Lenovo will never get my money after they were caught installing rootkits on their computers. Fuck 'em, I don’t care how cheap they get.
If you’re looking for ethical hardware manufacturers, there are none. Just do a clean install when you get it, like every other computer.
I would assume licensing SteamOS legally prevents them from doing something like that, but who knows.
Framework? Pine?
You think they’re manufacturing their own hardware?
Just as much as mayor OEMs, yes. Even borrowing old licensed designs that are now Open and they still very much improve over them. You can literally find videos of their assembly and design processes.
No TouchPad so I’ll pass, but a non Windows version is a step in the right direction.
No Thanks. This is using the new Z2 Go chip. That is the lowest tier of all the new AMD chips. It’s for some reason built on the old Zen 3 architecture, and is even slower than the vanilla Z1 (non-extreme) from 2 years ago. And it’s using the outdated RDNA2 graphics cores.
This is probably good for best compatibility with SteamOS (close to Steamdeck hardware) but it’s not good compared to today’s most efficient or most powerful chips.
In May, the true experiment will begin when gamers can pick between a $499.99 SteamOS version with 16GB / 512GB, a $599.99 Windows version with 16GB / 1TB
Is there any logical reason for the Windows version to have more storage? What is that about?
To hide the license cost for Windows.
That extra 512GB storage costs ~$30 or so but I doubt average consumer has any idea about that.
Also there’s the thing that Windows alone requires like 100GB space…No it doesn’t? The minimum spec says 64gb of storage, but windows itself takes 20-30gb.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-11-specifications
100GB was a decent approximation then, only 50% over the actual minimum spec
