Now being built in a 13" configuration. Somehow this has an actual onboard ethernet adapter with pop-down jack but the bigger Librem 15 shipped with a USB ethernet adapter.
Is anybody else weirded out by the fact the page starts off with a dozen “reviews” but the product isn’t shipping yet? All the reviews are basically just repeating back exactly what Librem told them to say, no?
Yes, sure, prerelease reviews are common for other products, but usually the reviewer has at least had the opportunity to hold the product in their own two hands.
The big box of fail for everybody else confuses me. What’s the difference between supporting freedom and promoting freedom? What does it mean that Lenovo doesn’t have a free kernel? (What does that mean about my kernel?)
If free hardware is your thing, I’m sure this is great, but I find the marketing for it to be substantially less honest than e.g., Apple’s. I don’t think a product who’s primary selling point is transparency should need to resort to such gimmicks.
While I’m hating, “the most popular Mac and Windows compatible software preinstalled” seems particularly disingenuous. You most likely know what that means (LibreOffice and Firefox, woohoo), but in the event you don’t, my rhetorical old relatives will think you can install Windows or Mac software on this thing.
Is anybody else weirded out by the fact the page starts off with a dozen “reviews” but the product isn’t shipping yet? All the reviews are basically just repeating back exactly what Librem told them to say, no?
Yes, sure, prerelease reviews are common for other products, but usually the reviewer has at least had the opportunity to hold the product in their own two hands.
The big box of fail for everybody else confuses me. What’s the difference between supporting freedom and promoting freedom? What does it mean that Lenovo doesn’t have a free kernel? (What does that mean about my kernel?)
If free hardware is your thing, I’m sure this is great, but I find the marketing for it to be substantially less honest than e.g., Apple’s. I don’t think a product who’s primary selling point is transparency should need to resort to such gimmicks.
While I’m hating, “the most popular Mac and Windows compatible software preinstalled” seems particularly disingenuous. You most likely know what that means (LibreOffice and Firefox, woohoo), but in the event you don’t, my rhetorical old relatives will think you can install Windows or Mac software on this thing.
I think the reviews are for the Librem 15 which is shipping (but is similar hardware and software).
eh… The Digital Trends quote is “Librem 13 offers unbridled privacy for a price.” Though technically, that’s not a quote, it’s the title of the article: http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/librem-13-laptop-offers-unbridled-privacy-for-a-price/ But there’s nothing on that page that’s not on the crowdsupply page.
Hovering over the other links, almost all have 13 in the url. (where’s my fact checker hat? :))