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I see this is your first comment. You're getting off to a great start, because I can't tell you how awesomely helpful that link is. Back in December I went on a
by benjamincburns 13y ago
I see this is your first comment. You're getting off to a great start, because I can't tell you how awesomely helpful that link is. Back in December I went on a quest to find the perfect laptop. I often do embedded stuff that takes me outside. That, and sometimes I just look outside and say "wait, why am I in here again? Park!"
I wanted something with good Linux support that could run a VM or two, have a long battery life, and be readable outdoors. I spent an embarrassing number of hours looking. In the end it came down to the Samsung Series 9 or the 13" rMBP. The rMBP despite its glossiness is mostly readable outdoors on full brightness, and I liked its ergonomics better.
Do you by any chance work for system76? If not, do you at least own one of their laptops? Can you speak to build quality, battery life, sunlight readability, or keyboard ergonomics?
- etioyuahgdhjdkg 13y agoI ordered one of these things the other day, after quite a bit of research. Basically, the "catch" with these laptops is an abysmal 3-4 hour battery life. If you're never more than 4 hours away from an outlet, it's perfect for development.
- benjamincburns 13y agoHave you verified that yet? What setup did you choose?
- etioyuahgdhjdkg 13y agoI got the galago pro ultrabook. Had a back-and-forth with a guy on their engineering team and he said approximately "a solid 3 hours, generally 3-3.5 hours. But dealing with pre-release machines, not the ones that will be actually shipped out. Hopefully this will be higher with the actual ones." The one I ordered has a 240 GB intel SSD and 16 GB of RAM, but I don't think that really matters. It's the power-hungry Iris and the really nice display that kill it.