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Re: HP Dev One Laptop with Pop_OS

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Post by qzw »

metadat wrote: post #33
messe wrote: post #7

16GB RAM? Is it upgradable or can it be configured higher? If not, why in god's name would you have 16GB RAM as a selling point? FHD at 14"? That's more than usable sure, but I'd prefer at least 2560x1440, preferably 2560x1600; A 16:9 aspect ratio is a pain in the ass. 4 years ago, these specs (if you can even call it that, we've been given almost no information) would have been decent. Now? This just seems desperate…

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To be fair, this HP does seem like a fairly minimal-effort marketing exercise. It claims to be "Built for developers", but it doesn't really have any special developer-oriented features, other than maybe the keyboard and the preloaded Linux distro. Kind of reminds me of some of the early "For Gamerz!!!" products that were actually just tarted-up commodity junk.

Re: HP Dev One Laptop with Pop_OS

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Post by innocenat »

metadat wrote: post #33
messe wrote: post #7

16GB RAM? Is it upgradable or can it be configured higher? If not, why in god's name would you have 16GB RAM as a selling point? FHD at 14"? That's more than usable sure, but I'd prefer at least 2560x1440, preferably 2560x1600; A 16:9 aspect ratio is a pain in the ass. 4 years ago, these specs (if you can even call it that, we've been given almost no information) would have been decent. Now? This just seems desperate…

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This is exactly my impression reading the post on laptops/phones here the past few days.

I now understood why the manufactures doesn't really seems to care for this segment, as everyone seems to have enough dealbreakers that nothing's going to sell well.

Re: HP Dev One Laptop with Pop_OS

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Post by jasoneckert »

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 same with laptop hardware vendors.

Re: HP Dev One Laptop with Pop_OS

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Post by qzw »

2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote: post #31
messe wrote: post #7

16GB RAM? Is it upgradable or can it be configured higher? If not, why in god's name would you have 16GB RAM as a selling point? FHD at 14"? That's more than usable sure, but I'd prefer at least 2560x1440, preferably 2560x1600; A 16:9 aspect ratio is a pain in the ass. 4 years ago, these specs (if you can even call it that, we've been given almost no information) would have been decent. Now? This just seems desperate…

Radeon graphics and 16GB memory for $1,100 sounds like a good deal imo.

It's not clear whether it's also got a dGPU or just the iGPU. Both are Radeon graphics. The vagueness of the description leads me to guess it only has an iGPU.

Re: HP Dev One Laptop with Pop_OS

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Post by cstrahan »

wolverine876 wrote: post #22
itomato wrote: post #11

Offset trackpad is a 100% deal breaker for me, sorry. It could support 64GB and Libreboot and I would pass.

It's centered under the spacebar in the image I see (which is elsewhere).

I don’t get why, but it’s not uncommon for people to prefer the aesthetic of the trackpad being centered on the chassis, while being offset relative to the midpoint between the two home rows of the keyboard. Palm rejection nowadays is pretty decent, but still, I’d much rather not have my right palm constantly in contact with the trackpad.

Re: HP Dev One Laptop with Pop_OS

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

That's interesting; I thought System76 made Pop!_OS specifically to have a distro tuned to their hardware, but assuming this is as official as it looks that implies that they've started going for licensing it out to other vendors

Re: HP Dev One Laptop with Pop_OS

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Post by muti »

throwaway888abc wrote: post #39

Not sure if parody But whoa! trackpoint Here is the hires from landing page https://media.graphassets.com/resize=width:3300,height:2805,... Edit: Legit, © Copyright 2022 HP Development Company, L.P.

As a sibling comment mentioned, no middle button though, which makes it less useful
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