Palmtop 2024 | Paperstack
Sep 29, 2024 palmtop netbook hardware laptop
All that a snip at 2846.41 SEK or around $280 - though it would have been a smidgeon more as the buying power of Kronor has gone up a bit since then. I’ve been wanting a very light device that’s a full computer for travel purposes for a while now, and we had a very imminent trip to the US… tempting.
I’m a bit suspicious of out-of-EU vendors at the best of times, and I’d not bought anything from AliExpress before. While this device wasn’t that cheap, it was cheap enough that I was willing to take the risk. Aside from the risk of getting a box of sand or something or just nothing ever delivered, I was aware that there was the possibility that the device would be garbage, or so underpowered that it wasn’t useful to me, or that Linux wouldn’t support enough of the hardware for it to be useful.
So how did it work out in the end? In short - it had one big annoyance and a few smaller ones but mostly seems pretty good! Here are those annoyances from largest to smallest:
