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Misleading title. A 12.5" laptop is pretty normal these days. The One Mix Yoga 2S, the spiritual successor of the Vaio P, the first ever 7" laptop with a proper

by chx 7y ago

Misleading title. A 12.5" laptop is pretty normal these days. The One Mix Yoga 2S, the spiritual successor of the Vaio P, the first ever 7" laptop with a proper CPU (=Intel Core instead of Atom) and proper storage (= SSD instead of eMMC and then NVMe at that). I am in love with that thing.

lucb1e 7y ago
It's still tiny for a laptop, even if a credit card sized laptop based on a rpi would exist. A normal size is 15.6, large is above that and small is below. You can't properly work on a screen smaller than 14" or so, and I'm sure there'll be lots of people that tell me they work on this in the train every day just fine (the logic being "when challenged, we can find many people on HN that are fine squinting at a 7 inch 1366px screen, therefore there is no majority calling this tiny"), but such a laptop's focus is on mobility and travel, not comfortably doing desktop-equivalent work on it. That's why, for a laptop form factor, I'd say it's tiny and not a misleading title.
- robin_reala 7y ago
  You can't properly work on a screen smaller than 14" or so Bit of a blanket statement. I’m totally happy on my 11" Macbook Air still. Full-screen browser on one workspace, full-screen Sublime on another and full-screen terminal on the third. Trivial to cmd-tab between them, and the portability gains massively outweigh any benefits of having all windows open at the same time, especially if I have an external monitor available at most workspaces.
- johnday 7y ago
  > You can't properly work on a screen smaller than 14" or so, and I'm sure there'll be lots of people that tell me [...] I think the 13-inch Macbook Pro is a fairly good counterpoint. There are plenty (millions) of people who use them as their primary computer every day. Personally I tend to have mine plugged into a monitor, but I also do plenty of work on it freestanding.
- geofft 7y ago
  I have a 12" MacBook, and while yes, I use it on the train, I also find myself using it at my desk in preference to the much larger monitor and desktop. I also never use the monitor I have at home.
- chx 7y ago
  > A normal size is 15.6 Citation needed. A normal size is 14" from where I sit, that's what most ThinkPad T series laptops had been for a very very long time. Yes there is a T5x0 series but the T4x0 always had more variants and the Anniversary Edition 25 is also 14". Also, a 14" laptop is small enough to fit across a carry on, a 15" can't do that.

by chx 7y ago

lucb1e 7y ago

It's still tiny for a laptop, even if a credit card sized laptop based on a rpi would exist. A normal size is 15.6, large is above that and small is below. You can't properly work on a screen smaller than 14" or so, and I'm sure there'll be lots of people that tell me they work on this in the train every day just fine (the logic being "when challenged, we can find many people on HN that are fine squinting at a 7 inch 1366px screen, therefore there is no majority calling this tiny"), but such a laptop's focus is on mobility and travel, not comfortably doing desktop-equivalent work on it. That's why, for a laptop form factor, I'd say it's tiny and not a misleading title.

robin_reala 7y ago
You can't properly work on a screen smaller than 14" or so Bit of a blanket statement. I’m totally happy on my 11" Macbook Air still. Full-screen browser on one workspace, full-screen Sublime on another and full-screen terminal on the third. Trivial to cmd-tab between them, and the portability gains massively outweigh any benefits of having all windows open at the same time, especially if I have an external monitor available at most workspaces.
johnday 7y ago
> You can't properly work on a screen smaller than 14" or so, and I'm sure there'll be lots of people that tell me [...] I think the 13-inch Macbook Pro is a fairly good counterpoint. There are plenty (millions) of people who use them as their primary computer every day. Personally I tend to have mine plugged into a monitor, but I also do plenty of work on it freestanding.
geofft 7y ago
I have a 12" MacBook, and while yes, I use it on the train, I also find myself using it at my desk in preference to the much larger monitor and desktop. I also never use the monitor I have at home.
chx 7y ago
> A normal size is 15.6 Citation needed. A normal size is 14" from where I sit, that's what most ThinkPad T series laptops had been for a very very long time. Yes there is a T5x0 series but the T4x0 always had more variants and the Anniversary Edition 25 is also 14". Also, a 14" laptop is small enough to fit across a carry on, a 15" can't do that.