I am strongly hoping that the 8GB Rpi + NexDock would be a good low cost laptop for web browsing, text editing and terminal.
I've been turned off from investing in a new laptop for a variety of reasons:
- Apple has made questionable hardware design decisions lately. If Louis Rossmann is to be believed, the T2 chip + secureboot situation is just as bad as the old keyboard situation. It sucks having no say over the hardware.
- Apple's newest Catalina OS has been strangely unstable for many (including me) and is headed in a strange direction. It sucks having no say over the software.
- Intel's chip vulnerabilities are too many and too confusing to keep track of. While their chips are advertised as "Quad core @ 2.4Ghz", I wonder what the actual performance is when all the kernel protections are enabled.
- AMD's Ryzen 4000 products look amazing, but (almost?) none of the laptops are 13" with high quality screens.
A "laptop" composed of 8GB Rpi + NexDock would allow me much greater control of the hardware and software.
I've been turned off from investing in a new laptop for a variety of reasons:
- Apple has made questionable hardware design decisions lately. If Louis Rossmann is to be believed, the T2 chip + secureboot situation is just as bad as the old keyboard situation. It sucks having no say over the hardware.
- Apple's newest Catalina OS has been strangely unstable for many (including me) and is headed in a strange direction. It sucks having no say over the software.
- Intel's chip vulnerabilities are too many and too confusing to keep track of. While their chips are advertised as "Quad core @ 2.4Ghz", I wonder what the actual performance is when all the kernel protections are enabled.
- AMD's Ryzen 4000 products look amazing, but (almost?) none of the laptops are 13" with high quality screens.
A "laptop" composed of 8GB Rpi + NexDock would allow me much greater control of the hardware and software.