Hi,
I eagerly read the other thread, as it's close to what I'm after.
I'm looking for a smallish (say, 10-11") laptop with very long battery life.
CPU power doesn't matter much. I don't need a lot of disk. 4GB RAM is needed,
8GB would be ideal but not required. x86 or ARM, both are fine; I'll be putting
Debian on it.
Here's the deal. I have a Lenovo Chromebook Duet. It has long battery life. I
can charge it with a cell phone charger (a feature I would VERY much like in a
laptop, because then I could travel with just my Anker and cut down on travel
cords and such).
But, Crostini (the official Google-sanctioned Linux environment for ChromeOS) is
actually running under qemu emulation and is seriously slow on ARM. So slow
that it's not really usable. Plus, I don't want Google on my laptop. I want
Debian, and AFAICT Debian won't run on the Chromebook Duet.
The idea is: thin, light, all-day battery, hopefully fairly cheap.
Options I've seen so far:
- Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 3, it's $250 and has a rated battery life of 11 hours.
- The Acer 1.35" Swift 3, a bit pricy at $580 but had a rated battery life of a
whopping 16 hours. Ubuntu is known to work on it per
https://askubuntu.com/questions/951121/installation-and-compatibility-on-acer-swift-3
with the exception of the microphone. Not great but I can survive.
I'm also open to tablets. Sadly the PineTab has been out of stock for ages.
I've heard negative things about Acers in the other thread.
What do people think?
John