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> It's thin for a highly modular laptop, but I would not consider it to be thin by current manufacturing trends. Does anyone in the target audience actually ca
by alpaca128 5y ago
> It's thin for a highly modular laptop, but I would not consider it to be thin by current manufacturing trends.
Does anyone in the target audience actually care? I sure don't. My current laptop is ~50% thicker than this and could easily fit twice in my laptop bags. Because in reality it doesn't matter how thin that thing is, you'll still also carry the charger and 5 adapters with you.
Then again I never really understood this constant obsession with the thickness and weight of laptops and smartphones everywhere. In my personal experience better numbers in those two categories usually mean higher price for lower performance and a broken irrepairable device after 2-3 years.
> Does anyone have any idea how the various Linux bistro support is on this device?
Apparently everything works out of the box except the fingerprint sensor.
Laptop hardware support isn't that bad nowadays as long as you avoid the garbage from NVidia. Some distros are able to handle the NVidia Optimus cards though, just a few years ago it meant either no graphics driver or a blank screen after installation.
- akudha 5y agoI don’t understand this obsession with thinness either. I guess this is what happens when Apple’s marketing machine repeatedly touts it. What difference does a few millimeters make? Or even a pound (in weight)? For most people it makes zero difference. I’d take a bigger battery and more ports over thinness any day
- culopatin 5y agoI don’t care about thinness but I do care about weight. Carrying a heavy laptop on my back every day gets old.