| I am sad that choice in Linux laptops is greatly diminished compared to six, seven years ago. Hackers, recommend some other vendors in Eurozone because Tuxedo leaves me barely satisfied. Bought a laptop from them in 2017, it shipped out eight days after ordering. The good: Great value for the cost, all components properly supported with drivers. The bad: The product photos on the shop site tell a selective truth. I have some gripes with the hardware design that I only noticed after unpacking and using the device. 1. ⇞⇟⇱⇲ keys are positioned unergonomically. On keyboards in Acer and Sony laptops they are in a much better place. 2. One rubber foot is attached to the rechargeable battery. If you take it out to conserve product life, the device will wobble considerably. The battery is also very difficult to remove. In an Acer or Sony laptop one unlocks a grasp and pulls it off the back-side, this can be done blind and with one hand and with the device oriented for normal operation. In the Tuxedo, one has to turn over the device because the rechargeable battery lifts out of the bottom. One has to risk breaking off a finger nail each time to get some leverage. At the same time, one hand lifts it out, and the other hand holds open the grasp, otherwise it snaps shut again, and one can't help but apply some pressure into the opposite direction. That's fucking retarded. What was the responsible engineer thinking? 3. The power supply pack is huge and heavy. 4. After powering up, the device always starts out with keyboard backlight switched on. There is no BIOS option to permanently disable it, one always has to wait until the OS is sufficiently loaded to switch it off. |
There are mobile workstation lines with awesome hardware (like Xeon, ECC, Quadro) which support Linux officially. If you have extra money to spend, you might want to check them out as well. Every major brand has those. They usually are bulky and not that mobile, but they are powerful.