Little laptops : recommendations?
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Hi everyone,
Do you have a favourite lightweight laptop? I used to have a Asus C201 (rip) I'm looking to replace.
I want a cheap and light secondary computer to take on the bus so I can do some word processing, spreadsheets, light coding, e-mails, reading pdfs and maybe a bit in Scribus and the GIMP. I wouldn't be connecting it to the internet except with a USB Ethernet adapter at home. Obviously battery life would be the biggest thing, since I'd be using it a bit like an always-on tablet.
I was looking at a laptop with a Radeon 610M GPU, which is almost certainly not supported by libre drivers, but I don't know if you can use it at all without hardware acceleration. Can you?
I am in love with my libre x200 thinkpad. She's a an IBM style netbook and relatively small - no trackpad.
If you libreboot it, you can swap the wifi card and swap libreboot for canoeboot and run it as an RYF machine.
You can grab one for 300 to 400 dollars pre-librebooted or 200 bucks if you are brave enough to libreboot it yourself.
(US dollars).
With powertop enabled as a service, for general browsing it lasts about 2hrs per battery. The battery is external and can be easily replaced.
As mpv keeps reminding me, vulkan hardware acceleration isnt really a thing. For me thats a sacrifice I am willing to make if it means my machine is completely free software.
Hmm. I would have loved a computer with free firmware like the C201, but I think that ship has sailed. I can't get anything compatible anymore.
> With powertop enabled as a service, for general browsing it lasts about 2hrs per battery. The battery is external and can be easily replaced.
I think I need much more than that. My c201's battery lasted 8 hours when fully powered on. That's about what I need.
