Re: Star Lite Linux laptop

Tiger Taurus wrote:
> Has anyone tried one of these? Any good?
> https://starlabs.systems/pages/lite-mk-iii

The Acer Swift 1 has the Pentium Silver N5000 processor in it,
and can be used as a proxy of what to expect from a computing
perspective.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/09/battle-of-the-350-laptops-acer-swift-1-vs-gateway-ryzen-3-3200u/?comments=1

    "The Swift 1's Pentium Silver N5000 is an entirely different
     beast, designed for maximum electrical and thermal efficiency
     with everything else left to go hang"

    "Specifically, the Swift 1 choked badly on Facebook's new layout.
     Attempting to type a short paragraph about electrical connections
     resulted in text buffering - leaving us to watch as it "typed" itself
     out, character by laborious character, for another couple of minutes.
     To be fair, this is more about Facebook sucking than about the
     Swift 1 - but also to be fair, a lot of people will expect to use
     Facebook on their new laptop."

The question then, is what era did this product come from.

Nobody is kind to hardware any more, which means you
purchase more power than can reasonably be expected,
to get a result. When I look at my own equipment here,
I keep saying to myself "what if that ran at 5GHz instead",
and then I shake my head and say "no, of course it's never enough".
You can't beat them at this game. There's no such thing
as a processor that's "fast enough for the web". It's too easy for
them to add more looping Javascript code.

    Paul