Finally someone made a laptop with PgUp/PgDn/Home/End column, like Toshiba! Thank you!
...just noticed it's 16". Toshiba did the same on 14" laptops.
StarFighter 16-Inch
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#342Looks generic, and has the stereotypical abysmal keyboard and trackpad as any laptop made in the past 10+ years. Put this in a room with a few other laptops and it'd be hard to pick it out from the crowd. The only thing it has going for it are the raw specs, but it's eventually marred by the price for what is a poor typing and trackpad experience.
The hardware is designed in house and is the only trackpad that approaches macbook levels
Yeah starlabs uses a lot of glass trackpads in their products and are known for good builds; certainly this will be better than a thinkpad or something. The common complaints for their laptops are usually battery life (I know the horizon battery life was famously abysmal, roughly 3 hours of use), although I'm not sure how long this battery will last.
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#343lol Up to 18 hrs battery life if you put it in sleep mode maybe. why do people keep lying about battery life?
They lied about the horizon battery life as well, reviewers put it at ~3 hours down from I think an "estimated" 12. Really nice laptops, I might still get one, but this sort of lying irks me.
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Sensible thought. I very much hope there is a glut of one-three year old ram and GPUs on the market in about one year when the AI market "cools" and the ear-marked components return to the market. The banks that lent the AI industry the money are already trying to sell their debt.
Unless you meant buying an entire server (instead of laptop/desktop components), it won't work out the way you are describing. Prices may come down, but the components for the datacenters market aren't fungible with the components for laptop or desktop. You might not know what is being "earmarked" in this case? Yes, the DRAM dies all come from the same wafer supply and fab capacity, and those limits are the cause of…
I wonder if a surplus of these server ram components would lead to consumer hardware designed to make use of them though.
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#345The 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?
Lenovo sells ThinkPad T-series laptops as “Linux-supported.” However, if you happen to buy an AMD version of one of these laptops, you may be surprised by how poorly the Wi‑Fi works. It’s been several years since the T14 Gen4 was released, and yet the Wi‑Fi is still not stable.
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#346Every new $3000 computer I see just makes me glad I bought a Snapdragon X2 laptop.
Hi. Could you please describe your opinion on the compatibility and stability (especially everything wireless) of the system?
I’ll try to remember to leave a comment here once I have a chance to put it through its paces soon. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s a little rough around the edges, but I think that they’ve had some time to iron things out with the first generation and I expect it to be pretty good on Windows based on numerous reviews. I’m mainly wondering how it will do with Gentoo.
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The Intel 13th gen will draw ~1% per hour while suspended to RAM. My findings on it: https://sjg.io/writing/suspend-battery-drain-framework-13-ub...
Thanks for the detailed write-up. IIRC my Thinkpad T14 G2 has S3 and it draws 0.3% per hour, pretty much in line with what Macbooks draw when sleeping.
Another data point: AMD T14 G4 with s2idle draws about 0.4% per hour of sleep.
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#348I think it should have a removable/detachable screen that can still be on hinge if need be as many people won't even travel with it, and will put the screen on a stand - or it could have foldable support legs.
The screen and main unit could be purchased independently too. Another idea would be to have a second screen that can hang down from the first one for when it's on a desk stand.
As someone said elsewhere - no USB-A needed with USB docks via a single USB-C.
Another idea would be to have a hall effect keyboard - they are the best.
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> They are mandated That's nice and ideal, but unenforceable in reality unless the company has a presence in the EU.
Genuinely asking, if someone really wanted to play that game with the EU, could the EU escalate to preventing the import of the products?
Of course they could. The products could be impounded at customs.
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How does gravity make vents at the bottom useful? A normal non-passive laptop uses forced convection with fans, the natural convection should be completely negligible in that case.
Vents in the bottom just make sense, does it have to be explained? The fans aren't going to be running full blast during idle times or when portable for example. Saves power to use gravity. Macs don't have to worry about that since they made a huge efficiency jump with M1. Before that they overheated due to poor thermals.
Your answer don't make sense.
Hot air is lighter. Gravity help hot air go up, not down.