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Reading this on mine right now! The good: - Cheap as anything! - Internal build quality seems decent. - Decent screen for the money. - Keyboard is nice. -
by mrmondo 10y ago
Reading this on mine right now!
The good:
- Cheap as anything!
- Internal build quality seems decent.
- Decent screen for the money.
- Keyboard is nice.
- Touchpad is better than most Dell, HP etc... laptops I've tried, not as nice as a Macbook though.
- Runs well, very snappy, I boot to to my linux (Solus) desktop in about 2.5 seconds on average with full disk encryption (excluding me entering the password).
- Very standard hardware, Intel everything pretty much except the additional nvidia graphics card I'm yet to get working in Linux
The bad:
- The aluminium used compared to say the base model Macbook is crap, the slightest thing and it scratches / gets dirty.
- You cant upgrade the RAM.
- It's heavy, it's a lot thicker than the Macbook.
- Two annoying linux problems (regardless of distro, kernel):
1. Switching between integrated intel graphics to nvidia is a pain in the ass, even with bumblebee it's awful.
2. Wifi, looks like it doesn't work, but it does! Just keep enabling it in network-manager it'll take like 5-10 times and then it'll be on and fine.
Otherwise everything in linux such as sound, nvme, trim, etc... all works perfectly.
- cylinder 10y agoThank you for sharing.
- mrmondo 10y agoOh, no problems, thanks for saying thanks! If you have any questions feel free to ask and when I notice my comments I'll reply.
- Spooks 10y agoI was wondering how the touchpad/keyboard compares to the mac? The reviewer said it works great in comparison to many other Windows touchpads, just wondering how it stacks against mac
- mrmondo 10y agoThe keyboard is the best laptop keyboard I've typed on OTHER than a Macbook Pro / Macbook (I like both the high and low profile keys in different ways) which I think still are the best I've used. The touchpad is SO much better than most windows laptop touchpads, even smooth movement, good 'finger texture' (never thought I'd say that!) in linux current with the new libinput replacing the synaptics driver two finger right click only works on touching the pad with two fingers, not with clicking the pad with two fingers, but I haven't looked at it as it doesn't bother me at all.
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- kleiba 10y ago2. Wifi, looks like it doesn't work, but it does! Just keep enabling it in network-manager it'll take like 5-10 times and then it'll be on and fine. I would say that's a show stopper, especially since the machine does not come with an ethernet port.
- mrmondo 10y agonot really, you just click the button 5 or so times after first boot and it works. usb-c hubs and ethernet adapters are everywhere and all 3 of mine work perfectly. If anything, the annoying as !@#$$ nvidia optimus switching that I still haven't got working on ANY distro is a show stopper / waste.