HP Dev One - A Great, Well Engineered AMD Ryzen Linux Laptop

[zexelon]

Soooo frustrating to see such a nice device with for once even the mouse buttons at the top edge of the touchpad, and even with a trackpoint/pointing stick, but then with only two instead of three mouse buttons.

It is beyond me how product designer in their right mind could think that omitting the middle mouse button might be a sensible decision for a Laptop that is geared towards power users, especially Linux users. Would these people also try selling single chopsticks or car tires in packs of three?

Honestly if you are trying to do this sort of advanced level mouse work on a track pad... your doing it wrong... get a real mouse! Productivity on a track pad is always terrible!

[zexelon]

16 Gb of memory is not to bad, sure it may be a bit limited these days but if you need tons of memory your still best to go desktop!

[Luke_Wolf]

16 Gb of memory is not to bad, sure it may be a bit limited these days but if you need tons of memory your still best to go desktop!

Actual Dev laptops like the Thinkpad P15 can have up to 128GB of RAM and are intentionally heavy bricks of machines that are desktop replacements, usually combined with some sort of docking station. Though something in the vein of a normal T series is fine too. It's just utterly laughable when Dell and HP are trying to claim ultrabooks as dev class hardware.

[cbxbiker61]

In 2022 1080p should only exist on the bottom of the barrel entry level notebooks. Let me tell you my 2560x1600 16:10 on my Lenovo is a godsend.
I just bought a 12" 2160x1440 monitor for a server and even with the small screen it is quite usable.

[hardfalcon]

Can't you press both buttons to emulate the third? And many touchpads have also a gesture for the middle click.

Not as comfortable as a dedicated button, especially when using the pointing stick for scrolling. If they need to cut costs to hit a certain price point on a $1000 laptop, they should take my free advice and remove whoever made the decision of remove that middle mouse button.

Honestly if you are trying to do this sort of advanced level mouse work on a track pad... your doing it wrong... get a real mouse! Productivity on a track pad is always terrible!

Lol no. External mice don't work when I'm lying in bed, sitting on the toilet or travelling by train or metro. And yes, I am actually using my laptop for productive stuff in *all* of these situations. Also, I tend to roam through my home with the laptop in one hand when I switch rooms, so I can't have that useless clutter dangling from the USB port (or even worse: block my second hand until the battery runs flat). If it was acceptable to me to compromise on productivity, I'd have chosen an iPad instead of a laptop.

[tunnelblick]

The battery is too small and one thing that is missing is whether battery conservation works on this machine. Can I set charging limits on Linux?
I would also like to see laptops being tested also uploaded on linux-hardware.org so we can take a deeper look on there laptop, I don't really care for all these benchmarks.

[cen1]

Michael, can you try to hook up triple external monitors to this? Does it work?

[Ladis]

I urgently need a notebook and this one mostly fits what I need... but apparently it only ships to the US, so it's pretty useless.

Fortunately Apple sells their notebooks everywhere.

[arun54321]

Why does it have left and right track pad buttons. Does not look nice.

[DanL]

I'd rather add the RAM myself. Laptop vendors tend to overcharge for upgrades to RAM.