I genuinely thought that this was a meme about stereotypes around how different countries name products for a second.
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Well, "european". But have to start somewhere.
Are they not?
Parts are not. Didn't look more to see if assembled in the EU or just designed in
The brands are, yes.
American CPU, made in Taiwan, assembled in China, and somehow European tech?
Let me know when itโs a RISC-V laptop made at STMicroelectronics with memory made at GlobalFoundries in Dresden!
The post clearly says European brands.
There is no European-made x86 CPU available.
yet
It will take at least 10 years to establish a manufacturer in Europe. What are you supposed to do if you need a computer now?
(mind, you should always buy secend-hand)
Sadly GloFo has its headquarters in New York (state) and is owned by a UAE investor. So would you really call that European then?
Besides that it doesn't seem to produce or be capable of producing DDR5 and focuses on logic instead.
Nothing is perfect.
Man, I really miss when we had home computers to rival the Americans, like the ZX81.
How are they in terms of reparability?
I really like the ethos of framework.... alas, they are from the US. But if you are going to buy any US tech, you can't do better than them.
When you think about it, framework makes the perfect work laptop.
Why?
They are too overpriced to buy for personal use, but a company doesn't care and will write it off in five years, at which point you can buy it for basically nothing, order a new mainboard, polish it up a little and you have yourself a brand new high end laptop for under a thousand. The system does not account for actually repairable electronics :)
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Anyone knows how's StarBook's support and general quality? The Horizon looks pretty damn good, but is pricy, compared to Tuxedo's Aura 14, and Tuxedo has a super cool support app built-in to their Linux distro.
Linux support? amazing, been running Debian on it no problems, everything working out of the box. Customer support? no idea, I had no need to contact them
You have a StarBook? Would you mind saying which one? I was all but decided on a Tuxedo, but then I saw how (seemingly) sexy the Horizon looks, and now I'm a bit on the fence... :D
sorry, I misread, I have StarLabs Lite, not the Horizon. But I am seriously considering upgrading to it
Oooh, that's even more interesting! OK, tell me more, please! :D
How's battery life? They say it's "up to 12 hours", but I'm assuming that's "lowest brightness, no BT, no WiFi", staring at a black wallpaper"?
Which OS did you go with? Debian? And were there any issues with drivers for the touch-screen?
Do you have it with the keyboard/cover? Does it automatically go to sleep when you close it? Same with the power button press - does it go to sleep and then recover without issues?
TUXEDO is excellent. very happy with mine. they're also on Mastodon
How long have you had it? No issues?
over a year. no issues. i'm running EndeavourOS.
Distribution support outside of the standard Ubuntu/tuxedo os was terrible for a long time. The fan support was essentially broken on my laptop except on the officially supported systems. Your can manually compile the (bloaty node.js) tuxedo control center, but instructions on GitHub are wrong and incomplete.
I recently saw that they now added support for Debian 13 though, so that might be worth another try.
There is also a community project tuxedo-rs but with limited device support. Doesn't support fan control on my device but is much nicer than the original otherwise.
I have one running Arch. Works well, AUR has the tuxedo control centre and Tuxedo provides a short guide for Arch.
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I would not use an unsupported OS on a laptop, of course you had trouble with it. Laptops have always been notorious for having worse hardware support in Linux.
This is not a ding against the laptop.
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How is the experience importing from the UK these days? I have avoided the UK at all costs since brexit. As I didn't feel like possibly having to deal with customs and delays, etc. Is it better now, including automatic taxes? Or best to still avoid it if there is a reasonable alternative?
At least in Finland last I did 2 years ago it was still a pain, and extra taxes
Are these available in the US?
Tuxedo and starlabs both ship to US. First time hearing of slimbook for me.
Very good list of recommendments, also my choices!
(To be fair, there are more good ones in that thread, but I'm not complaining).
edit: also, there's Novacustom which is Dutch and lets you customise a lot of shit.
Actually had a terrible experience with star labs, not recommended
What happened?
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The biggest down side of my inifintity book is that my right shift key is a painful stretch. Because they use full sized arrow keys and the up takes up the useful half of the right shift.
So half the time i hit up instead of shift and start typing my sentence on the wrong line. Its fucking infuriating.
God knows why they made that choice but next laptop i will be sure to watch out for that
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