Linux ARM Notebooks

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[–]SoCo 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I'm digging the Pinebook Pro, but then again, I've been eye-balling the Pinephone Pro for awhile too, which is mostly the same machine. I don't know if I could stand such a small screen on a laptop though.

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I mostly use two laptops. One 12'' hp and one 14'' lenovo.

Thes formats are fine to work with, as long as the laptops themselves aren't too "old". I even like FullHD on 12'' .

Makes it natively hard to read my writing or code when i'm working in public places. But it surely is a question of "taste" or "habits".

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The Pinebook Pro is getting closer to something I could seriously use, but honestly I think they are closer to getting Linux to run natively on my ARM-based Apple Silicon Macbook Pro, which is a far more capable piece of hardware, and as much as I hate Apple is quite well engineered

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"We" tried to install Debian on a recent MacBook. Good luck, is all i can say. Since i never heard of this MacBook again. :)

My associate ragesold it.

But fyi: I'm not the "hardware-guy" of our group... i can't play this kind of extra-shallow bullshit-bingo that patiently... you know ?

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We tried to install Debian on a recent MacBook. Good luck, is all i can say. Since i never heard of this MacBook again. :)

Agree its not real option at the moment, just if I had to bet, Id bet someone gets that working before a Linux/ARM laptop with comparable hardware specs to a macbook is offered for sale. Would be happy to be proven wrong tho, bring on the ARM/Linux, I think this is the setup we all want

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I'm still waiting for a "better"-usable RISC-V platform.

Until then i'll just keep on tinkering with "my" fpgas.

Especially this one is a nice chip.

Edit: this RISC-V chip at least looks nice though...

Edit 2 : Holy shit !... I just put money talks on my schedule... I didn't know this ! 700 $ only.. if it ain't out of stock though...