Why are they making 13-inch laptops? It looks like a toy: small keyboard with tiny keys, tiny screen which cannot display IDE, tiny touchpad. If you want something small and lightweight to take with you, isn't it better to buy a 13-inch tablet then?
"isn't it better to buy a 13-inch tablet then?"
No. Tablets are for consuming media and are terrible at anything else. Plus with a keyboard case they weigh more than at 13" laptop.
> Tablets are for consuming media and are terrible at anything else
They are not necessarily great for consuming media, either: in my experience, tablet screens get mucky very quickly, not least because a tablet's primary mode of interaction is rubbing your fingers on it. I think tablets are nice devices, but I wouldn't buy one in preference to a laptop unless I had a specific use-case in mind.
I have one. The keyboard is quite comfortable, even with my large hands. The screen is both high resolution and almost square, making it quite comfortable to code on. The touchpad is a comfortable size and responsive.
I think the size and proportions are ideal for a small, thin laptop. Conversely all of the large tablets I've tried have had uncomfortable detachable keyboards and OK at best touchpads.
One of my favorite laptops ever was a later gen 11" MacBook Air. Fit into the smallest bags. Flipped open and working instantly anywhere. Sturdy, always on me, fantastic for writing and even coding. I just had to get good at switching desktops and apps with hotkeys and trimming down chrome. Traded screen space for physical space. The city became my office.
I'm never getting a tablet again. The lack of keyboard, separate pointing device tenders it a toy. My tablets have all sat unused. I've always preferred a 13" laptop because 99% of the time it's on my desk hooked up to power, keyboard, mouse and huge monitor via a single cable. But for that 1% of the time when I need to bring it with me, I pull out the cable and walk off with it in one hand. It weighs 1kg, has a pretty decent keyboard and a gorgeous OLED screen. And it cost less than a grand.
Isn't the keyboard and touchpad exactly the same as on the 16" ?
I assume they're taking the same approach as Apple, and have the same input components but just padd around on the larger models.
The screen resolution is a tad too low on the framework laptops, but 3~4K would allow for enough pixels to reduce screen elements comfortably. At lrast that worked pretty well with the macbook pro, 13" at max resolution was good for 99% of my work.
You can absolutely run an IDE in 13”, even if it’s not the most comfortable experience. And you can always dock and output to a large external monitor.
