interesting concept but according to the specs, it left off several that would be a deal breaker for me. only 3 megs of ram, only 32 gigs of internal storage, no wireless charging, not water or dust resistant and no nfc. I don't think the 800 buck price tag is worth it.
Can't say the 32GB of internal storage is such a big issue for me - not with a 2TB compatible uSD slot. I've rarely had a Linux laptop with an OS+apps partition that size. More would obviously be nice, but it's adequate, and I'll take upgradable storage over built-in any day.
3GB of RAM though - that's really rough. I generally recommend people stay away from any new computer with less than 8GB of RAM, because you can be pretty certain it will be banging against that performance-killing RAM ceiling as soon as you try to do anything remotely demanding (not to mention, any laptop/PC with only 4GB has probably cut lots of less marketing-obvious corners as well, but that's not directly relevant here.)
The others... they'd certainly be nice to have for those that use them. I'd love to see at least a second USB port (I don't *think* it has one?) Then you could at least plug in your own Qi receiver, etc. without interfering with docking or other uses.
not for me (Score:3, Informative)
interesting concept but according to the specs, it left off several that would be a deal breaker for me. only 3 megs of ram, only 32 gigs of internal storage, no wireless charging, not water or dust resistant and no nfc. I don't think the 800 buck price tag is worth it.
Re:not for me (Score:2)
Can't say the 32GB of internal storage is such a big issue for me - not with a 2TB compatible uSD slot. I've rarely had a Linux laptop with an OS+apps partition that size. More would obviously be nice, but it's adequate, and I'll take upgradable storage over built-in any day.
3GB of RAM though - that's really rough. I generally recommend people stay away from any new computer with less than 8GB of RAM, because you can be pretty certain it will be banging against that performance-killing RAM ceiling as soon as you try to do anything remotely demanding (not to mention, any laptop/PC with only 4GB has probably cut lots of less marketing-obvious corners as well, but that's not directly relevant here.)
The others... they'd certainly be nice to have for those that use them. I'd love to see at least a second USB port (I don't *think* it has one?) Then you could at least plug in your own Qi receiver, etc. without interfering with docking or other uses.