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by morphar 2437 days ago
I am seriously considering Purism Librem 13 (https://puri.sm/products/librem-13/) as a replacement for my MBP. I haven't had any hands on experience with it though, so if anybody have tried it, I would love to hear about your experience. I like the privacy first approach and I think it is becoming more and more essential to have this kind of alternative.
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morphar 2437 days ago
And then this landed on HN: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Zlatan-T...

Basically Zlatan Todoric the former CTO of Purism calls Purism's claims "shady" :(

Too bad... I had high hopes for Purism.

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kgarten 2437 days ago
Not sure I can take him too serious. I have now 3 laptops from purism (2 old 13” and one 15” ). they are great.

He’s mostly talking about the phone project (which is hard).

Don’t know about Purism, yet have friends who worked with/on Jolla and his comments sound too harsh. PinePhone is interesting, yet haven’t seen much and I doubt they will be doing better ... Jolla shipped (yes with some proprietary blobs ), but was a great product (loved their work also before on the Nokia n110 ... my first mobile internet device).

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morphar 2436 days ago
Thank you for sharing that! I was ready to ditch Apple entirely, before I read that interview. But maybe I should just with the 13" Purism and a PinePhone :)
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kgarten 2437 days ago
Would also argue that Purism is still better than Dell, Huawaii or any other laptop manufacturer :)
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morphar 2436 days ago
No doubt! My biggest worry would be whether the phone/company still exists in a year.
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Madeindjs 2437 days ago
It sound very good. I would love to have a feedback on this product because I think it expensive (start at 1100€ for 8 GO RAM + 250 GO ...)
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morphar 2437 days ago
According to the article I just shared, it seems like it's not just expensive, but unnecessarily expensive :(
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kgarten 2437 days ago
I'm using the 15" as I'm a sucker for 4K screens. Very happy with it.
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morphar 2437 days ago
Thanks for sharing! I'm a sucker for 4k as well, but not so much for big laptops ;) I was hoping for a 13" 4k from Purism, before reading what Zlatan Todoric had to say about Purism.
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