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"Upon picking it up, you can feel the metal chassis has a surprising amount of weight to it."
A surprising amount of weight is exactly what I do not want to feel when picking up a micro laptop.
That being said, it's just a little under the weight of the new 12“ surface pro. Pretty much any bag I have could easily fit a 12" laptop but I imagine it would be hard to get Linux to work well with the surface - especially the touch screen. Not to mention a pretty big price difference.
Either way, it's nice to see more options for small laptops! Maybe in a few years someone will start making small phones again.
There's a dedicated Linux kernel for Surface devices. Surfaces are your best bet for installing Linux out of any of the Windows tablets.
Neat. Like the other poster said I also have an old surface 4 I think that could really use a new life.
Thank you for this! My husband has an old surface and it’s getting slow as shit. Didn’t think there was a way to get Linux on it. Cheers!
I ended up falling into using a surface for my travel and it's been surprisingly good. I have surface pro 7+, and it's small enough to use on an airplane seat, has good battery life, a great screen, and can do some limited gaming. With an upgraded drive (1TB for $100) for movies and low end games it's a great little computer. They also run for 200-400 dollars on eBay.
I use a Lenovo nano and haven't looked back to my surface days. Has a touch screen and I really like it. Sounds like used surface market is good, but prices for new ones tend to be quite high. The 12 inch sounds really interesting to me though