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My current recommendations are a bit lesser known: - Purism https://puri.sm/products/ https://puri.sm/products/ - Vaio https://us.vaio.com/vaio-sx14/ https://

by nfoz 7y ago

My current recommendations are a bit lesser known: - Purism https://puri.sm/products/ https://puri.sm/products/ - Vaio https://us.vaio.com/vaio-sx14/ https://us.vaio.com/vaio-sx14/ - Dell Latitude 7390/7490 (not the "New 7300/7400" which look to be a downgrade, sadly) And if you're in Japan and have money and are really stylish: - Panasonic Let's Note https://panasonic.jp/cns/pc/products/lv8k/ https://panasonic.jp/cns/pc/products/lv8k/

brandonfro 7y ago
“...and are really stylish...” classic! That thing is hideous in my humble opinion
- nfoz 7y ago
  Fair enough. I'm in love, which perhaps blinds me. Their Premium site gives a better gallery: https://ec-club.panasonic.jp/pc/premium/ https://ec-club.panasonic.jp/pc/premium/ And their colour/aesthetic customizations exceed anything I can find in the west: https://ec-club.panasonic.jp/pc/sp/customize_letsnote/ https://ec-club.panasonic.jp/pc/sp/customize_letsnote/ Panasonic has even had partnerships with e.g. Star Wars to have unique laptop-backing options, which is a bit wild for a business-series laptop. But sadly they seem to have discontinued their best-looking and most interesting option: the MX. It was a 12.5" laptop with a rectangular touchpad (that had real buttons). It was a Yoga-style touchscreen (with stylus), and had all the ports you could want (e.g. vga, ethernet, SDcard). Just ~3lbs but also certified as semi-tough, and with good keyboard travel. But then the killer feature: two batteries. One internal, but another one removable (yet still fits flush on the bottom when connected). When you remove that battery, you can charge it from the wall / by USB. That means you can hotswap your batteries and keep charging them -- infinite battery life!! It's just so interesting to me. Such a creative engineering marvel, not even mentioning the circular touchpads they have on their other models. We don't see anything close to this in the west -- instead we are constantly complaining that our laptops keep losing features that we want. Why!?
  - sireat 7y ago
    How do you buy those Panasonics in US/Europe? eBay not showing anything relevant Thank you for showing that different options still exist for laptops. I remember using a Toshiba Libretto, and a weird Japanese Sharp 10-12 inch laptop in late 90s both of which seemed amazingly small. Now the XPS13 and Lenovo P1 that I use are nice but feel so.. normal.
    - nfoz 7y ago
      You'll have to find a third-party cross-border sales shop with a presence in Japan. The company I was using for this before (Dynamism) doesn't do laptops anymore and only does 3d-printing hardware. So you'll have to find another. It sucks, and in such a connected world it's amazing how hard it is to buy some product series from different places. I do miss the Libretto!

by nfoz 7y ago

brandonfro 7y ago

“...and are really stylish...” classic! That thing is hideous in my humble opinion

nfoz 7y ago
Fair enough. I'm in love, which perhaps blinds me. Their Premium site gives a better gallery: https://ec-club.panasonic.jp/pc/premium/ https://ec-club.panasonic.jp/pc/premium/ And their colour/aesthetic customizations exceed anything I can find in the west: https://ec-club.panasonic.jp/pc/sp/customize_letsnote/ https://ec-club.panasonic.jp/pc/sp/customize_letsnote/ Panasonic has even had partnerships with e.g. Star Wars to have unique laptop-backing options, which is a bit wild for a business-series laptop. But sadly they seem to have discontinued their best-looking and most interesting option: the MX. It was a 12.5" laptop with a rectangular touchpad (that had real buttons). It was a Yoga-style touchscreen (with stylus), and had all the ports you could want (e.g. vga, ethernet, SDcard). Just ~3lbs but also certified as semi-tough, and with good keyboard travel. But then the killer feature: two batteries. One internal, but another one removable (yet still fits flush on the bottom when connected). When you remove that battery, you can charge it from the wall / by USB. That means you can hotswap your batteries and keep charging them -- infinite battery life!! It's just so interesting to me. Such a creative engineering marvel, not even mentioning the circular touchpads they have on their other models. We don't see anything close to this in the west -- instead we are constantly complaining that our laptops keep losing features that we want. Why!?
- sireat 7y ago
  How do you buy those Panasonics in US/Europe? eBay not showing anything relevant Thank you for showing that different options still exist for laptops. I remember using a Toshiba Libretto, and a weird Japanese Sharp 10-12 inch laptop in late 90s both of which seemed amazingly small. Now the XPS13 and Lenovo P1 that I use are nice but feel so.. normal.
  - nfoz 7y ago
    You'll have to find a third-party cross-border sales shop with a presence in Japan. The company I was using for this before (Dynamism) doesn't do laptops anymore and only does 3d-printing hardware. So you'll have to find another. It sucks, and in such a connected world it's amazing how hard it is to buy some product series from different places. I do miss the Libretto!