I happen to be looking around for a 15 or 16 inch laptop, but these look pretty unsuitable for me. Odd CPU choices, and no apparent way to configure one with 16GB ram in this time of AI-fueled cost crisis. All but the standard are way out of my budget range - especially considering none have a dGPU. Also for idiosyncratic reasons I need a numeric keypad.
There's no shortage of 16 inch laptops with numeric keypads.
First thing I thought when I saw the picture was "Yay, a 16 inch laptop with the keyboard and pad in the middle!"
I've had a very poor experience with the starlabs starlite tablet. Touchscreen and various hardware issues that I received little help with from their customer support.
Hmm, mine works well. Did you update the firmware? Otherwise you should return it. Hopefully not out of warranty.
I have some amount of confidence that the sellers on AliExpress will figure out how to create cheap hardware that makes use out of all of this when it hits the secondary market.
Yes, but also no? For standard desktop CPUs, the memory controller doesn't support the signaling required to communicate with an RDIMM. There's no clever AliExpress adapter that will magically give a component within your CPU capabilities that it simply doesn't have. However, if you have a true workstation, you don't even need some adapter from AliExpress! Xeon 600, Threadripper 7000, Threadripper 9000 all support RD…
If an AI crash left the market with a glut of RDIMMs, we would absolutely see AliExpress sellers removing the individual DRAM packages from used RDIMMs and installing eight out of ten of them onto empty UDIMMs. The overhead costs would be a quick bit of hot air reflow, a 5V PMIC and associated components, and a new module PCB, and the sellers would get to build 10 UDIMMs for every eight RDIMMs they scavenge.
Better software vs better hardware. Freedom and privacy vs luxury handcuffs.
Can't you run linux on a macbook pro?
I would not do that, mostly because Apple is, and always has been, doing what they can to create locked down platforms which are the antithesis of digital autonomy. Being able to run a different operating system is and never will be something they will actively support, and I will only expect that that possibility will go away in the future if they ever feel that it would threaten their amount of control. I will never transact with the company for that reason alone.
They sell to the EU, so they have to follow their regulations. If they don't, the devices can be seized by customs. Tbh there are more issues if they wanted to be compliant with EU regulations. I'm fine that they aren't compliant (they aren't in the EU, after all), but it's something to be aware of when ordering from them.
> They sell to the EU, so they have to follow their regulations. If they don't, the devices can be seized by customs. Seized by customs because they don't offer 2y warranty or include USB charger? No. That's ridiculous. You can import whatever you want.
> No. That's ridiculous. You can import whatever you want.
No, you can't. You can import whatever you are allowed to import, regardless of it's legal status on the original country.
You can't delete your account by self-service, you have to email dang, which is probably non-compliance because it adds friction. It's a grey area, it'd have to be tested in court. I highly doubt anyone will bring a case though. That's like calling the police on your own drug dealer. (IANAL)
> You can't delete your account by self-service, you have to email dang, which is probably non-compliance because it adds friction GDPR has nothing to do with friction I beleve. Our lawyer told me that GDPR also applies to paper records, so there is some real-world friction right there. The important part that there is a right - in whatever good/broken process it is enveloped is irrelevant. Moreover does HN host PII…
Some of GDPR's language around consent for data processing (which, I will note, you only need if you don't have a legitimate and expected purpose for storing and processing it!) has implications for friction: many 'cookie popups' are not compliant because they make not giving consent harder than giving consent.
But deletion requests are not so strong: if you make people really jump through hoops then you might get in some trouble, but the expencted standard is basically at 'sending an email and getting a result within 30 days'.
I’m unable to order this laptop without a charging brick which is now illegal in the EU. Same goes for the standard one year warranty. Should be two at minimum. I had my country configured to Belgium while testing this.
What is illegal about the charging brick?
It's an anti-waste measure: a large number of supplied chargers are essentially thown straight in the bin because people already have a compatible charger.