Stuff like a pretty case with slots for optical drives, a laptop with a shitton of ports and all-day battery life or anything else that seems to go against the trends.

This thread is for complaining about how you can’t find it and (maybe) finding it thanks to someone else.

  • golli@lemm.ee
    27·
    14 days ago

    A proper non-Apple Macbook Air equivalent. Because imo for the average user that just browses the internet and does some light office work it seems perfect. And with that I mean:

    • fanless
    • good screen preferably 3:2 or 16:10
    • long battery life
    • unlike the air expandable storage and ideally non soldered ram
    • solid build quality
    • priced at maybe 600-800€?
    • doesn’t have to have the greatest performance

    Tbh i thought we would get it with Intels lunar lake processors, but so far no luck.

      • golli@lemm.ee
        3·
        13 days ago

        Haven’t looked at Chromebooks in a while, but you are right that the use case would be similar.

        However I was under the impression that they are mostly competing at a lower price point. So I assume you wouldn’t find nice build quality or screens.

        Beyond that I am not really familiar with how chromeOS stacks up nowadays or if it would be trivial to install Linux/windows on them. Especially if they still have EOL dates after which they aren’t updated with software anymore.

        A quick search tells me that Google seems to work on a laptop and plans to merge (?) android and chromeOS more.

        So overall again products that share some aspects of what the MacBook Air makes attractive, but doesn’t offer the full package.

        • kaamkiya@lemmy.mlEnglish
          4·
          13 days ago

          I have installed Linux on a Chromebook, actually. There’s a really good guide on MrChromeBox.tech

          The screen on my Chromebook was fine, at least by my (admittedly somewhat low) standards.

          And yes, the have EOL dates, which sucks. It’s why I installed Linux on mine.

          I wonder if there is a Linux distro targeted at the average user who just browses the web and needs office software. I guess Mint comes a bit close, but it also has many other apps preinstalled.

      • golli@lemm.ee
        7·
        14 days ago

        Sadly doesn’t seem to be fanless, which imo is a really nice feature when you dont care about high performance. Not sure if in the real world you can find good deals on the snapdragon laptops, but list price is also quite high and that keyboard with touch function keys doesn’t seem great either.

        So in my book that’s still no match for what a macbook air m1/2 offers, which by now are a few years old and can be found for decent prices. They might be aiming at the same market, but aren’t equal.