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0 pointswalthamstow1y ago0 comments

I still think about my friend's netbook he had in secondary school in about 2006

Went down a rabbit hole recently looking at some Chinese ones by Chuwi, nearly pulled the trigger too

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I bought one of their first portable systems, the Chuwi Lapbopk 12.3.

Amazing system. A really nice IPS 2736 x 1824 display was the star of the show, straight off one of the Microsoft Surface laptops of the day. Pretty whatever CPU, 6gb ram, and tiny 64GB eMMC storage (expandable with m2242 sata), but it ran Debian quite well & had very solid battery life. Very solid robust metal case.

Price felt amazing. $400 in 2017 for a top tier display.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Chuwi-LapBook-12-3-Celeron-2K-...

mattpavelle1y ago

I have the Chuwi Minibook X. I bought it because it fits on an airplane tray table and I can do real work on it (since it runs Windows 11). I flew a lot last fall and my iPad simply didn't work with Github and Notion - mobile Safari just didn't cut it (multitasking killed everything due to page reloads on iOS).

Running Firefox on the Minibook X works ... it's not great, but it works.

That said, I would pay top dollar for an 11" MacBook Air for sure.

walthamstowOP1y ago

Thanks for this. I would like to run Linux on it but it seems there are quite a few workarounds needed.

It is frankly disgraceful that Apple have hobbled their beautiful iPad hardware in this way. I have a 13inch 2020 M1 Air but it's just slightly too big for travel.

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