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

[jacob]

Well, they're a direct competition to this one. My brother has one with M1 and it sets the bar really high.

One of them runs a FOSS OS, the other runs the world's most proprietary OS. How are they in any sort of competition?

[kylew77]

First so glad Michael that HP/System76 acknowledged the authority you are on Linux/*BSD/alt operating systems and sent you a review sample!
Second, it has a track point like a ThinkPad! OMG that is awesome!
Third, I wonder how good this laptop would work with a *BSD? Would be nice to note if it works with FreeBSD or OpenBSD, no performance reports needed just if it boots and can suspend and resume properly and accelerated graphics work.

[skeevy420]

Please. Any laptop is a "dev laptop" if it's used for development. Everything else is just marketing BS and you're falling for it. A "dev laptop" merely needs to meet the needs of the person using it, it can have 4 GB of RAM and still be workable if that's all the person needs.

Exactly. It offers 8c/16t with 16GB of RAM and one of the best iGPUs around. While that's more like 4GB Vram and 12GB RAM once you factor in the iGPU, that's still a pretty decent machine for all intents and purposes. And it can be upgraded to 64GB of memory. That should be plenty capable for most anyone doing work on the go. Especially since any dev worth their salt will SSH into their workstation that they use to do their intensive tasks.

I'm loling at a lot of these posts going, "It's not 64c128t with 256GB of ram with 2 RTX 4080s so it's not a capable dev laptop for my needs." Like, WTF are you doing that you need all that? Are you incapable of using SSH or some other remote option?

And I can understand the 1080p complaint....but I have a 4K monitor and, quite frankly, in my experiences over 1080p on Linux can be annoying due to how scaling just isn't as up to par as it is on Windows. While 2K might be a nice compromise if you don't need scaling with it with anything you do, 1080p just works without needing any scaling so that makes sense for a Linux targeted device.

[stormcrow]

Because it's part of what makes this not a dev laptop despite being marketed as such, of course neither is the Dell offering. It's a crappy ultrabook for hipsters in HR who aren't doing any real work.

Please. Any laptop is a "dev laptop" if it's used for development. Everything else is just marketing BS and you're falling for it. A "dev laptop" merely needs to meet the needs of the person using it, it can have 4 GB of RAM and still be workable if that's all the person needs.

[castlefox]

I am rather conflicted on weather I should keep my frame.work laptop pre-order with a 12th gen intel chip or I should get this HP laptop instead. I am not developer. I also selected 16GB on my fame.work build, (they are basically the same exact prices with taxes (shipping is free on both). I really wanted to support frame.work for its repair-ability / ability to upgrade parts myself.

Did I miss a section on battery life of the HP Dev One or is that missing?

[andyprough]

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.

You can buy it and send it to me. I might have to play with it for a few months, but I'll forward it to you eventually.

[DanL]

16GiB is enough for some but yeah, it is going to be a serious limitation for many. I can't use this for my work but I'm sure many will enjoy.

It has two RAM slots, so you can put 32 or 64GB in if you want. They didn't solder anything on to the mobo.

[PAUL007]

Does it have CPPC enabled in Bios ? cause pavilion 15 don't have and whole boost state range shows as one state.
HP bios malfunctions when try to use Secure boot keys.
Are the using liquid metal paste cause Ryzen temps goes 102C broke my display due to heat , after liquid metal has reduced to 77C.

[horizonbrave]

what's this obsession HP has for the split up/down arrow keys? is there a petition somewhere for stopping this horrible nonsense on all of their bloody laptops? Thanks

[cbxbiker61]

16:9 should have never existed in the first place...
I would be happy with a high quality 1920x1200 AMOLED display.
At higher resolutions you end up scaling everyhing up in any case.

Yep 16:9 1080p was for the early days when everybody though matching their TV screen resolution was magical.

Actually I don't do much upscaling. Instead I end up with more usable screen real estate. Being a programmer, it's an advantage being able to fit more on your screen.