I was interested until 4GB of RAM. I have 8GB on my 13 year old Thinkpad x201, and that’s sometimes not enough!

I would be ok with 6Gb of ram but 4Gb isn’t enough.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

With patches pending for creating an Acer Aspire 1 embedded controller driver, this Qualcomm Snapdragon powered ARM laptop has “almost full support” with the upstream Linux kernel.

It’s no longer the latest and greatest with it being a two year old device, but for those wanting a low-power and long-battery-life laptop, the Acer Aspire 1 still has some potential for Linux enthusiasts.

Over the course of this year this eight-core ARM laptop has been seeing work on mainline Linux kernel support.

Sent out recently was this patch series creating an embedded controller (EC) driver for the Acer Aspire 1.

Developer Nikita Travkin wrote in that patch series: “The EC would be one of the last pieces to get almost full support for the Acer Aspire 1 laptop in the upstream Linux kernel.”

So for those wanting to play with an ARM Linux laptop using an upstream kernel build and not really concerned about raw performance, the Acer Aspire 1 is looking like it can fit those requirements in early 2024.

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4gb ram is unusable, can you add ram to it?

I’d rather use some sbc on rk3588, tho. It shouldn’t be too hard to pack one of SBCs with it into a laptop case given they often expose eDP (which laptop displays use) or mipi dsi (which is convertible to eDP, but I’m not sure here).

Otherwise, it’s good to have an option to run a proper os on such a low-spec machine. Windows on 4gb ram, eesh