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The Walmart "Motile" Cheap Laptops

Journal by takyon

Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu Linux Performance On A $199 AMD Ryzen Laptop

This $210 AMD Ryzen laptop may well be the best-value business notebook ever

Motile 14" Laptop: Ryzen 3, 1080p, 4GB RAM, 128GB SSD ($199)
Motile 14" Laptop: AMD Ryzen 5, 14" 1080p, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD ($299)

MOTILE 14 Review $299 RYZEN 5 3500U Performance Laptop Amazing Value! (10m40s video)
$299 MOTILE 14" Performance Laptop Emulation Test - RYZEN 5 3500U (11m50s video)
External GPU On A $300 Walmart Laptop! MOTILE 14 + Radeon RX590 (10m52s video) (lol)

These $200-$300 laptops have a stellar reputation compared to the $80 landfill-tier EVOO 10.1 tablet that Walmart is associated with.

The main problems are probably single-channel RAM (although at least it can be upgraded), apparently a crappy Wi-Fi card, no USB-C charging, and they are Zen+. It's possible that Zen 2 "Renoir" could allow 4 or 6 cores in place of what is currently 2 or 4 cores, although it would take a while for prices to drop down to these levels.

Personally, I might take a break from laptops and try building a small form factor PC using Zen 4 (AM5 socket), which may be released in 2021. AM5 should support "mainstream" CPUs with at least 24 cores, possibly 32 cores.

Also, @krishnoid, Lenovo 100e is at $99.

 

Reply to: Re:Toys

    (Score: 2) by Mojibake Tengu on Wednesday February 05 2020, @11:13AM

    by Mojibake Tengu (8598) on Wednesday February 05 2020, @11:13AM (#954183)

    Have 2-3 computers nearby.

    Lol. I have 19 total powered on, running or dormant computers currently in my kitchen&bedroom just now, 6 monitors and 4 displays. I am used to that scale for decades. One good machine per critical task. Some of them racked. Two iPads just for video/music streaming, for not to clutter the desktop. Every bank I ever touch accounts in has its own dedicated banking laptop webterminal.

    What I commented is, the typical web browsing today requires lot of RAM, because of poor software architecture and graphics usage. Those tiny laptops are no good for that. Platforms perfect as routers or industrial, but not for common users.
    More, you cannot compile full desktop Gentoo with KDE or LibreOffice on a 4G RAM machine, I did just that for years and it is demonstrably unsustainable. Those 4G RAM toys are unusable for upcoming C++2.0 compilers too. People who buy those now will suffer soon, badly. Many phones have more RAM these days. I have a pile of such cute small (2-4G) toys too (EEEPC's, Lenovo tablets, old HPs), but keeping them cold or experimental only with slim systems like netbsd, for a reason. Even my last robot construction (N4200) has maxed 8G RAM for just processing herself, and I consider it insufficient for practical purposes.

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