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by jazzyjackson 239 days ago
I know minis don't sell well but I wish they kept the Air 11" format but without the bezel one way or another

My craving has been answered by the GPD WIN MAX 2, a 10" mini laptop with lots of ports and bitchin' performance (AI 9 chip sips battery). It's windows, but an upgrade to pro to disable the annoying stuff via group policy + never signing into a Microsoft account, it's amazing how much faster it is than a machine that's always trying to authenticate to the cloud before it does anything. Wake from sleep is also excellent which was the main thing that kept me using MacBooks. Anyway it's the first computer I've bought in a decade that has some innovation to it.

Edit: there's a slot for a cellular modem but I haven't done enough research to find one that will play nice on US networks