Hi peeps, I would like to get some high end laptop with arm or other similar chip that would be able to run slackware aarm on it. I see lenovo has a Snapdragon version of their Yoga.
Any other suggestions rathern than a Pinebook ?

Purpose of use would be purely office stuff and development of slackware packages , gnome etc...

I would say wait for the next macbook air because by then Asahi Linux will be supported
But that's not gauranteed.
I love my Lenovo AMD x13 and think this form factor in ARM (which they recently released?) would be pretty cool to play with.

Hi, I am not a very big fan of Apple products as then you get a bit tied up anyway, I believe this world of ARM laptops will surely become more and more interesting.

Here's a shiny X13 article
https://news.lenovo.com/pressroom/pr...ry-life-ai-5g/

Woow, this seems to be a nice baby. This kind of machine I am looking for. Now you maybe know some other similar ones ? Maybe other brand ?
Would be really good to see if I am able to run slackware on it. I have a chance to test on a Lenovo 630 series, but I would need a slackware live cd.

Is there any work for a slackware live usb key for arm ? I know there is Aliens live slackware for x86.

Take a look a the PineBook

https://www.pine64.org/pinebook-pro/
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...ro-4175662227/

Yeah I was looking at that too, thanks. Meanwhile I got this link out of google:

https://github.com/aarch64-laptops/build

Seems interesting.

And this Huawei thingy too:
https://www.smartprix.com/laptops/hu...b-ppd1mnpmnc45

Will take a deeper look into this step by step, and will try fedora on the Yoga snapdragon I have access too, then in mean time if somebody has some other experience
with slackware on similar babies I am all ears and eyes.

Check out the Considerations around Hardware Models primer before you buy anything.

ARM is not like x86 - any currently unsupported Hardware Models need direct integration support within the OS.

I had a bad experience with hardware I purchased to integrate into Slackware. Then the company I bought the hardware from discontinued it and released the LTS version. The LTS hardware had the same chip set but different components on it, such as Ethernet. I bought three of them. Luckily they were much cheaper than a laptop.

My point is, make sure the hardware will be supported for the foreseeable future. While my problem wasn't that big a deal, an expensive laptop would be. Nothing worse then having to patch upstream patches and later finding out the manufacturer will not be contributing. You end up being upstream.

I guess you need to think a bit different.
How heavy/light should it be?
How much battery life?
Ram/Ssd/Hdd capacity?
Your budget?
If its gonna stay on your desk permanently, then why not desktop PC?

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Thanks @drmozes for the links, and @mralk3 for the headsup.
@subscrive, for sure it wont stay only on my desk. Thats a sure thing. About other things I will adopt myself, basically this
laptop will be used for my company emails and browsing mostly. But sometimes also to program something, play around a bit etc.

Acer spin 513 is around 189 bucks. https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_fro...n+513&_sacat=0

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