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I’m unable to order this laptop without a charging brick which is now illegal in the EU. Same goes for the standard one year warranty. Should be two at minimum. I had my country configured to Belgium while testing this.
Wait til you hear about Hacker News' level of compliance with the GDPR
I did this because I manage a fleet of BSD based server (BSD runs zfs and bhyve with VM on it) and I wanted the same base system for me.
I wonder how BSD friendly those laptop are.
In any case I am so happy to see some open hardware solution.
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Wait til you hear about Hacker News' level of compliance with the GDPR
I'm curious: why is hacker news non-GDPR-compliant?
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True, but contrary to the fruity models, some of these are upgradedable. My Asus netbook started with basic configuration and was maximised during its lifetime, just like any PC desktop.
Except that if you want to save on RAM you'll also have to pick the lower resolution screen and lower rated CPU. These aren't easy upgrades later on.
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They are free to charge you extra for taking the charger out of the box. So I'd grant them a bit of civil disobedience on this one and just take that nice GaN charger. I can see the EU's take on this, and maybe overall this will even be good. I have some nice Anker chargers and can charge everything we have at home with them (added some USB-C to ligthning/micro-USB thingies here and there), but I'd be a bit annoyed i…
The easiest option to implement would be to have separate SKUs for the charger and the laptop. And not three SKUs: laptop with charger, laptop without charger, separate charger. If you ship to multiple countries you can reduce the SKUs even more as the laptop SKU isn’t country specific anymore. Offering a version without the charger for the same price would not reduce ewaste which is the point.