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It's happening: https://www.phoronix.com/news/HP-EliteBook-X-G2q-Linux https://www.phoronix.com/news/HP-EliteBook-X-G2q-Linux

• senectus1 3mo ago
  holy hell.. the price tags...!
  • geerlingguy 3mo ago
    $4,300-$6,000+, wow you're not wrong. And that's just 32 or 64 GB of RAM.
  • wmf 3mo ago
    Something has gone wrong at HP. They are also charging $7,000 for Strix Halo.
    • esseph 3mo ago
      HP is nuts HPE I've had very good luck with for HCI.
  • r_lee 3mo ago
    why on earth would anyone buy that shit if you can buy a macbook pro that literally looks and feels like art vs. a plastic windows laptop? it used to be that Apple was the pricier option but I guess not anymore
    • aacid 3mo ago
      someone who doesn't want apple experience? I really don't need "art" computer if I'm not able to do what I want on it.
    • alessandroberna 3mo ago
      Of course a 1000$+ windows laptop is going to look and feel like a low end 300$ one /s
    • __patchbit__ 3mo ago
      macos desktop aesthetics have regressed, they managed to screw the rounded corners and the colors are too much macbook m series processor laptops have the camera notch and frankenturd look and feel thinkpads feel better and the hinge opens all the way
    • abc42 3mo ago
      The ability to run Linux properly would be worth about a $1000, if it was reality. But it isn't, so...
    • nickserv 3mo ago
      The problem with MacBook is that they have a shit OS...
  • modeless 3mo ago
    That's crazy, $4,586 for 32 GB RAM? Asus is selling an X2 Elite Extreme laptop with 48 GB RAM for $1,699.99 and it's in stock at Best Buy today. What is HP thinking?
    • red_admiral 3mo ago
      At some point, RAM arbitrage will be profitable at small scale: buy a complete PC, rip the RAM out, dump the rest and resell online.
• diabllicseagull 3mo ago
  From the June 4th article: "These patches are a result of a collaboration between a couple of Qualcomm engineers taking part in an internal sprint and were created over 3 days." it's not giving me any warm and fuzzy.
  • aseipp 3mo ago
    They've been upstreaming drivers for the X2 platform for months at this point, since at least late 2025 (just search "glymur" or "kaanapali" on LKML). The patch referenced in the Phoronix article is just a device tree file. That is the easiest part of the whole thing. As usual he's just farming every random LKML patch he can for clicks.
    • wmf 3mo ago
      The open source world has a habit of leaving the easiest part of the whole thing unfinished for years or decades, so I salute this patch and I salute Phoronix for calling attention to it.
      • aseipp 3mo ago
        Point well taken.
• abc42 3mo ago
  I used to believe, but now it seems to me that AMD and Intel will match Snapdragon's efficiency on x86 before that stuff is stable.