BBS: TELESC.NET.BR Assunto: Re: one up laptop De: Daniel James Data: Thu, 12 Feb 2026 13:47:08 +0000 ----------------------------------------------------------- On 20/10/2025 00:13, Daniel wrote: > Has anyone here looked at, or purchased, a one up rpi laptop? I've > read a few reviews of it and, while it appears to be a solid product, > I'm a bit turned off by the cooling fan next to the heat sync. Is that > fan absolutely necessary for users never intending on overclocking the > cpu? I have now received my Argon One Up and had the chance to play with it a bit. The CM5 has a thermal pad to connect it to the metal cover that acts as a heatsink, but the cover doesn't get more than slightly warm in operation. The fan does not come on in normal use, but I should stress that I haven't exactly thrashed the CPU -- I'm not overclocking and I haven't tried any heavily compute-intensive tasks. The CM5 does not support a power-saving mode, so closing the lid can't put it into a sleep state. When the lid is closed the display is blanked and there is an option to power down after a few minutes (default 5). That's not idea if you're used to carrying a laptop around in sleep state for rapid restart (I'm not: I always power down for security reasons, so it doesn't bother me). All in all it's a well-made unit. The screen is nice (and bright) and the keyboard is not awful. The touchpad is also not awful, I've used better but I've also used much worse. One gripe is that the SSD bay has screw holes for retaining an 2280, 2260, or 2242 M.2 SSD, but not 2230 (so guess which size I wanted to fit). 2230 will work, but without a retaining screw it could work loose. I thought, at first, that my webcam was broken, but I discovered that there is a (tiny) slider that puts it into "privacy mode"; with that in the correct position it works nicely. One quirk I haven't solved yet is that a USB mouse is recognized and works correctly if plugged in after booting, but if it is connected before startup it is not recognized. I have also not yet managed to boot from an SD card (USB stick is fine) but I have only tried one card and there may be an issue with its contents. Reading/writing the SD card after booting from SSD works fine. I'm not sure that the One Up is very good value with the current crazy prices for Raspberry Pi kit with high RAM capacity and for SSDs (it was good at the kickstarter price) ... but I suppose other laptops will suffer similar price-hikes, too. -- Cheers, Daniel. --- PyGate Linux v1.5.11 * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10) ----------------------------------------------------------- [Voltar]