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> I'm looking for an ARM laptop. I'd settle for something with half the horsepower of an m1, running Linux, with fully functional drivers. Does such a thing exi
by KronisLV 3y ago
> I'm looking for an ARM laptop. I'd settle for something with half the horsepower of an m1, running Linux, with fully functional drivers. Does such a thing exist?
It's surprising that there are few actual suggestions here, so I guess we're not quite there yet, at least as far as affordable mainstream options go? Props to Lenovo and others for trying, though.
I recall needing something similar a few years ago and just opting for an x86 netbook with an underpowered Celeron, something like this: https://techbite.eu/en/laptopy/laptop-zin-3-14-1 https://techbite.eu/en/laptopy/laptop-zin-3-14-1 (probably just a rebrand of something else)
The battery life was great and it was dirt cheap, which I'd love to have with ARM and perhaps more RAM.
That particular model was just an example (build quality shows the budget segment and Wi-Fi drivers started working in Linux distros out of the box some time after the release), but I hope we'll have more budget computing options I'm the future! Maybe even RISC-V some day.