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Posted by signa11 13 hours ago

StarFighter 16-Inch(us.starlabs.systems)
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aetherspawn 5 hours ago|
Any public reviews?
carlosjobim 4 hours ago||
Would it be possible to hackintosh such a device?
jamespo 4 hours ago||
Has almost everything I want, full size cursor + dedicated home/end/pgup/pgdown but fingerprint sensor would have been nice, although linux support for those is dodgy.
analog8374 13 hours ago||
does anybody do built-in trackballs anymore? I really like those.
seabass-labrax 11 hours ago||
Yes, the MNT Reform and Pocket Reform both have trackballs[1]. They're very different products from the StarFighter laptop though, in that they sacrifice a lot of potential processing power in exchange for a platform which is much more amenable to customization.

[1]: https://shop.mntre.com/

hellcow 11 hours ago|||
The MNT Reform has a trackball option.

https://shop.mntre.com/products/mnt-reform

miek 12 hours ago|||
Ive always wished for a UHK-style trackball in a laptop: https://uhk.io/product/trackball
aidenn0 12 hours ago|||
Do you know what kind of bearings that has?

I must also mention that I'm happy to see the UHK has a ball-retention ring; this used to be normal for trackballs but companies moved away for it for some reason.

analog8374 12 hours ago|||
https://shop.mntre.com/products/mnt-reform
mnkv 12 hours ago||
you mean like the thinkpad trackpoint?
tempest_ 12 hours ago|||
I assume they mean an actual roller ball (like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compaq_Contura )

It is still a crazy question though because if you seen most laptops in the last 15 years there is basically no room for them except on the large workstation thinkpads or large gaming laptops.

blacksmith_tb 12 hours ago|||
Not the OP, but some older laptop designs had a small trackball where modern machines have a touchpad, e.g. the early PowerBooks[1]

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerBook_180

moron4hire 9 hours ago||
I had a Starbook for three years. It was constantly plauged with power issues. As long as I had it plugged in via the barrel connector, everything was fine. But if I tried to charge it over USB-C, it would often fail to boot, lock up, require hard power cycling, and still not come back stable. If I left it completely shut down for a week, the battery would be dead and I couldn't get it back until it had charged (with the barrel connector charger, it would not charge from dead in USB-C) for at least 10 minutes.

Everything else about the computer I loved, but the power issue often meant it was not available when I wanted it. I eventually sold it on eBay (with full disclosure of the issues).

qiine 3 hours ago||
numpad where ?
varispeed 2 hours ago||
Performance yet only 64GB of RAM?

Seems late by several years.

If it had 256GB RAM or even better 512GB, I'd consider.

dainiusse 3 hours ago||
Is it a laptop?
Zababa 7 hours ago||
Sad for the processor, it has a "16-core Intel Ultra 9 285H" which is from what I understand intel 15th gen, while the 16th gen, "Panther Lake", seems to be the one giving battery life around as good as the M1 in the new Dell laptops.
gverrilla 4 hours ago|
I don't like the name.
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