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StarFighter 16-Inch
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Re: StarFighter 16-Inch
#222I already like it better than Framework with Framework having a better philosophy of reusability and upgradability. Basically I am undecided. Both are too good.
Re: StarFighter 16-Inch
#223Is it a laptop?
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#224Do these user-configurable laptops come with a mesh bag to hold their parts? Like the camera on the StarFighter, and the modules on a Framework. Would be a cool branding opportunity.
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#225The prices are still way too high. You're better off buying a Dell XPS on sale, I saw one for about 800$ the other day with 32 GB of ram. Dell has committed to actual Linux support. I don't feel like paying a Linux nerd tax when most Windows laptops are fine. Lenovo seems to have the best support here. Otherwise enjoy the adventure in driver land!
I love cheap secondhand Dells and have been running them for decades. But it's absolutely the case that their build quality has been going steadily downhill for a long time, even for their business line laptops.
This laptop looks to be more in line with a MacBook in terms of build quality, with a price to match. It's being sold as a Linux laptop, what makes you think there will be driver issues?
Re: StarFighter 16-Inch
#226Earlier quoted context omitted.
They are free to charge you extra for taking the charger out of the box. So I'd grant them a bit of civil disobedience on this one and just take that nice GaN charger. I can see the EU's take on this, and maybe overall this will even be good. I have some nice Anker chargers and can charge everything we have at home with them (added some USB-C to ligthning/micro-USB thingies here and there), but I'd be a bit annoyed i…
> The laptop is being shipped anyway, so I assume the charger in there may be a "sweet deal" if you need one You do realize you’re paying for the charger, right? And you don’t like the option of not having to purchase the charger?
Sure. And support is paying for people that are buying chargers that are too weak. Or otherwise crappy.
This is a Dutch source, but BTO charged 25 eur to remove the charger [0], because they prefer not to deal with people trying their own wonky chargers. Ok, so this was a 100 W+ laptop, arguably different (BTO only does this with 100 W+ models).
[0]: https://tweakers.net/nieuws/245774/bto-rekent-25-euro-boete-...
Re: StarFighter 16-Inch
#227Very happy to see a 4K display. Framework take note!
that's actually one thing I don't like but they're essentially forcing you to go 4k for the 10khz pwm.
otherwise, why would you want a resolution you're going to scale to 150% or even 200% anyway just to be able to read it anywhere outside?
... and eating into your battery
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#228I made it a rule of mine to only buy my next hardware upgrades from such companies. This is the future that leads to a human race that is knowledge focused. Closing off technology with contrived schematics and patents encourages the masses to stay ignorant.
More of this please.
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#229Does it suspend to RAM with echo mem > /sys/power/state and stays there for a couple of weeks on battery? If not, I will keep my Intel Thinkpad T14 G2, The Last of the Mohicans that can.
Most devices still support S3 sleep, it's just disabled by default as s2idle (modern standby) has become the default. You can almost always re-enable S3 sleep if you really want to, but on modern devices it typically only takes a few seconds to resume from S4 (suspend-to-disk) which technically is safer and more reliable. Also you can always use suspend-then-hibernate if you really want fast resume during the day, bu…
I don't know what "most" in your case means, but pretty much none of the new laptops I've seen have S3 support available in their UEFI. And even if you somehow patch it in, the peripherals don't have drivers anymore that would successfully resume.
Re: StarFighter 16-Inch
#230Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The laptop is being shipped anyway, so I assume the charger in there may be a "sweet deal" if you need one You do realize you’re paying for the charger, right? And you don’t like the option of not having to purchase the charger?
Sure. And support is paying for people that are buying chargers that are too weak. Or otherwise crappy. This is a Dutch source, but BTO charged 25 eur to remove the charger [0], because they prefer not to deal with people trying their own wonky chargers. Ok, so this was a 100 W+ laptop, arguably different (BTO only does this with 100 W+ models). [0]: https://tweakers.net/nieuws/245774/bto-rekent-25-euro-boete-...
BTO does that because their laptops use more than what USB-PD can deliver (240 watt). That is an understandable use case for supplying a power adapter.