I’m looking at getting myself a new laptop to replace my Dell Inspiron. I’ll be using it for some on the go video editing.
I watch TheLinuxExperiment and he seems happy enough with Tuxedo Laptops. I was looking at the TUXEDO Stellaris 16 - Gen5 - AMD but I’m open to other recommendations.
Have you compared them to Framework? That’s what I would probably go for 8f I’d need to buy a laptop
I haven’t looked at them recently, definitely need to give them another look.
I think they are great. Yes, they are a little expensive, but I am really happy with mine, and I’ve heard only good things about the Stellaris from a friend who owns one.
I have an older one and I love it. Never has given me issues, is fast, with lots of RAM, and it was cheap back them. Probably now it’s more expensive, but it’s difficult to find AMD laptops and they are the only linux laptop vendors with AMD (that I found).
Definitely would recommend over shit like Dell or other linux laptop vendors that only have NVIDIA.
I bought a Polaris 15 last year and have no problems with it. The combination of the iGPU from AMD and the dGPU works out of the box and the I/O is fast enough for me.
Btw. I use arch on it as daily driver.
Keep in mind TheLinuxExperiment is sponsored by Tuxedo, so don’t take his opinion too seriously.
That’s why I thought I’d ask here as well.
Looks good to me. Great specs and the price seems fine for what you’re getting too. If there’s no common issues people are having, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with this Laptop.
I have one, the fan is active a bit too often and my battery became slightly bloated after 2 years of ownership. I did have it plugged in and didn’t use the plugged in battery mode, because I didn’t know about it, so maybe that was the issue. They did send me a new battery free of charge and I replaced it, so that was a good customer support experience. I general, I would recommend them.
I’m currently sitting with an Aura 15 Gen 2, and I’m definitely happy with it.
I do wish they’d get their firmware onto LVFS, but that’s about my main complaint.it looks pretty thick (2.6cm)
My last few laptops have been Tuxedo. Can heartily recommend. The tux key instead of the windows logo is a very nice touch. The first ones were 13", and their tiny fans could be rather loud during normal operation, but now I have a 15" and it’s a dream.
I bought InfinityBook Pro 14.
This is perfect laptop for me, besides one thing that my unit has something bad with touchpad, randomly dropping percision which is super annoying as it mess with my muscle memory a couple of times a day.I have send it to Tuxedo for touchpad replacement, then motherboard replacement… still the same issue, no idea what is happening. Maybe something with connectors, maybe they haven’t actually replaced anything.
Other than the touchpad on my unit, it would be perfect in terms of practical aspects.Buy a thinkpad. You can customize them on Lenovos website and save money by removing the operating system etc.
They used to be good. Are they still worth it?
They are okay, not nearly as robust as before.
Perhaps check out https://frame.work
If I remember correctly the shipping was really high when shipping to the EU. Might be different now, I’ll take a look again.
I live in a country where Framework doesn’t officially ship. I asked them if I could buy and pay for shipping out here in the sticks, as a special order.
Framework’s answer was a hard no.
I kept telling them “What part of TAKE MY MONEY I DON’T CARE ABOUT THE COST OF SHIPPING don’t you understand? I want to buy a laptop from you, I’m telling you to wave the warranty and I’ll pay for shipping no matter how expensive, and you refuse???”
But they refused.
So fuck Framework, sadly.
As for Linus Sebastian investing in their company, that one I didn’t know. That doesn’t make me all warm and fuzzy because, I don’t know why, Linus is one of the most phenomenally irritating Youtuber in Youtubeland. I can’t stand listening to the man.
I know it’s totally subjective, he’s really pro in what he does and I have nothing against him, but it’s visceral: I can’t stand the sight of him. His investing in Framework makes me want a Framework laptop less - although I fully admit it’s not rational at all.
Sounds like you don’t know how international trade works. A company like Framework can’t ship to countries they don’t normally ship to not because of cost but because of taxes, embargoes, laws, tariffs, and more. It isn’t just about cost, it is about complying with laws. The countries they ship to they already know the laws. Any new county has to go through a long and painful process of learning local laws to make sure you are in compliance.
I’m privileged as an American to get almost everything I want, I get that, but you can’t blame a company for choosing to spend its legal resources where they are most impactful.
Bullshit. I asked them to take my payment and throw a laptop in the mail like some ordinary shmuck I would have bought a laptop privately from. I live in a Scandinavian country, not in Mumbo-Jumbo land. The parcel will arrive. I’ll take care of import duties and everything: all they have to do is package the laptop, put a sticker with my address on it, drive to the post office and forget about it. I even offered to pay them extra for the aggravation. They refused.
It’s not about the money, it’s about the legal process
If you want one that badly buy a new unopened one on eBay
One could use https://mailboxde.com. I don’t have personal experience with them, but they seem to insure packages up to 1000EUR.
I think I’ll give this option a shot once I manage to offload a few existing computers…
edit Well, perhaps not. Mailboxde says that they support shipping only inside EU.