• anlumo@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Why would you want a tablet with an Intel processor? Especially with Linux, which unlike Windows, runs perfectly fine on ARM.

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      Does everything run on ARM? Steam, Wine, stuff like that? Are the power optimisations as good on Linux/ARM as on x86? Not saying they aren’t, but I imagine on a laptop replacement thingy x86 makes sense due to this kind of support.

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          This isn’t necessarily as true as it once was. X86 has made a lot of ground in power efficiency and ARM has made a lot of ground in performance

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            Intel chips are still quite hot and use older process nodes which are less efficient. They have been pushing performance over efficiency recently as well. If this was AMD hardware on N5 I would agree with you, but sadly it isn’t.

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              That’s true in general, but Intel Atom is quite promising IIRC, and efficiency cores + improvements to their fabs should only continue to improve the situation.

              I’m not saying the old logic of “ARM is efficient, x86 is fast” isn’t still true, but it’s becoming less true, and they’re kind of converging to be similar chips but with different starting points (i.e., the needs are becoming more similar, and the differences are becoming lesser).

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          The processors do, that doesn’t mean the desktop Linux distributions are well optimised for it. The available Linux phones have garbage battery life and a bunch of other issues.

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        That’s not really the use case for a tablet. It’d be nice to run Android apps, but I think that’s possible on Linux on ARM.

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          As long as something is running a desktop OS, anything is a use case for it. Maybe that’s exactly the point why it’s x86. It has a 12" inch sceeen after all, so it’s not like it’s just a mini 8" tablet you take to bed to watch vids before sleeping.

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    Someone knows something like this with (possibly color) E-Ink?

    Or maybe an E-Reader where you can go out of the reader application and install Android/Linux apps (e.g. you can “hack” them without much trouble)?

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    $498

    optional keyboard cover for an extra $101.

    Ah, I understand. It’s an attempt to replicate Steve “unwashed” Jobs’ strategy, where buying overpriced stuff makes you BETTER, DIFFERENT and UNIQUE. Am I right?

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      Do you think it is overpriced?

      I was doing the configure your device option but I have no clue if the ”additional language” is the external keyboard. It has to be(?) :)

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        It looks like they’re combining two options into one, like instead of having you choose “optional keyboard Y/N” and then “keyboard language”, you just choose them both at once, like “optional keyboard and if so, what language?”

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        Do you think it is overpriced?

        Given its capabilities and the fact that you can buy used MS notebook/360 device for such a price? Of course.

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      $500 with a keyboard would be acceptable for a device like that. But the retail price is given as $700 plus $100 for the keyboard. That’s pretty steep.

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        I’m all for paying a little more for a machine that puts Linux and FOSS first. Dell and Lenovo are cheaper, sure, but you’re supporting the Windows/closed source ecosystem.