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I've heard a lot of great things about them and I love their mission statement, but I've also heard a lot of bad things about availability, shipping, and spotty

I've heard a lot of great things about them and I love their mission statement, but I've also heard a lot of bad things about availability, shipping, and spotty customer service (but again, occasionally great customer service). I'm not sure what to think and whether to get my next laptop from them. It also makes me nervous that they're putting resources into phones when they obviously haven't solved all the issues with non-free components of laptops. It gives me Firefox OS and mobile Ubuntu vibes.

cyphar 9y ago
> It also makes me nervous that they're putting resources into phones when they obviously haven't solved all the issues with non-free components of laptops. By not using x86 (the board is going to use i.MX8), they remove a whole series of issues that plague modern laptops (no ME, no EMC, etc). They have a very long run-down on why they chose i.MX8, and the freedom status of the components[1]. [1]: https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-roadmap-to-imx8/ https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-roadmap-to-imx8/