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Re: StarFighter 16-Inch

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Post by bwhmather »

puzzlingcaptcha wrote: post #242
bwhmather wrote: post #235

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I'm also the happy owner of a StarLite Mk IV. The perfect travel laptop. Thin, light, fanless, excellent keyboard and touchpad, matt screen, rock solid chassis, good battery life. I'm dreading the day when it finally breaks as there's nothing comparable on the market today. I wish they could do another run. Very different niche from the StarFighter but StarLabs make excellent machines.

Their Horizon model is probably closer to a Mk IV successor than Mk V. I would consider it as an upgrade path.

You are not wrong! That certainly looks like the intention.

Re: StarFighter 16-Inch

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Post by mixmastamyk »

Yizahi wrote: post #381
mixmastamyk wrote: post #305

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What? Hate the Insert key (break my editor button) to the point I often remap it rather that hit by mistake when missing delete. ;-)

How do you copy/paste in the different terminals then?

90% select, middle click paste. 9% shift+ctrl+c ctrl+v, 1% context menu.

I have used the insert hotkeys for that in my career but is negligible. Because it usually breaks editors and things. Makes them work like a hex editor. But I have a hex editor already. Don’t need that mode so easily reachable, perhaps if it required a modifier to reach.

Re: StarFighter 16-Inch

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Post by dang »

juleiie wrote: post #367
dang wrote: post #364

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I believe you that you're not intending to post flamebait, but the way that you're addressing others (e.g. "You Linux freaks", and similar swipes you've been posting elsewhere) is guaranteed to have such effects on the threads, and we have to moderate by effects, not intent. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

I guess it’s pointless to try to introduce some liveliness to this boring corporate site. Fine, I will not bother you anymore.

I understand the feeling - it's true that HN's rules introduce a certain blandness into conversation, at least along some axes. I've been writing about this for years: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....

The reason for this isn't corporateness, though. It's internet group dynamics. You can't have a large open forum like HN without truncating the extremes of language, because if you try to allow the sharp and witty kind of extremes, you end up getting drowned in the blunt and crude kind. The damage done by mean (in both senses!) harshness greatly outweighs anything good under the long tail.

Re: StarFighter 16-Inch

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Post by blazarquasar »

The fact that this somehow has 3 USB-A ports immediately makes it completely irrelevant to me. Why would I ever want a device with multiple legacy ports like that? I have completely gotten rid of any USB-A devices in my daily life many years ago. Makes me wonder why they didn’t include a PS/2 and VGA as well.

HDMI 2.0, USB-A, Wifi-6E, BT 5.3. This is a legacy device.

Re: StarFighter 16-Inch

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Post by teknologist »

blazarquasar wrote: post #394

The fact that this somehow has 3 USB-A ports immediately makes it completely irrelevant to me. Why would I ever want a device with multiple legacy ports like that? I have completely gotten rid of any USB-A devices in my daily life many years ago. Makes me wonder why they didn’t include a PS/2 and VGA as well. HDMI 2.0, USB-A, Wifi-6E, BT 5.3. This is a legacy device.

I’d just plug the ports since things are going wireless and might only need the one usb-c from time to time. Hey StarLabs, perhaps put some nice flush and matching port plugs in the box?

Re: StarFighter 16-Inch

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Post by NuclearPM »

hnav wrote: post #362
chao- wrote: post #182

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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…

Whenever something like this happens the shortage is exacerbated by hoarders and get rich types. For example used Mac Minis are almost certainly going to find another widespread use or be really underpriced in the secondary market.

Is the a third option?

Re: StarFighter 16-Inch

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Post by happymellon »

fishgoesblub wrote: post #314
happymellon wrote: post #79

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> Looks generic, and has the stereotypical abysmal keyboard and trackpad as any laptop made in the past 10+ years. I wasn't aware that generic laptops had moved to haptic touchpads and up-firing speakers over ten years ago...

It is the common buttonless style that is annoying to use compared to something with actual mouse buttons like an older Thinkpad.

That is not haptic feedback touchpads.

> A haptic feedback trackpad is a stationary, non-moving touchpad that uses motors (like Apple's Taptic Engine) to simulate the physical sensation of a click.

Re: StarFighter 16-Inch

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Post by agloe_dreams »

ar-nelson wrote: post #282
agloe_dreams wrote: post #258

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Not just 'way', These prices are downright absurd and anyone who buys one is either giving a donation or an idiot. $2000 for the very cheapest first-gen Core ultra CPU is nuts. You can buy a used, faster XPS 15 OLED 4K for literally $1000 less. Like, Dell sells refurbished the Precision 5560 with the 11850H, 4K OLED, same ram and storage amounts, and a bonus Nvidia dedicated GPU for $560. Did I mention that the ram i…

I thought that sounded good, so I looked it up. I can find Dells with 1920x1080 screens for ~$560, but the 4K ones, even refurbished, are closer to $2,000. But maybe I just wasn't looking in the right place?

Dell's own refurbished site. The precision 5560 is in their hot deals.

Re: StarFighter 16-Inch

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Post by binary132 »

Yizahi wrote: post #220
binary132 wrote: post #60

Every 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?

After a couple of days of monkeying with powershell, cmake, uv, and bootstrapping LLVM I have to say I’m pretty impressed with the overall stability and usability. The only thing that didn’t “just work” so far was building uv from source. Plus it’s wicked fast at compiling and doesn’t get unbearably hot or loud, and it’s insanely light. Haven’t had a chance to try any Vulkan apps or x86 emulation (that I know of) yet. The only other issues were: during the system setup process, I had to reconnect to wifi a couple of times, and before I updated the display driver, it flickered or flashed a few times when it was on night mode.

So far everything I’m doing is ARM native, but if I run into any x86 weirdness I’ll update here. I have noticed one or two things I wanted to install that didn’t have ARM native releases (e.g. wezterm), but most stuff seems to be packaged for arm by now.

Re: StarFighter 16-Inch

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Post by fmajid »

criddell wrote: post #263
wtallis wrote: post #8

Is there something new here? The processor options seem to be two generation old Intel, one generation old Intel, and one generation old AMD.

This might be a dumb question, but for a dedicated Linux computer why would Starlabs choose Intel or AMD over an ARM design? For a Windows computer, x64 makes sense because backwards compatibility is a big deal. But a Linux machine doesn't have the same problem, at least not to the same degree. Couldn't an ARM-based design be used to make a Linux laptop with Apple-like performance per watt?

Tuxedo tried to make an ARM laptop using Qualcomm Snapdragon Elite X but gave up: https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2025/11/26/tuxedo-slams-...
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