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Despite being (ostensibly) state-of-the-art technology, I feel similarly about my 2021-vintage MediaTek MT8183-powered Chromebook. Despite costing sub-$300, it
by settrans 5y ago
Despite being (ostensibly) state-of-the-art technology, I feel similarly about my 2021-vintage MediaTek MT8183-powered Chromebook.
Despite costing sub-$300, its CPU is comparably powerful (according to Passmark) to the Vaio VGN-P588E's contemporary desktop CPU, the Intel Q6600. Of course few PCs in 2009 had 4GB of RAM at the time (to say nothing about the GPUs of the time).
The MT8183-based machine offers a surprisingly capable computing experience, allowing for simultaneous Meet presentation + JavaScript-heavy web application usage, all at that retro computing price point.
Where it ceases to feel like my X61, however, is in battery life. Where the X61 only lasts a few hours of heavy usage with a fresh battery, the MT8183 chugs along for 12+ hours.
- jdmoreira 5y agoInteresting. Can you run mainline linux on this machine? I don't want to deal with ChromeOS
- CameronNemo 5y agoMaybe? mt8183 seems to be one of the better supported mainline Linux SoCs. https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/arch/arm64/boot/dts/mediatek https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin... The "Cadmium" distro (Debian based) seems to have some support for a "Duet" device, which I assume is the mt8183 based Lenovo Chromebook Duet. They say that the cameras, hw accelerated video decoding, and external video output do not work. https://github.com/Maccraft123/Cadmium https://github.com/Maccraft123/Cadmium