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I'm excited about a company that will ensure a good, compatible experience with linux on a laptop. I develop on mac osx and linux vms (vagrant). I want to move to linux but the linux desktop experience just isn't there yet.
Partially offtopic, but looking at the case of that laptop I wondered if I am the only one that slides them to the right to have the touchpad and the spacebar aligned with the central symmetry axis of my body? That means having 2/3 of the screen to the right of my eyes, which is a waste because I end up piling windows with important information to the left, for not having to tilt my head to the right. I believe that…
I just want a halfway decent laptop with a 15in screen, without an optical drive or number pad. But paying Macbook Pro prices feels like a punch in the gut.
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Especially that 500GB HDD. What open-source firmware is loaded onto that?
From the website: "There are also hardware components, like the HD or SSD, that are flashable, and therefore upgradeable, but that currently run firmware that is not yet freed. We are working to get freed versions of this firmware! Being the first manufacturer to care about freedom and privacy, we are making a lot of progress upstream."
Except for silver casing...
Partially offtopic, but looking at the case of that laptop I wondered if I am the only one that slides them to the right to have the touchpad and the spacebar aligned with the central symmetry axis of my body? That means having 2/3 of the screen to the right of my eyes, which is a waste because I end up piling windows with important information to the left, for not having to tilt my head to the right. I believe that…
The 10^6$ question is whether Richard Stallman[1] would use this? [1] http://richard.stallman.usesthis.com/
That's a bit outdated - Stallman's now using a ThinkPad X60: https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html OT, but an amusing line from that page: > I never pay for anything on the Web. Anything on the net that requires payment, I don't do. Or more succintly: > Out, out, damned Spotify! Flick off, Netflix!
I have a non-core boot X61s Lenovo that happens to have an ath5k wifi card built in (there are various different configurations of the X61s so don't assume they will all have an Atheros card) and I have not seen a Linux it could not run. OpenBSD works fine, so I assume that other BSDs would.
A little underpowered by today's standards, and tends to get warm if you are compiling a lot of stuff or other processor intensive applications, but fine for what I do most days.
Nearly $2000 for a laptop I could have bought for that price in early 2008? Sorry, call me a stickler, but I just don't see the value here.
Other people may see value where you do not however.
So, does it really offer something that this doesn't: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00GIVX0FM/ ? Except for silver casing...
IIRC Ubuntu sends some analytics data. There is no guarantee about the rest.