This is very cool. I’d also like to see a Linux version.
Also looking at their job spec for full stack developers and nice to see a company focused on server rendered html. No react, no graphQL, no JSON apis. Should be lightening fast and as a dev I like the fact they are choosing a stack that’s appropriate for their product (an ecom marketplace). I find that a lot of time is lost these days to fixing overly engineered stacks when the end user just wants to see a pretty simple, nicely designed HTML page at the end.
Looks good and if it had support for linux this would be an instant buy for me. Unfortunately "We're working with some of the most popular Linux distributions on testing and support, and we'll publish step by step guides on setup for those." is not quite it.
The only thing I would change would be the screen. One with more nits would be really nice, and having a Ryzen version of this would also be nice, but I totally understand the availability problems of AMD processors nowadays. The rest of the laptop is pretty good.
Being able to change components, even the CPU and the side connectors, is a lot to a thin and modern laptop that cost around $1000.
I hope we have soon some 3rd-party analysis to know how well they are made. After having a laptop with hinge and structural problems with totally fine hardware, it's a big deal for me.
I see the idea of "phone bricks" finally moved to laptops and that is cool. But in order to lift off that concept has to be open in terms of electrical and mechanical specifications. Otherwise I think it will be just another minor unsignificant event on laptops market.
Without support for an open source OS and ideally open schematics, bootloader, etc, these are doomed to become unsupported and in landfills like everything else. Just more marketing with promises they can't keep.
If companies want to be honest about providing consumer repairable products they should behave as though they will go out of business at any time... Which incidentally might earn them the respect and endorsement of people that understand how supply chains work to help keep them in business.
Yes I am going to be that guy. Open everything or please don't pretend to care about changing anything.
Compare to Raptor Engineering that opens almost literally everything they possibly can. It may be expensive but when you buy a Talos II it is yours.
This looks very impressive, high specification available, 3:2 high resolution screen, but with a "sensible" resolution where it should be comfortable to run at 100% scaling and the customisability of the IO ports is very unique.
Depending on the Linux compatibility of these I will definitely be interested once there are GB keyboard layouts available.
The side ports are just USB-C internally, and they're going to release reference materials for people who want to make compatible modules to plug into them.
Also looking at their job spec for full stack developers and nice to see a company focused on server rendered html. No react, no graphQL, no JSON apis. Should be lightening fast and as a dev I like the fact they are choosing a stack that’s appropriate for their product (an ecom marketplace). I find that a lot of time is lost these days to fixing overly engineered stacks when the end user just wants to see a pretty simple, nicely designed HTML page at the end.