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Aral Balkan

Be careful ordering the new from Systems.

If their system declines your credit card, it still places a pre-authorisation for the full amount into your bank account – thereby reducing the balance of your account for the full amount. The authorisation is for a whole month and so you cannot touch that money for a month.

I called and spoke with them and they told me there’s nothing they can do on their end and my bank won’t investigate unless they take the money.

Screenshot of my bank transactions showing three transactions from Sp Star Labs Systems, all for €617.45. The top one says ‘Today’ (which makes it look like it was fully debited but my bank assures me it’s a pre-authorisation), the middle one says ‘Declined - Today’ and the last one says ‘Pre-authorised - Today’.
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Aral Balkan

Right, so I just put in an order, selected their invoice option at checkout and was able to transfer them the money via IBAN in seconds. Wish I’d done that from the start.

*Phew!* That was way harder than it needed to be.

(Again, I’ll update you all if/when they get back to me let me know the issue with failed transactions resulting in preauthorisations is fixed. Until then, if you’re going to pre-order the , I’d highly recommend you pay by invoice.)

Aral Balkan

So, after all that, I’m back to being very excited about my early(ish) birthday present (it doesn’t ship for another two months).

I have some very neat plans for this little tablet… hehehe!

:awesome:

A tablet PC running Ubuntu. Around it representations of its four sides (showing off how thin they are and what connectors they have). The sides includes a volume rocker, power button, a micro HDMI port, two USB-C ports, a micro SD slot, and a headphone jack.
#StarLabs#StarLite#Linux
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Aral Balkan

@morpheo I don’t really plan on drawing with it so I’d much rather it was optimised for my fingers :)

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Coralie Renée

@aral
Hiya,

So it doesn't have any drawing features then...? 😢

Looking at what's out there to replace my samsung tablet S6 lite when it'll go down (it's an old one I buyed from someone).

I do sketchnoting and use it to take notes...

@morpheo

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Mattias Schlenker

@aral I like portable stuff, but I also made the switch to ortholinear (for #dyspraxia a great thing). So I decided to replace my aging Lenovo #ThinkPad x220 by a refurbished Dell Latitude 5290 2in1 tablet. I am quite happy with it. I am typing this with this "old" tablet running Ubuntu 22.04 with an ortholinear 47 keys keyboard.

Of course the #StarLite is a nice modern alternative.

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Stewart X Addison

@mattias @aral I still use my x220 tablet although it's showing quite a bit of wear now - and a crack in the screen means I can't use the touch screen any more :'( I'm currently typing this on a Pinetab-V (RISC-V tablet) but this is nowhere near ready for the mass market yet and the first usable GUI Linux ported to it just came out very recently for it - Let's see in a couple of years...

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