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Re: one up laptop

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Daniel James <daniel@me.invalid> writes:

> 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.

Is the fan removable?

> 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.

My previously new laptop (now my wife's) has that slider built in. On
previous laptops I would use the self adhesive plastic slider cam covers
that vendors give out at symposiums. Got a pile of them. I was delighted
to see laptops including them by design.

> 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.

Pi500+ is $260 now. I don't dare look at what the one-up cost is.

Daniel
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