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Framework Laptop

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Highly configurable

Top Con

New company

The company still has to be around to get replacement parts. See More

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Windows pre-installed option

If you want Windows you can buy the license during checkout and it will come pre-installed. This makes for a larger customer base to keep the company sustainable, and means you don't have to pay for a license to a product you won't use. See More

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DIY edition for fun, saving money

The DIY edition means you add some components yourself and is saves you several hundred dollars. See More

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Instructions for multiple linux distros

see the Support Forum See More

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Marketplace for spare parts

You can get additional or replacement parts easily. See More

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Right-to-Repair is a first class citizen

Started from a right-to-repair philosophy. This has also helped with resiliency against global supply chain issues. See More

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Librem 15

Top Pro

Optional physical kill switches for microphone/camera and wireless/bluetooth

Top Con

It's quite expensive

You'll be paying a higher price for Purism's commitment to secure, privacy, and freedom respecting electronics. See More

Top Pro

Built with security in mind starting from each chip placed onto the motherboard

Top Con

Wifi is weak

Any other laptop or smartphone will have better signal than the Librem 15. Having a strong signal is very rare (you need to be in the same room within 10m of the router), it is still working but a Ethernet port as back-up would have been very much appreciated. This is probably due to the FOSS constraint for the hardware. See More

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Good connectivity

3 USB 3.0 (one being type C) and 2 USB 2.0 with the HDMI feels very nice to have on such a lightweight laptop. Sadly no Ethernet port, otherwise it would have been perfect. See More

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Speakers are bad

The sound feels really wrong, the trebles are way too high and there is no bass. See More

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Good keyboard

Keyboards are usually bad on laptops, companies reusing small version ones on bigger size laptop with big paddings. Purism managed a good quality and use every bit of space to get a keyboard that feels good to use. See More

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Touchpad not centered

Touchpad is not centered due to addition of little used numeric keypad keys on the right. See More

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Runs privacy focused software

Librem runs PureOS, a privacy focused operating system, and runs software that respects your rights. See More

Specs

Weight:1.8kg

Dimensions:375×244×22mm

CPU:Core i7 7500U

Memory:Up to 32GB, DDR4 at 2133 MHz

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