4 ms·
I tried for years to get along with Purism but I've had three laptops with poor QC come from them. Broken hinges, unreliable touchpads, bad chargers. Never agai
by emptysongglass 5y ago
I tried for years to get along with Purism but I've had three laptops with poor QC come from them. Broken hinges, unreliable touchpads, bad chargers. Never again.
- fsflover 5y agoI'm quite happy with my Librem 15, no problems. AFAIK they fixed their hinge in the latest model. Which problems did you have with the chargers? Never heard about that on their forums.
- emptysongglass 5y agoMy charger just stopped working one day on the first 13 v2. The touchpad would also just not accept input sometimes. Also, and this one I had forgotten: sometimes it would just experience sudden power loss. Returning the damn thing for a warranty repair was a nightmare. Finally they just shipped me a new 13 v3 which had a broken hinge. You may just be lucky. The failure rates of Librems are well documented across their forums, subreddit and YouTube. I strongly urge anyone not to buy one, including the new 14, which has extensive reports of keyboard input failure, coil whine, terrible audio and generally poor fit and finish.
- fsflover 5y agoLibrems 13 were indeed known to have the hinge problem, not so much Librems 15. Another commenter says Librem 14 is great: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28887681 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28887681
- emptysongglass 5y agoHere's just one of the few reviews lambasting the new 14: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRBysG9ap3E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRBysG9ap3E