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Which one did you pick?
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How’s the build quality? Is it all aluminium, or just parts of it? Is the touchpad glass/haptic, or regular plastic kind?
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Why are there no links here???
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American CPU, made in Taiwan, assembled in China, and somehow European tech?
Let me know when it’s a RISC-V laptop made at STMicroelectronics with memory made at GlobalFoundries in Dresden!
The post clearly says European brands.
There is no European-made x86 CPU available.yet
It will take at least 10 years to establish a manufacturer in Europe. What are you supposed to do if you need a computer now?
(mind, you should always buy secend-hand)
Coma. Nature’s time travel device.
Sadly GloFo has its headquarters in New York (state) and is owned by a UAE investor. So would you really call that European then?
Besides that it doesn’t seem to produce or be capable of producing DDR5 and focuses on logic instead.
Nothing is perfect.
Very good list of recommendments, also my choices!
(To be fair, there are more good ones in that thread, but I’m not complaining).
edit: also, there’s Novacustom which is Dutch and lets you customise a lot of shit.
Actually had a terrible experience with star labs, not recommended
What happened?
Your link didn’t work for me. I had to wait several seconds for a redirect that then said “there’s nothing here.”
Weird, for me it says it’s a blahaj zone link and works
this one uses a feddit uk link - does it work?
Yes, thanks, that one works.
I genuinely thought that this was a meme about stereotypes around how different countries name products for a second.
I dont get it tbh
Well, “european”. But have to start somewhere.
Are they not?
The brands are, yes.
Parts are not. Didn’t look more to see if assembled in the EU or just designed in
I always like to throw in MNT. Haven’t had any experience with it though.
Which of them laptops have a track point and three mouse buttons so it can be actually used on the LAP?
I’d love that, but I’d also happily accept two mouse buttons and a normal touchpad over one giant buttonless panel.
I had that on my work ThinkPad. Never used them, tbh. Much easier to just tap and hold if I need to move something.
Man, I really miss when we had home computers to rival the Americans, like the ZX81.
The biggest down side of my inifintity book is that my right shift key is a painful stretch. Because they use full sized arrow keys and the up takes up the useful half of the right shift.
So half the time i hit up instead of shift and start typing my sentence on the wrong line. Its fucking infuriating.
God knows why they made that choice but next laptop i will be sure to watch out for that
I have a star labs Byte. It’s an intel n355 that sits under the tv to play emulated games it runs time crisis pretty well :) and it runs jelly fin/sonar etc to transcode stuff to Apple TV. The other nice thing is the bios is open source coreboot. I’m currently trying to silence the fan which at least is possible because of the open source bios
Does it run Paradox games too?
I have a feeling it would struggle with Stellaris. It struggles with Halo 1 two player fyi, I think it’s more a CPU issue than a GPU issue
Hmm, interesting. I was considering to switch over from a Macbook Pro (13 inch, 2017 model), to eg. a Starlabs Starbook (or Starfighter), but wasn’t sure considering the Paradox games. The Macbook runs them fine with 8 GB, except for late-game Stellaris & Imperator.
Fedora is an American distribution.
That slimbook afaik also comes with non-Fedora options. Fedora is developed by the community, so I wouldn’t worry too much, but, in case;
tl:dr; if you care about it being beginner friendly, go for Linux Mint. if european & privacy is important, OpenSUSE Tumbleweed.
i’d also go for the GNOME one, that’s more beginner friendly à la “less is more”. KDE Plasma is more customisable.
It doesn’t matter for open source.
, we said about Android and Google.
Yes, it’s backed by Redhat/IBM but it’s a community project. If things goes sideways it’ll be forked and continued as if nothing happened. Using any Linux distribution, you’re using tonnes of US software. They are still absolutely free and open, this is not comparable to Android that proprietary parts and locked in hardware.
Looks like they actually have their own distro https://slimbook.com/en/slimbook-os
Anyone knows how’s StarBook’s support and general quality? The Horizon looks pretty damn good, but is pricy, compared to Tuxedo’s Aura 14, and Tuxedo has a super cool support app built-in to their Linux distro.
I also like:
Both suppliy computers with Coreboot firmware.
