I miss my 12" MacBook. It was underpowered in 2021, but it still let me edit posts on the go. It was significantly lighter than my current 13" MacBook, which was fantastic for backpacking.
_Precisely_ my feelings. I didn’t air them in the review because, well, it’s gone now, but my 12” was the best laptop Apple ever made for most of my usage patterns.
A long time ago, Acer made netbook form factor laptops with intel i7 processors in them. I miss mine. It wasn't that expensive.
This form factor looks great, and for $350, it's extremely reasonably priced. However, I'd be much more tempted if they had a version that was that price with better CPU and DRAM specs.
(I don't care if it's ARM or x86 as long as it runs linux well and has ~ 8 hour battery life, which this apparently does, under Linux, at least.)
Almost. I can do 7 hours on it for sure writing and reviewing stuff in Obsidian (or Zed, but it’s a bit early to get a baseline as I just remembered to install it there a week ago). The rest varies.
It's built on a previous generation intel chip, and linux details are "coming soon" though.
I wonder if they'll produce an AMD variant later. I've had extremely bad luck with my last few Intel laptops. I'd expect some Ryzen SOC to work well in that form factor. For instnace, I have a Ryzen 8845HS plugged into my TV, and it's hard to get it above ~ 11 watts unless I'm running recent games on it (idles at 3-5w; TDP 65W).
