Currently installing #OpenBSD on a new-to-me resource constrained laptop because I know it will be stable, and fast enough for my needs. Acer Swift 3 with Pentium N5000 and 4GB of soldered RAM. The Intel WiFi is slow, the keyboard isn't backlit, but it has a gorgeous 14" IPS 1080p display and it's fanless so it's completely silent. It's the perfect bedside laptop.
It has a tiny and slow 64GB eMMC main storage but it has an M.2 slot as well (sadly only SATA, no NVMe support) so I chucked in a 1TB drive I had lying around. It's overkill for OpenBSD but it was free and available. Battery life is astounding especially considering the laptop is about seven years old at this point; in Windows 10 it was getting a good 8 hours of actual use browsing the web and light gaming. I expect 4-6 hours with OpenBSD.
I'm leaving Windows on the eMMC so I can fix the BIOS when necessary; it has a tendency to randomly corrupt itself after booting any non-Windows OS and the BIOS recovery utility is Windows-only. That's honestly the only flaw I've found on this otherwise neat little machine.
Morgan
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2025-10-11 03:03:48 UTC
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