[naranana]

>The laptop's clearly not "bad" in some objective sense

11.6 inch, 1366 x 768 pixel display, an Allwinner A64 ARM Cortex-A53 quad-core processor with Mali-400MP2 graphics, 1GB of RAM, 4GB of eMMC storage

Everything about that is objectively bad. Those are the regular specs any piece of consumer hardware would have over ten years ago. I'm sure an ancient Pentium 4 would simply crush that processor.

>It's probably subjectively bad to many people, in which case it's clearly not meant for them

What kind of a public would this laptop have? With those specs you can barely run a web browser.

[kmichaels]

So fundamentally what the author is saying is that this laptop is bad is a way that it was never meant to be good. And that's what makes the title click bait because the author is clearly aware of this.

Clearly it was never meant to be as good as a MacBook Pro.

It was meant to be good as an open source laptop (which it is, as one of the few open laptop designs that exists).

[Dylan16807]

It's not clickbait to say "bad" to mean "bad in all other ways".

[chriswarbo]

> 11.6 inch, 1366 x 768 pixel display, an Allwinner A64 ARM Cortex-A53 quad-core processor with Mali-400MP2 graphics, 1GB of RAM, 4GB of eMMC storage

Nothing about that affects what I said.

> What kind of a public would this laptop have?

Before getting my current libreboot X60, my workhorse was an OLPC XO-1: 7.5" screen @ 1200x900, 433MHz AMD Geode CPU with integrated graphics, 256MB RAM and 1GB onboard storage. That sounds like a similar sort of spec, and it served me very well for many years; the battery life and sunlight-readable screen were especially nice, as I could use it while sat in the local park.

> With those specs you can barely run a web browser.

Web browsers have been around for decades; I'm sure it's fine for accessing information (the original intent of the Web). Maybe it can't run the latest bloatware, or support spying/ad platforms like Facebook, but I'd count that as a feature ;)

[tormeh]

Stallman?