**Christopher Lemmer Webber** @cwebber · 2018-04-09T22:49:14Z

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Okay, I bought the laptops from Purism. I sure hope this works out!

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**Craig Maloney ☕ ✅** @craigmaloney · Apr 09, 2018, 22:53

**Craig Maloney ☕ ✅** @craigmaloney · Apr 09, 2018, 22:53

@cwebber New avatar, new laptop, new house, new state?

WHO ARE YOU ANYMORE?!?

😁

**Ben Waters** @BenWaters@tenforward.social · Apr 09, 2018, 22:55

**Ben Waters** @BenWaters@tenforward.social · Apr 09, 2018, 22:55

@cwebber
Post what you think once you've used it a bit

**Tom Elliott** @paregorios@social.coop · Apr 09, 2018, 22:57

**Tom Elliott** @paregorios@social.coop · Apr 09, 2018, 22:57

@cwebber if you can possibly spare the time, please post a review when you get downstream; I'm very interested in these and would appreciate your first-hand report.

**Sean Tilley** @deadsuperhero@social.nasqueron.org · Apr 09, 2018, 22:57

**Sean Tilley** @deadsuperhero@social.nasqueron.org · Apr 09, 2018, 22:57

@cwebber Fuuuuck yeeeeah!

**Decoy** @decoy@niu.moe · Apr 09, 2018, 23:07

**Decoy** @decoy@niu.moe · Apr 09, 2018, 23:07

@cwebber nice, got mine about a month ago. imho overpriced mediocre hardware, but excited about the future, the company is growing which means we might reach a point of Apple class libre computers

**Christopher Lemmer Webber** @cwebber · Apr 09, 2018, 23:10

**Christopher Lemmer Webber** @cwebber · Apr 09, 2018, 23:10

@decoy yeah I'm well aware that it's expensive given the build quality... but each iteration seems like it's better, and they do support coreboot and user-controlled TPM and blobless computers... all heading in the right direction.

**maiki** @maiki@mastodon.sdf.org · Apr 10, 2018, 11:38

**maiki** @maiki@mastodon.sdf.org · Apr 10, 2018, 11:38

@cwebber Me too!

**Mike Gerwitz** @mikegerwitz@social.mikegerwitz.com · Apr 11, 2018, 01:22

**Mike Gerwitz** @mikegerwitz@social.mikegerwitz.com · Apr 11, 2018, 01:22

@cwebber Oh, do let me know your experiences in agonizing detail! I talked to them for a good 20m or so at LP and was impressed by the details of some of their work. I was mainly talking to them about some security features.

I really would like a modern laptop. But getting rid of the X200 will be hard, in part for the same reason you mentioned: a dock. We have USB-C docks at work and I despise the thing. Hardware docks Just Work. But I haven't done any research on USB-C docks on GNU/Linux.

I also asked them if they have plans to add a TrackPoint device. Unfortunately, they said it'd take too much re-working of the hardware, so it's not something they'd do right now. :(

**Christopher Lemmer Webber** @cwebber · Apr 11, 2018, 01:45

**Christopher Lemmer Webber** @cwebber · Apr 11, 2018, 01:45

@mikegerwitz trackpoint inflames my rsi so I'm not too worried about that

but yeah re: USB-C... I guess we'll see when I get it... and the USB-C dock, for that matter.

Looks like some success though: https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/70l6be/usbc_dock_hub_for_x1_5th_gen_that_works_with_linux/ https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Linux-Discussion/USB-C-dock-amp-Linux/td-p/3678331 https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/70l6be/usbc_dock_hub_for_x1_5th_gen_that_works_with_linux/