Details and key specifications for Huawei’s upcoming ARM-based laptop have been leaked on social media. It appears the notebook, which currently has the name Qingyun L410, is powered by the 8-core 5G-capable HiSilicon Kirin 990 chipset. It’s not known if the Huawei laptop will be launched outside of China.
  • poVoq
    6•3 years ago

    And running Deepin Linux. That’s pretty cool :)

  • DessalinesOP
    3•3 years ago

    I did some research yesterday, and found only one other ARM laptop that’s coming out soon: Acer Chromebook Spin 513. It says it was supposed to come out last month, but I don’t see any available yet. Its $400 with a 14 hour battery life, would be interesting to try to put linux on there and see how long it lasts.

    • @southerntofu@lemmy.ml
      3•3 years ago

      Did you try the PineBook Pro? It’s ~200$ with a dozen hours battery, is very friendly to libre systems and has a growing community (Pine64).

      • DessalinesOP
        1•3 years ago

        I haven’t tried it yet, just watched some reviews. Unfortunately the battery life is at ~6-8 hours, which isn’t even as good as many x86 processors notebooks.

        • poVoq
          3•3 years ago

          While I haven’t actually measured the battery life on my PineBook Pro, I have used it during a full 8-9 hour office day with still some battery (30%?) left at the end of the day. I think the 6-8h are on the conservative end of the spectrum and very much depend on your actual use pattern.

        • @southerntofu@lemmy.ml
          2•3 years ago

          I heard like @poVoq@lemmy.ml said it’s closer to 10-12h battery (though it depends on your system’s power settings/tweaks). But personally i never had any laptop with more than 3-4h battery so even 6-8h would be pretty good by my standards ;)

  • @someone@lemmy.ml
    2•3 years ago

    Using Deepin is a wise move on Huawei’s part. It’s based in China, pretty and can actually be realistically used in arm unlike Windows.