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@cwebber wonderful! I ordered one in december and can’t wait to get my hands on it!
@cwebber I love the idea of it. My main concers are battery life — I am used to MacBook battery life — and device drivers. How solid are those and do they perform as they are supposed to? I am aware that the machine is intended for tinkering with it but my time is limited and I do need a solid foundation. Would love to hear your perspective.
I have a whole drafted blogpost about this but in the meanwhile I guess I'll spoiler it:
There are really only 2 problems I have anymore with running MNT tech as my daily driver:
- No suspend
- Recent Blender doesn't work
Other than that, it's good, and it's great to be able to open and repair.
AND, there's a really good chance the MNT Quasar module is going to fix both of the above!
@cwebber I'd still read the blog post 😁
@cwebber yeah, the suspend part makes me a bit sad, but not MNT fault! It is great kit.
@andypiper @cwebber It's also something that has a good chance of being solved real soon now, I learned at the 39C3 MNT community dinner last month.
There is actually one more problem: Guix on the rk3588 is still a work in progress situation. There's been work on it, but Guix on aarch64 is still not as nice as x86, but I run Guix Home on top of Debian Stable currently and that's a pretty ok situation!
Also that last one you can hardly blame MNT for. We gotta step up the experience of Guix on non-x86 architectures! (It has been getting better tho!)
@cwebber how's the video performance on it? i still want to be able to watch YouTube lol
@chirpbirb @cwebber I'm using the rk3588 module on my big Reform rather than my Pocket, but since it's the same module: works great! It's more than powerful enough for YouTube