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Hey Syeed, Yeah the MicroCenter website says 50ドル but they've been out of stock for months, I bought mine from a scalper for 80ドル a while back just because I was so interested after Walt posted Jonathan's talk up on the PLUG site. I mainly just wanted to see if I could follow along with everything he covered in his talk and, pleasantly enough I was successful. Not sure if Evolve deserves the credit, or Jonathan... maybe both? However as a "daily driver" the Maestro is definitely a clear step below the currently available, competing models from Asus that are 40ドル to 75ドル more... while the keyboard layout is decent the "feel" of the keys is terrible (Asus is just a moderate improvement, I am kind of a snob from how good ThinkPad keyboards are), the touchpad is tiny (Asus is a big winner there) and not very sensitive, and the plastic chassis is super flimsy. I stripped one of the screws removing the plastic bottom cover putting my SSD in... there are several others there to retain the cover but Evolve's OEM just seems to use a cheaper, thinner grade of resin/plasticizer in general. I've handled 3D printed homebrew laptop chassis that are sturdier. Build quality concerns aside, the fact remains that the Maestro is a real, honest to goodness full featured x86 computer with acceptable specs, running all the latest distros, for well under 100ドル (even after paying a scalper and adding a 15ドル SSD like I did). Even if I couldn't handle it as my daily driver it is super great for "lab"/education/experimentation and if I don't have too much more use for mine after a few months I'll probably be looking for a new home for it so others can learn as well. So stay tuned! -- Adam Schaible plug@schibes.com On Tue, Mar 21, 2023, at 15:21, Syeed Ali via plug wrote: > On 2023年3月21日 11:56:19 -0400 >> Evolve III Maestro > > 50ドル a piece; wow. > > If it's USB 3 bootable, it would definitely be worth it. > > From the pictures I've seen the keyboard layout looks good too. A bad > keyboard is a showstopper for me at any price. > ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug