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I use mine for work and personal stuff regularly, in preference of a mbp 15 retina. The otherwise amazing screen got cracked the first week, and I've lost the p
by marmaduke 10y ago
I use mine for work and personal stuff regularly, in preference of a mbp 15 retina. The otherwise amazing screen got cracked the first week, and I've lost the pen stylus, but I use it mainly for web & HPC dev, both requiring mainly SSH, MS office, a browser.
It's pretty much great and I can carry it everywhere. It's also silent and cold unless I'm compiling with make -j4.
I found WSL to be impressive engineering feat but ultimately uninstalled it, in preference of Docker.
There's a bit less polish than mac on the basic apps, but I find mac is an uncanny valley toward linux, and I actually prefer either funky Windows cmd.exe or true linux in Docker. I'm also guaranteed that stuff written for Win 95 still works, whereas the opposite seems true for mac (was written for 10.n-1? oh well, wait for the update for 10.n).
Oh btw, Ubuntu runs just fine, but since I use netflix sometimes, without closing all the linux VMs in which work is done, I jsut stick to Windows.
The type cover is also really well done. It's magnetic (like the power plug): you can pull it off and put it back on without looking or thinking much; it just works perfectly every time.
Finally, a great touch is the usb port on the adapter charges my phone in ~15 minutes from empty. It can also power a Rpi.
- ekianjo 10y ago> since I use netflix sometimes, Netflix works on Linux, too.
- marmaduke 10y agoanother nice touch is the Fn key (switches between F keys and vol up / down) is toggle-able like a caps lock. (Instead of having to switch something in the software, like on mac). imo this improves the convenience