Ask HN: Linux laptop on a budget?

Re:Ask HN: Linux laptop on a budget? by nkkollaw on Friday February 23, 2018 @06:22PM (#16450504)

After spending EUR 1,800 on my 10th and last Apple laptop--the new MacBook Pro which after much frustration I sold for EUR 1,000--I bought the Cube Thinker.

Horrible keyboard, but 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD.

Most importantly AMAZING hidpi/retina touchscreen. Same exact screen as the Surface Book: 3000x2000 (almost 4k), 3:2 so that you get 25% more vertical space.

Ubuntu works great with 4.16 kernel (coming out soon, RC2 works perfectly). Even the touchscreen works.

$500 on GearBest.

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Re:Ask HN: Linux laptop on a budget? by stealthcat on Friday February 23, 2018 @06:59PM (#16450689)

How horrible is horrible

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Re:Ask HN: Linux laptop on a budget? by nkkollaw on Saturday February 24, 2018 @03:18AM (#16452315)

Yes but the MacBook Pro was horribler.

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Re:Ask HN: Linux laptop on a budget? by nkkollaw on Saturday February 24, 2018 @08:05AM (#16453092)

(sorry, I read "horrible is horrible").

I use it daily to program, so it's not unusable. It's definitely its worse feature, though.

Keys feel bad, and sometimes get stuck and don't immediately respond (specially frustrating with the shift key). I've seen some reviews where they literally came off from the heat caused by the CPU.

I got used to it and now I don't even notice it and mine didn't come off, but at the beginning it was very annoying. I just wish they put a better keyboard since the rest of the hardware is so awesome for the price...

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