Purism Librem 13 Linux Laptop
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It looks like a Lenovo (thinkpad).
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Wow...its expensive. $1600USD
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@Dashrender $1600 is base price. 4gb ram, 500gb spinning rust. doesnt list the processor. And I thought my Macbook Air was expensive....
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@brianlittlejohn said:
Wow...its expensive. $1600USD
For a "free operating system"
I see what they did there.
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@brianlittlejohn said:
@Dashrender $1600 is base price. 4gb ram, 500gb spinning rust. doesnt list the processor. And I thought my Macbook Air was expensive....
That's ridiculous! The new Surface Book is $1599 starting price too, and it does have SSD and the display detaches to become a slate computer.
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"The Librem 13 is powered by a fifth-generation, 2.2-GHz dual-core Intel Processor. The standard specs list 4 GB DDR3L of RAM, expandable to 16 GB. The review unit, however, was loaded with 8 GB of RAM."
Processor etc.
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@DustinB3403 Found the full specs here:
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Will the price go down into the reasonable range after their crowd funding is done?
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@RojoLoco said:
Will the price go down into the reasonable range after their crowd funding is done?
Why would it need to? Linux fans are often as rabid as MAC fans...
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@RojoLoco said:
Will the price go down into the reasonable range after their crowd funding is done?
Not likely, these things are low volume.
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Sweet! Almost 2 grand for the spec equivalent of a $399 special in the windows world...
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Notice that there is a $500 coupon. So it is $1,100, not $1,600.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Notice that there is a $500 coupon. So it is $1,100, not $1,600.
The $500 coupon cost $475
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@brianlittlejohn said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Notice that there is a $500 coupon. So it is $1,100, not $1,600.
The $500 coupon cost $475
Exactly. It is $1624 to buy it, or $25 off a $500 coupon / credit.
