Do you ever go into a public space and see everyone with their dell xps, acer swift 3, asus zenbook, msi gaming laptops, and then pull out your cheap af heavy plastic laptop and think to yourself:
"Why aren't I rich?"

I'm surrounded by people with MBPs. 95% of them will never actually use them to their full power (as in they just type notes and stream Netflix shows and that's it).

Makes no fucking sense. Then they complain about being broke and how expensive college is.

Also, name doesn't mean shit. As long as it's got the power to get your job done, that's all that matters.

Yeah, gets the job done...

PINEBOOK - it's a Linux laptop for $100, no joke. It sucks, but it'll get from point A to point B.

@coder67 What kind of Pentium? Desktop Pentium CPU's have gotten much better recently, because HT support. (But no AVX, which means I was almost unable to run The Crew 2, because the video editor requires AVX. But enough crying on the official forums solved the issue, now we can play without the video editor.)

@Stuxnet Back in the days when I was still on Tumblr, I would regularely stumble over posts along the lines of "Hey people, I'm so broke, I can't even afford my mental health meds, so please help me out!" The same people also regularely posted photos with their newest iPhone and there was almost always a MacBook laying around somewhere...

And names indeed don't mean shit. Except HP. If it's a HP laptop, you drop it and run as far away as you can.

I pull out my expensive and heavy af laptop and ask myself why I'm such a performance whore and why I always have to get CPUs that perform as close to desktop CPUs as possible and why I needed a full 1060 in a laptop and think to myself how much lighter my computer could be if I just bit the bullet and stopped buying everything based on performance and shopped form factor. But then I remember that I do 90% of my work on desktops anyway and I want all the performance I can possibly get because desktops have spoiled me and I'd never be happy with some thin and light Ultrabook that has ultra throttling after two minutes of load and can barely clock to 2Ghz.

I still have a good'ol T420. Screen is shite, but with an ssd and 16gigs of ram it rocks and can handle anything I throw at it. Also, dropped it several times on the pavement, dropped a cup of water on the keyboard, and he's still happily chugging away (for an almost 10 years old laptop!!). All of this for less than 400 bucks, what else could you possibly want

@StefanH I got one for free to write a review on, so it might have been cherry picked because I had no complaints considering the price.

It might not have much hardware acceleration, but the thing is awesome in a pinch and the support should just get better and better. I think part of the problem was that the kernel came from a PPA, but the rest was just generic ARM binaries. The Raspberry Pi repos are optimized for the Broadcom chips. I'm hoping that the RK3399 stuff is better, though.