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StarFighter 16 inch: 4K Coreboot/Ryzen Linux laptop

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Re: StarFighter 16 inch: 4K Coreboot/Ryzen Linux laptop

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Post by fmajid »

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #70
aetherspawn wrote: post #34

Honestly as a business customer I can’t justify buying this unless there is an option to unbrand it. (Actually if you had a unbranding option we could sticker it with our own company logo and that could be pretty cool) Can you imagine the backlash if there’s some IT issue and someone realises that it’s not a Dell or Lenovo (why didn’t you just buy from big 2?), or how embarrassing it might be to go to a profile busin…

> Can you imagine the backlash if there’s some IT issue and someone realises that it’s not a Dell or Lenovo (why didn’t you just buy from big 2?), or how embarrassing it might be to go to a profile business meeting with an obviously random and non-corporate laptop (oh that looks like some random cheap overseas brand, uhh ok, are you sure you can afford us)? So your proposed solution is to... remove all branding? How…

HP sells more laptops than Dell.

Re: StarFighter 16 inch: 4K Coreboot/Ryzen Linux laptop

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Post by bboygravity »

hedora wrote: post #2

This Linux laptop looks too good to be true. It's available with an AMD or Intel processor, there aren't any strange ergonomic decisions (other than the stow-able web-cam). In particular, they centered they trackpad + keyboard, and it looks like it has decent thermals. The battery is rated for 18 hours. You can choose between a medium resolution, high frame rate display (UHD @ 165Hz) or a 4K 60Hz display. The screen…

Just the number 1 most important spec of any large screen laptop: the weight?

Re: StarFighter 16 inch: 4K Coreboot/Ryzen Linux laptop

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Post by commoner »

aetherspawn wrote: post #91
yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That might be an argument for desktops, but we're talking about a laptop.

Any suggestions how you’d sell something like this? Brand delete is all I have.

Unbranded laptops are something I'd also prefer, even though the corporate environment you're describing is very employee-hostile when it comes to technology choice. (Sorry about your situation.)

I know that Schenker sells some of their laptops with their logo on the laptop lid by default and offers a choice to remove the logo for an additional charge. Example (VIA 15 Pro): https://bestware.com/en/schenker-via-15-pro-m22.html

This option is possible because the laptop is a branded version of an ODM laptop (Tongfang PF5NU1G).

Re: StarFighter 16 inch: 4K Coreboot/Ryzen Linux laptop

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Post by LeonM »

teo_zero wrote: post #120

I laughed when I read this > Media keys for playback, volume, brightness, screenshots and more and realized they're the usual function keys doubly purposed. Do you even need to mention it as a feature?

> Do you even need to mention it as a feature?

It wasn't, untill Apple intoduced the Macbook Pro with touchbar. Luckily Apple has finally accepted that people don't want it, and is no longer forcing it upon its customers.

Re: StarFighter 16 inch: 4K Coreboot/Ryzen Linux laptop

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Post by LeonM »

stuckkeys wrote: post #121

lol…why would anyone buy this? It is more overpriced than an apple m2 machine.

> It is more overpriced than an apple m2 machine

Is it?

The 16" M2 starts at €3049 and maxed out it is well over €6000.

The 16" Starfighter starts at €1553 and maxed out it is ~€3500.

Re: StarFighter 16 inch: 4K Coreboot/Ryzen Linux laptop

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Post by commoner »

fmajid wrote: post #130
initself wrote: post #69

Needs a little red nub in the center of the keyboard.

The HP DevOne has one. Shame about that washed-out glossy screen (some say it has a built-in privacy filter).

The HP Dev One follows the HP EliteBook's poor design of pairing the pointing stick with 2 mouse buttons instead of 3. Without the middle mouse button, you can't scroll with the pointing stick and you'll need to use the trackpad (or apply some hack to the 2 available buttons), which makes the pointing stick a less effective tool.

Re: StarFighter 16 inch: 4K Coreboot/Ryzen Linux laptop

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Post by lucb1e »

lhl wrote: post #125
lucb1e wrote: post #53

Does anyone here run any of these OSes on any of the offered screen densities and resolutions? I have questions. - Surely not every old program available from the repositories will work with display scaling, will they? I've never had to use it, maybe Xorg has some hack to scale certain windows at 2x so you don't need support from individual packages. I'm also thinking of things like Burp Suite, which have window-like…

> This laptop ships with either double or quadruple that, making me wonder what the trade-off is like of having this (for me) gimmick. Surely it doesn't double/quadruple the battery drain or halve/quarter the performance compared to a normal screen? From their configuration site: "The 4K display consumes more power, averaging 8W but provides incredible detail and excellent scaling support that allows you to change th…

It's not the screen that I was afraid of so much as the processing power. From my understanding, the main power draw of a screen comes from its light output and area size (they advertise with about double or triple the nits mine has) rather than from how many pixels it has. Regardless, it's a good point that I should not ignore the screen while considering the processing power needed to drive said screen!

Re: StarFighter 16 inch: 4K Coreboot/Ryzen Linux laptop

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Post by regularfry »

vladvasiliu wrote: post #71
lucb1e wrote: post #53

Does anyone here run any of these OSes on any of the offered screen densities and resolutions? I have questions. - Surely not every old program available from the repositories will work with display scaling, will they? I've never had to use it, maybe Xorg has some hack to scale certain windows at 2x so you don't need support from individual packages. I'm also thinking of things like Burp Suite, which have window-like…

- AFAIK, it's usually the toolkits that do the scaling. So, it's indeed possible that very old apps, if they're still using old versions of the toolkits, don't support scaling. They'll appear non-scaled, so "at 100%". - I don't have a 4k display on a laptop so can't comment on battery life. But for "desktop use" (read: non gaming) GPU performance has been fine for a long time. I have an old desktop at work with a 4th…

From experience on Windows, "very old toolkits" includes QT5. It gets very confused if the scaling changes while the screen is closed.

Re: StarFighter 16 inch: 4K Coreboot/Ryzen Linux laptop

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Post by LoveMortuus »

Intel i3-1215U, 16GB RAM, 240GB SSD, 4K display for €1.565,81, which is the cheapest that I could select feels a bit expensive...

A quick look on Geizhals[1], gives many alternatives, with better CPU and storage. The only thing that's probably different is the Linux aspect of the laptop.

[1]https://geizhals.eu/?cat=nb&xf=12_16384~2991_480~6752_Core+i...

But 240GB of storage... That's so little, even my phone (POCO X3 Pro) has 256GB and I paid around 220€ for the entire phone. For a computer 240GB just feels almost unusably small, unless if you're running ChromeOS, but that's something completely different.

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