HP Dev One Laptop with Pop_OS

Post by mmstick76 » Sat, May 21, 2022, 12:35 PM UTC

p1necone wrote: post #83

emmelaich wrote: post #61

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For $1000 it looks ok to me!

I guess it's not surprising that a forum full of tech professionals would ignore price when judging things, but the fact that it's fairly cheap absolutely is important for a tonne of people. Not everyone needs enough ram to simultaneously run a bunch of VMs and train a neural network and edit 4k video all at the same time lol. (Although 16gb is almost a non starter for Unreal Engine development, and that does run on…

Post by mmstick76 » Sat, May 21, 2022, 12:36 PM UTC

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Problem is it’s not a metal encased laptop with a partially bitten fruit on the back. If it had been that then people would have been happy to pay $2K for 8GB RAM and sing paeans and wait breathlessly to upgrade to next iteration for $2.9K next year, again with 8GB RAM.

I mean, is it clear that it is upgradable? Because I don’t see any information about that on HP’s site. And it isn’t ridiculous to ask this question as most $1100 laptops don’t have upgradable memory. So if you’re stuck at 16GB, that’s unacceptable for a developer laptop in 2022, I don’t care what logo is on the back. 32GB is the only acceptable starting point.

Post by d3nj4l » Sat, May 21, 2022, 12:43 PM UTC

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Evil Apple, they don't approve of running Linux so... oh wait

Good luck with secure boot or disabling the ME on their closed firmware. It gets extra fun when internal modules or the battery get a firmware update that breaks or degrades Linux support again. I have ported Linux to previous gen macbooks employers insisted I use and it was a mess to maintain. Also consider your warranty void, so good luck with sanely priced repairs given only Apple can get parts or make repairs in…

Post by GekkePrutser » Sat, May 21, 2022, 12:49 PM UTC

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GekkePrutser wrote: post #100

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Yeah it's very hopeful there is a delay built in when pressing that, like Apple does.

Why "built in"? Isn't that just software? E.g. on every Linux laptop I had there was a drop-down menu for "when power button is pressed, do...".

Post by zitterbewegung » Sat, May 21, 2022, 1:21 PM UTC

fatboy93 wrote: post #204

jasoneckert wrote: post #44

I'm not going to critique this laptop as others have done here. Just over $1K for a laptop with an 8 core Ryzen, 16GB DDR4 and a 1TB SSD isn't outrageous. The main takeaways I get from this are that HP is now getting on the Linux developer bandwagon, and that they chose Pop!_OS as their distro due to the success and reputation of System76. And I think these are both good things, and a sign that we'll see more of the…

Yeah, I didn't get the critique either. People are like we listen to music, have a few docker instances running and we use VScode, we need 32 gb Ram or more. Why do you need a text editor/ide which consumes so much ram? Is this the reason that apps have gotten more bloated and slow on older devices? Idk, I'm not a programmer. I think the price is fair enough, and if the ram isn't soldered (one would be and the other…