Officework price still $797 so best option is to get price beat from Officework to bring it down to $720.33 if your local store have stock.
Officework link: https://www.officeworks.com.au/shop/officeworks/p/lenovo-due…
Amazon and Officework have the same model number: 82QS000AAU and both come with Pen also.
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OLED in a chromebook?
What a time to be alive.
does anyone know if this will run linux (beta) natively?
Yep. I mean it's not really "native" per se, Linux on Chromebooks is a container/VM, but yes this one has it just like other Chromebooks :)
Bummer. Need it Beta specific. Sideload wont cut it unfortunately.
Just to be sure I haven't accidentally mislead you — Linux on this Chromebook is as native as Linux on any Chromebook can get. That is to say, you can turn it on in Settings and use a Terminal to install Debian software. It's called Crostini, and used to sometimes be referred to as "Linux (beta)".
Yes. Instructions here:
https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/9145439?hl=en
and
https://au.pcmag.com/linux/89550/how-to-install-linux-on-you…
List of some of the Debian apps (and instructions) that you can more easily install for ARM64:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Crostini/wiki/index/
This vs Samsung tab s7+ ?
Depends what you need it for. Samsung is much better if you're going to use it as a tablet, form factor isn't as wide, OS is made for hands. Chrome OS didn't feel very intuitive when I was playing with it, mixed versions of Android and Chrome apps. This particular unit sometimes gets confused when you detach/attach the keyboard.
Duet 5 runs full desktop version of Chrome if you need that. Would be good for basic school/office work.
Screen is bigger on duet, but wasn't sharp on text - not sure if it's using pentile arrangement. S7+ screen is better, 120hz too.
Speakers way better on the S7+, these have bad audio for a tablet.
I guess you get what you pay for with the S7+
As others have said, depends entirely on what you're trying to do and what your expectations are. I sold my S7+ after trying the original Duet and have been very happy with the Duet. The Duets are not the device to buy if what you really want is an Android tablet and your primary use is Android apps. But for things like work that can be mostly done with a full browser and especially if you make use of Linux, these convertibles have potential that straight Android doesn't have.
For my personal use case (uni work, using Linux, inking documents) the Duet is the device I've always dreamed of, but the average person wouldn't share my use case and is probably better served with an Android tablet. The rest of it, being hardware, obviously the S7+ wins. For me, the gains of Chrome OS over bare Android combined with cost savings make the (original) Duet more than worth the hardware downgrade, but that's just me.
That said, with the Duet 5 being much closer in cost it's more appropriate to compare hardware, and in that department the display on the S7+ being much higher resolution, better subpixel arrangement (text perfectly clear), and 120Hz is a major advantage. That's the reason I'm sticking with the original Duet for now - it has a higher resolution screen and great text clarity, and I mostly work with documents of some form. Not going to give that up and have to pay more than double the cost at the same time. So I would probably go with the S7+, but I would also need to cart around my laptop more frequently to fill in the gaps not having a Linux environment available on the tablet in the same capacity.
Hard to price match with no in-store stock at office works?
I was keen on one of these but just fired up the Chromebook I got for kids for school and not sure I'd ever need something more powerful. Screen is nice though