StarLite Mk IV: the MOST PORTABLE laptop with Linux!

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00:00 Intro
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01:40 Design and Build Quality
04:47 The Specs: low power, fanless
07:30 The Display: tiny, big bezels, but a good panel
08:26 Webcam, mic, and speakers: a mixed bag
09:46 Keyboard and touchpad: really good
11:08 Performance and battery life: very, very lightweight
14:24 Who is this laptop for?
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What we have here is an 11 inch laptop, with a full matte black anodized aluminium body, which is super rigid and strong, and looks really, really good. It’s also insanely thin, at 1.36 mm in height.

Speaking of the bezels, they’re really a weak point here. They’re huge, both on the top and bottom, and on the sides, and that’s really a shame.

Another small issue: the chassis is an absolute fingerprint magnet.

Of course, you can also open the starlite, either by removing the little trapdoor with 2 screws, to access the SSD.

The Starlite comes with one CPU option, an intel Pentium N5030. This is a quad core CPU with a base clock of 1.10 Ghz, with turboboost up to 3.10 Ghz.

The graphics part is the integrated intel UHD 605.

This CPU is accompanied by 8Gb of RAM, it’s 2400Mh DDR4, it’s soldered.

It also embarks 240GB of SSD, with options to go up to 480 or 960GB, and again, you can upgrade that yourself.

In terms of I/O, you get a USB C port that also does charging, you get a micro HDMI output, 2 full size USB 3.0 ports, a DC jack for the included barrel charger, a headphone jack, and a micro SD card.

You also get wifi and bluetooth, of course, with 802.11 ac and bluetooh 5.1.

The display 11.6 inches. It’s 1080p, 16:9, it’s matte, and it’s covered by something that looks like glass, but definitely has an anti glare coating.

The viewing angles are really good, the colors feel nice and accurate, and it’s bright enough at 300 nits. It supports 100% of SRGB, and has a color depth of 71%, with a contrast ratio of 1000:1.

The top bezel hosts the 1080p webcam, which is serviceable. This webcam is accompanied by a microphone that is … bad. As per the speakers, they’re surprisingly decent.

The keyboard is relatively small, or course, and certain keys don’t have a standard size, but it also doesn’t feel cramped. It’s backlit, with 2 levels of brightness, and it feels surprisingly good to type on!

Key travel is nice, not too shallow, the keys aren’t mushy at all, they actuate really well, they’re stable, and you won’t get any missed presses. It also sounds pretty good.

THe touchpad is covered in glass, and it’s super smooth, although it does pick up fingerprints like crazy. Gestures feel really good on this thing, and it’s very precise and nice to use.

So by now, you probably figured out that the CPU isn’t a beast.
On geekbench 5, it gets a single core score of 550, and a multi core score of 1544

Day to day performance is pretty good, though, you’ll rarely notice you’re not using a more powerful CPU, even with a lot of browser tabs open, with a video playing in the background, the device stayed reactive, and didn’t stutter.

Of course, gaming on that thing isn’t really an option.

At mid brightness, on power saver mode, playing youtube videos in a loop, over wifi, it lasted for 5 hours. With a more typical workload of web browsing, writing scripts, listening to music and the occasional youtube video, it lasted for 6 and a half hours.

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