New Linux laptop arrived this week. Starlabs StarBook.
It feels tiny and oh so snappy. Lots of fun! This will be my little hacking/writing machine I can take on vacation - without getting close to work stuff that‘s on my MacBook.
Obviously the display, touchpad, fan noise, webcam, etc. can‘t match a MacBook, but I knew that when ordering.
But is has Linux on it and I enjoy that more in my day to day nowadays than macOS.
First impression was: "oh god, 1080p, I can't do this"
But I think that was mostly because I setup fonts in terminal the wrong way.
Now I think I'm used to it. And the 157ppi of the 14" display with 1080p isn't bad.
And thinking about it: this is probably the best tradeoffs. Framework laptops have higher resolution, which makes things too small on a 14" display, so you need to go to 200% scaling, which makes things too big. Fractional scaling (150%) doesn't work that well on Linux.
Lil hacking machine. It’s lots of fun. Exactly what I wanted.
@mrnugget What is the brand of this Laptop? An Apple?
@mrnugget Hi Thorsten. I am playing around with the idea of buying a StarBook. How was your experience do far? Do you have a AMD or Intel CPU?
@dankski Hey! So far it's pretty good. It's the Intel CPU. Summary here: https://twitter.com/thorstenball/status/1620327015013576707?s=20
@mrnugget Thank you for the feedback!
@dankski Starlabs StarBook