Pangolin – Mobile AMD laptop with Ryzen CPU and Radeon graphics

Post by unionpivo » Tue, Mar 16, 2021, 11:07 PM UTC

e12e wrote: post #248

trepatudo wrote: post #140

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Exactly what I did. 2 desktops at home and office, sync via dotfiles for OS config, documents via Nextcloud and src via git. A laptop (xps 13 9360) for traveling or working in remote places. Even have a yubikey on each desktop and one for travel. All storing the ssh keys. I don't use the laptop for months, open it and update the packages and dotfiles before going for a travel and that's it. Ready to go.

> sync via dotfiles for OS config, (...) src via git. This is something other than just having your dot files in git, and system config in git via etc keeper?

Post by Shorel » Tue, Mar 16, 2021, 11:12 PM UTC

indymike wrote: post #181

Fergusonb wrote: post #86

I can't speak to the 4700u or the pangolin specifically, but I can offer this perspective on PopOS/AMD: I've been using System76's PopOS with my Asus Zephyrus G14 (4800hs) as a daily driver and I really like it. (freelance/web) The battery life is comparable to Windows (on integrated graphics mode, it has graphics switching available)at 7-10 hours with 70% brightness and balanced power settings using VScode and firef…

Would buy in a heartbeat if it had a 4k display. Hard to go back to 1080p after six years of Retina and 4K displays.

Post by Shorel » Tue, Mar 16, 2021, 11:14 PM UTC

fnord77 wrote: post #218

I don't understand why many of these workstation-class laptops have num. pads. It is so annoying to type with your hands off-center from the screen.

Post by Shorel » Tue, Mar 16, 2021, 11:18 PM UTC

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I don't understand why many workstation-class laptops DONT have a num pads. It is so annoying to have to type long sequences of digits without one.

This debate makes me wonder what it'd be like to have a keyboard layout in which the num pad is in the middle of the keyboard, such that on a qwerty keyboard Q-T, A-G, Z-V are on one side and Y-P, H-L, B-M on another, with the numbers in the middle (separated by a buffer space). I know this sounds crazy, but IME the worst part of keyboard ergonomics on mac laptops is that my hands are much closer together than my sho…

Post by echelon » Tue, Mar 16, 2021, 11:22 PM UTC

coldtea wrote: post #307

p1necone wrote: post #279

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Surely this is just due to a lack of knowledge? If you're never going to use the portability, then you can get a much more powerful desktop than a laptop given the same amount of money. Having a built in UPS is pretty sweet for some use cases though.

> Surely this is just due to a lack of knowledge? If you're never going to use the portability, then you can get a much more powerful desktop than a laptop given the same amount of money. They can also just like having the option of portability, and appreciate the less bulk. Plus, they do use it once in a blue moon outside (at a conference, traveling, etc).