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Finally, a proper screen size instead of toy-level 13 inches. You cannot code on a 13-inch display (unless you have eagle's eyes and use tiny font) and it feels
by codedokode 4y ago
Finally, a proper screen size instead of toy-level 13 inches. You cannot code on a 13-inch display (unless you have eagle's eyes and use tiny font) and it feels like the only use for 13-inch laptop is to watch videos and photos on social network sites while sitting in a cafe which makes it a toy, not a real laptop for work (but Apple seems to be selling such toy laptops successfully).
By the way the current trend is to install wide, but low height screens. What's the use of such screens? For coding, reading articles or working with documents height is more important than width, but manufacturers lower the height and extend the width.
Regarding keyboard layout, it is designed poorly: it has small Up/Down keys (easy to hit the wrong key) and it doesn't have Page Up/Down and End/Home keys which are necessary for coding or working with documents (but it has useless CapsLock key). What is the intended use of the keyboard? To post short messages on social network sites. They seem to copy the layout from toy laptops without much thinking about the target audience. They claim that "Whether you’re a gamer, developer, heavy Linux user, creator, or have other performance-demanding work, the Framework Laptop 16 is built to be customized to your needs.". No, your keyboard doesn't match the needs of those audiences (except for gamers and vi users who can program even on a calculator).
Also, many non-Latin based languages have more that 26 letters, but the keyboard doesn't offer additional keys for those letters, and two additional keys to switch to Latin and non-Latin layout. Nobody seems to care about this. Not Apple, not Framework, nor ordinary laptop vendors do not want to adapt keyboards to non-Latin languages and think that 26 keys should be enough for everyone.
- hkt 4y ago> You cannot code on a 13-inch display When I was young and poor, I used to code on an Asus EeePC with a 9" screen and half sized keyboard. It wasn't ideal but actually, it was fine.
- echelon 4y agoI put Linux on a Sony Vaio P and did homework and Python coding on it.
- afavour 4y ago> You cannot code on a 13-inch display That’s news to me, I’ve been doing it for years.
- black3r 4y agoIf you're actually coding without external screen and keyboard then your complaints may be valid. But lots of people only buy laptops so that they can transport their work between home and office, both equipped with external screens and keyboards without having to set up 2 computers and deal with data & config synchronization... I only look at my laptop's display and use its keyboard for coding under extraordinary circumstances when I need to do some work from somewhere else (meeting room, conference, visiting a client, on a train) and most of those times I just need to quickly fix or review something, so basically any display and keyboard will do....
- miloignis 4y agoPart of the point is that they're making a laptop where you can design entirely new keyboards and other input modules to replace what currently exists, so you could get your dream keyboard layout.