of an ideologue... I want System76 to succeed and want to buy a laptop from them but I also like using nice hardware.