I wrote a blog post about my experience with the Minisforum V3 AMD Tablet, focusing on how Linux/Fedora/KDE works on this device and how Linux performs on the tablet devices.
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This thing really does have everything 🥲
Thank you very much for the Linux coverage for it. Does the stylus still work in external display mode? That would be the dream…
Sadly the stylus isn’t working in external display mode. I really hope they can work on this… (I think it’s achievable as they already made the keyboard working)
Just a heads up for anyone in the US wanting one, if you sign up for the pre-sale alert, they’ll pretty immediately send you the invite to buy one.
Need to get some OT soon haha
I’ve been looking for a Linux tablet for a while and I think I finally found it. Well written review and I hope it gets better support once released globally.
Good writeup. I wannit
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Did I miss how many nits at full brightness? I use an old Toughpad because it’s 1000nits is usable outdoors.
500nits according to the store.
523 nits according to multiple reviewers.
That’s probably not too bad for daylight.
Only 6 hours on battery? That’s pretty low I’d have thought.
A surface pro gets 3-4 hours in my experience.
Even the surface book 3 with it’s two batteries only got 7 hours for me with use.
It’s all about the TDP of the chip, pixel density and refresh rate of the screen and battery capacity.
Recipe for long battery life is low power CPU, lower resolution (HD vs UHD) screen, no touch input, bigger battery.
Tablets don’t usually follow that recipe.
TDP of the CPU is largely irrelevant if battery life is the goal. You can crank the power down on any Intel system, but you’re still going to get shit battery life of the CPU can’t return to idle.
Older AMD Ryzen chips got amazing battery life at any load. But they’ve been following intel’s race to idle as quickly as possible and battery life at low-mid loads has suffered dramatically. ARM cpus are much better in that regard.
The Zen3+ Ryzens all have lower threshold power modes, it’s just that the dupes tuning a lot of BIOS presets have all the settings whacked out to run them at variable settings. If you get a well tuned BIOS, you get good battery life. The Linux 6.8+ governor settings also allow all individual core engagement with governors, which had a 40-60% battery life boost for some Ryzen chips. The 8000’s should perform even better.
During my normal usage in Linux, which includes web browsing with Firefox, video playback with Haruna Media Player (with
hwdecset toauto), writing in Obsidian, and lightweight coding in Visual Studio Code and Android Studio, the tablet lasts for 6 hours.There’s no such thing as lightweight android studio lol. The battery would likely last much longer just playing a movie at low brightness, which is usually what hardware companies do to measure and advertise battery life.
That’s a very thorough review and interesting to read. Thank you!
Dammit, I really wish I could get this in my country. I love the tablet form factor and it ticks all the boxes I want for my next laptop :(
