Personally I don’t get the hype with any of these products. Just because they run Linux by default isn’t a strong enough selling point when I can get better specs for cheaper elsewhere and install Linux myself.
If one can afford to pay the higher price, then Star Labs’ (or System76’ etc) laptops will offer far superior Linux support. Modern hardware from non-‘Linux-first’ vendors have shown causing troubles with ‘deep sleep’. Issues like these can and have been resolved on Star Labs’ (or System76’ etc) devices. Furthermore, they don’t only sell ‘Linux-laptops’, but they also contribute to the upstream of coreboot and other Linux projects. Thus, by buying their laptops, one is actively contributing to that cause.
This. If you’ve ever bought a laptop and then realized you couldn’t use the touchpad or thr WiFi because it wasn’t supported in Linux, you’d see the importance of a vendor that explicitly supports linux.
I’ve also been in charge if buying laptops at work for employee’s. After a few devices wouldn’t work 100% in Linux, we only bought devices that were explicitly made for Linux. It’s not worth the risk of throwing $1k-$3k at a device only to learn later that it’s not usable.
Wow almost 2k for a laptop? Ok it has actually good specs, but still it’s alot.
I checked out the website on my phone and it was a hot mess. Wtf is going on there?
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Cool! I think 16" laptops are too big, but nice specs. Amd 7040 series is looking great
Removable camera and killswitches? That’s pretty sweet!
