“Celeron N100” for 700$? That’s absurd, you can get a Raspberry pi tablet for way less and if you want x86 there are cheaper alternatives, maybe they’re just a small team and assemble everything by hand that might explain the high price but 700$ is a little high
I’ve looked, are there any clear winners I might have missed?
Man that’s a hard sell when the starlite is going for $627 https://us.starlabs.systems/pages/starlite
$70 cheaper with better specs is a no brainer
That’s the linux tax again…w a free OS no less 🤦♂️
The StarLight is also Linux
Right, the point they’re making is that the Linux devices are more costly, despite having a free OS, compared to cheap Android tablets, for instance. It’s a markup that Linux-first devices can’t avoid because they just can’t sell as many devices (because Linux is less popular), so they have to go with a higher per-unit price up front to recoup costs and make a profit.
They lack the economies of scale that allow them to be sold for cheaper.
Anyone using this? How is it?
I use it. Its not great. The touchscreen will freeze randomly requiring a reboot. Sometimes just a reboot isn’t enough. U have to unplug it, shut down, then it’ll work. Its good otherwise. I can run 100 minecraft mods just fine
I wouldn’t mind having a linux tablet. But not at $700
$700 for a celeron, it would be a bit nicer if it was at least an i3
12.1" Damn. I would have gotten excited if it was a 6-8" device
So I’m like a week in… but I bought an ‘p8 mini laptop’ off ebay as it found a sale cheaper than aliexpress… but i’m loving it. n100, 12gb ram and 512gb hd. amaa
Necro edit - forgot to mention I got it for 330 pulse shipping
How’s battery life? Thinking of using mostly as e-reader.
so i have’t really gotten to test this hard but seems like 4ish to 6ish hrs of work… It does get a lil warm but I have my plasma settings to change cpu gov on power events and that really helps… i think i could get more if I switched to sway or something. It suspends really well with only loosing a percent or two overnight and hibernating works.
Did you had any troubles with the hardware? Did the touchscreen work out of the box and which OS?
The only things that aren’t working out of box are autorotating the screen and when the device boots up it seems to want to display the login screen on a screen other than the default. A simple closing the lid, waiting for it to sleep and reopening the screen fixes this. Or if you have an external monitor it’ll output there by default. I feel like the latter could easily be fixed as it feels like I need to default it do the correct screen and I suspect it’s picking up the touch screen device as the display… It shows up on the battery settings as a display with a discharging battery for some reason. The auto rotating doesn’t bother me… I prefer having explicit control of the rotation for my needs.
I’m using endeavoros with plasma 6
Way too expensive.
Not bad specs, aside from that CPU. It is terrible. My wii probably has more processing power than that.
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