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Purism's laptop seems to get good battery life at a light weight, comparable to MBP in build quality (though also in price). > I also really like free and open
by bo1024 9y ago
Purism's laptop seems to get good battery life at a light weight, comparable to MBP in build quality (though also in price).
> I also really like free and open source
Then Purism might be worth it for you.
- _ix 9y agoCan you say anything else about your experience with the purism laptops? I just priced one out, and I'm prepared to put down the cash for my daily driver, but what kind of battery life are you getting out of it? I'm looking at the 13". Which one do you have?
- bo1024 9y ago13" (what they call version 2 or v2) but not a ton of hours on it yet. When concerned with battery, my main use case is low brightness with text editing, reading, and/or web browsing. I think I can expect at least 6-8 hours of this activity, and maybe 4-5 hours of video watching on medium brightness. But not enough experience to confidently state these numbers. A big question is if you'll want to stick with PureOS or install a different distro. So far I've given PureOS a shot, for fun and to see how I like it, and I'm used to Debian-based so it's okay although feels a bit dumbed down. What I don't know, is whether it's easy and likely-successful to install other distros -- it may be, I just haven't done research on that yet.
- _ix 9y agoI'm comfortable with Debian variants, but most of my work is in enterprise linux, and I might be nice to run something closer on my laptop... but with containers and VMs, maybe it doesn't really matter anymore. I'll do some more soul searching because this is a serious contender for my dollars.
- bo1024 9y agoHope you go for it!