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Review of the Purism Librem 13

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Re: Review of the Purism Librem 13

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I am not sure. I almost never do anything graphical, and I mainly work from the keyboard.

Does highlighting text (click, dragging the cursor over text) work well? That's all it needs to do, point click, and be able to control the dragging.

In my experience frequently not. I couldn’t highlight text in terminals sometimes.

And the | key isn’t functional without a systemd patch.

Re: Review of the Purism Librem 13

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I've got a very similar setup, except with a T430s rather than an X230 (and no new speakers, even though that's probably the thing I hate the most). I'm probably not ready to replace it yet; it ends up being a terminal more than anything else and the performance is fine for where it's at. But... every now and then when I'm browsing, it'll slow to a crawl, and I pine for the fjords/something newer. I've been holding b…

It's difficult to quantify, but I'd say the only thing I notice is battery life. On the x230, before the mods I've made to modernize it a bit more, the battery life was somewhere south of 4 hours. With the Librem 13 I do get 6-10 hours depending on work load.

Cheers for that; I'll stick with what I've got for a while longer then :) (but I'll admit the battery life is killing me currently).
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