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That’s the same weight as my Surface Pro 9, which is a ton faster and has a bigger battery, fans and a slightly larger screen.
Almost certainly not since the keyboard is $110 add-on. It is not included by default.
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Finally a decent Linux tablet that can actually replace many laptops. Only thing is that it would’ve been great with an i3-N300.
I didn’t see anything in the article, but will it have stylus support?
Y’know what? I may just sell my iPad for this.
FWIW this thing is nowhere near as powerful as a modern iPad. Different universes.
True - but hell all I ever do with mine is watch videos and browse the web anyway…
Waste of an M1 processor honestly
My m1 has rwally crappy Battery life
Would be great for a plane!
I don’t need this, I don’t need this, I so need this… I mean I don’t… fuck!
Well, this month I am already broke…
Always wanted to try a star labs product. What always stops me are the specs. Not enough ram or storage or CPU to justify the price. Even though I know the premium is there because they aren’t just white labeled clevos like every other Linux focused PC company
Have a clevo and it sucks.Battery life is poory And the Fans go off for like no reason
Oh no. Man that sucks. Which one? The lemur pro by system76 was a clevo I had it for a bit and thought it was really good all around. I would have kept it but the specs on a M1 were just ridiculous compared to anything out there. No fans, no dust collection was something I didn’t know I appreciated so much
It’s a tuxedo. The xp15 gen 11 vor clevo PD50. i7 10th gen and a 2070 max q. And a 4k OLED. Battery life is about 50 min : (
I would LOVE an arm machine, but I need a GPU for work.
I got my eyes on the framework 16. I could leave the GPU at home and go for battery life. Or put it in and go into work mode.
WiFi AC is interesting, mostly because AX has a lot of improvements for congestion
They are using older/more affordable chipsets
I’m genuinely intrigued by the potential use cases for this Linux tablet.
In my opinion:
- It’s too large to fit comfortably in a pocket, necessitating some form of bag for transport;
- It’s too large to hold comfortably on the sofa, such as when reading an ebook;
- It seems underpowered for its size;
- The keyboard quality appears subpar for a device of this size (I haven’t tried it, but we all know how these keyboards typically feel);
- It won’t replace a smartphone and therefore won’t take over its casual entertainment tasks;
For casual tech activities, I have a Pinephone with a keyboard. Despite the phone’s lack of power and the keyboard’s quality, its portability and form factor are hard to beat.
It’s too large to hold comfortably on the sofa, such as when reading an ebook;
lol I use a 13.3 inch boox max and the size is beautiful for reading.
I mean you ARE reading Stormlight Archive. If the screen wasn’t that big you’d end up with a repetitive stress injury from flipping all the pages.
It’s the 3 book set on kindle so Goodeads* has it at 3800 pages. Unfortunately it doesn’t give page numbers in book, which I find super annoying. I’ve been working on it since 4th of July weekend, but because most of the time I have to read is audiobooks while doing other stuff, progress takes forever.
The beauty of the large device is less about fiction, though. I also prefer it there, but being able to fit 2 pages of textbooks/programming books that rely on more structured formatting is where it really shines. (I do regret taking the heavy discount on the Max instead of paying for the sidelit Lumi, though. Needing lighting can be annoying at times.)
On topic, it really is perfectly comfortable to hold. While I do rest it in my lap a lot and set it up with a stand on a table occasionally, I have no issue with holding it either. It takes the second hand to turn pages if you hold it one handed but the actual holding it feels fine, and definitely better than a textbook in your lap.
*I want to move but nothing else works for me.
I want to move but nothing else works for me.
Have you tried Storygraph? That’s what I’ve switched to and it can do 99% of the functionality I used on Goodreads just as well, the only thing missing for me is a similar setup for grouping books into multiple custom-ordered lists, but that wasn’t a critical feature for me.
I’ve tried everything, pretty much.
Lists are the main reason everything else is broken. I have a list of 100-something nonfiction and a second list of 50-something books I consider high quality books on intelligence/what makes us tick/what we’ll need for AI that I’m not willing to give up and I’m not willing to manually type one at a time to import somewhere else. I also have 500-something mysteries just to split those out from everything else, but that one’s sloppier and less maintained and I don’t care about it.
Eventually, I probably am going to manually do a lot of cleanup, but I’d rather do it when I’m ready to self host so I can completely structure the data the way I want. None of them really let you treat series as first class citizens either, which is how I’d prefer to organize my fiction. I’d prefer to display my fiction or sub-categories as “Karen Rose’s Romantic Suspense”, “Lee Child’s Jack Reacher”, “Brandon Sanderson’s Stormlight Archive”, “CJ Archer’s Glass and Steele” etc, and do a couple paragraphs on the style of each. I don’t want to do that for all 10-30 books in each series.
I must do something for my noodle arms problem then 😅
I don’t get it. I loved my 8" tablet, but they are extinct. I bought a 10" tablet but it is too big to use for a tablet. Who the hell is buying these 12" tablets.
hmm interesting I might get this
I wish I would have known about this before buying the Pinetab2. I didn’t realize (completely my fault) that the Pinetab2 was a development unit without working wifi, bluetooth, camera and other issues. Once again, my fault, not Pine64’s.
It seems like Star Labs is pivoting away from making superheroes and finally decided to use their technology more responsibly!
This is honestly quite interesting. I might get one, if only to play around with and see what cool stuff I can think of to do with it.
Also, their laptops look pretty sweet - I think it strikes a much better long-term balance between framework’s “plug-and-play” approach (which necessarily leads to a slightly clunkier and less sleek design) and Apple’s “inscrutable slab of electronics” approach.
Star’s approach requires more (dis)assembly time and care, but I think that’s fine. You can open up a Framework way more trivially, but well… how often do you honestly plan on disassembling your laptop? For me, it’s:
- when I get it, to upgrade the RAM and SSD
- if I want to upgrade later, but that typically happens years down the road, and sometimes not ever if it can do what I need it to do without issues
- if something breaks and needs replacement… but that also typically happens years down the road
So, while I appreciate Framework’s approach… I’m honestly not going to crack the thing open more than 3 or 4 times, and hopefully only once or twice, so I am absolutely fine sacrificing super easy maintenance for an overall sleeker and more robust-feeling design.
I agree, I would say a reasonable limit for me would be:
- An hour for any maintenance (replace any component, start to finish)
- About 5-10eur for single use materials.
I think anymore would be enough to deter me from doing it the 1 or 2 times a year I really need it.
The important bit not mentioned here is that FW machines are both user serviceable and user upgradable. No need to eat the cost or create the waste of replacing a perfectly good chassis and display, and then sell off the replaced mainboard on the market.
I once had a laptop that let you upgrade the mobile graphics cards. It was incredible.
Framework’s newer 16” model lets you do that now, I think
Yes
I am of the opinion that if we keep waiting for the “perfect” Linux tablet, it will never exist. The specs of this unit are head and shoulders above any other Linux-dedicated tablet thus far.
I plan on buying one once I see a product review, and if it’s as good as I hope it will be, I hope that Linux users will support it with their wallets so we get more and better devices like this.
Great RAM and SSD, but at the cost of a quad core processor at 1Ghz. Still, I’d consider it a bargain, especially at 500 with the keyboard, as it is right now.
I mean what high processing thing could you do on a tablet?
3D modeling in Blender or maybe CAD of some sort.
Opening up any excel file. Exporting any jpeg file from lightroom. Browsing more than one active tab at once. (the Web bloat is amazing)
