And way more reasons to rma
this post was submitted on 26 May 2024
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Is it still going to be windows? Most of the battery would probably be used by the bloat present on it.
Is that so? Laptops have reached 10 hours of battery live under light loads years ago.
The battery life is interesting. Everything else, yawn
Wake me up when there's a new, more efficient APU and they stop marketing better displays, more memory and USB while not even having trackpads.
I would rather have a few extra portable powerbanks to offload some weight.
ASUS is on my no buy list after being caught twice scamming on rmas by Gamer's Nexus.
this would be a really coolmk device if it wouldnt default to windows
Would it be possible to use something else, like Bazzite or Nobara? Serious question, idk if it has some sort of mechanism that would prevent this sort of thing.
You would still have paid about $100 for a shitty Widows license, though.
The licenses are more likely $30, not the retail price that we pay. They might have also gotten a deal with Microsoft to make them even cheaper/free to help them compete with the Steam Deck.
Maybe. I'm just going by the price difference in Dell laptops with and without Windows.
Bazzite has Ally images available. ChimeraOS should work as well. I don't have an Ally, so no idea on how well they work.
Pass.