First off, the intro video is very clearly comparing the laptop's thickness to proprietary, freedom-denying candies with trademarks on them. The comparison should be to libre candies that don't deny users freedom.<p>Second... I once came into possession of a bottle of vegan Worcestershire sauce. Well, I love Worcestershire sauce, and I was curious. So I did a side-by-side taste test. And, I learned two things very quickly:<p>1) The vegan Worcestershire sauce was horrible.
2) It also was in no way reminiscent of Worcestershire sauce. The only way it could be mistaken for Worcestershire sauce is if you'd been a vegan for so long you forgot what Worcestershire sauce was supposed to taste like.<p>That's what this article reminds me of. This laptop is a "Macbook Killer" if you've never actually used a MacBook before. (And I say this as someone who has never bought a Mac.)
With modern 13 and 14 inch laptops, bezels really matter.<p>The point of these is to be portable, smaller bezels lead to a lot more portable laptop. It is the reason I'd pass on this laptop.<p>We do need a decent macbook-like linux laptop. One that has a solid chassis, looks good, is portable and has a decent keyboard. Currently. the dell XPS line is probably the closest match. Otherwise, lenovo thinkpads, though lenovo does not have the best track record.<p>Personally I chose a lenovo because I got a good deal, ad the keyboard is quite good. But more choice would've been great.
This article is nonsense, the author says the 4K laptop weighs "under a pound" and then admits in the comments that he doesn't actually know the weight.<p>SPAM?
There seems to be lots of news in Linux laptops. Purism has its Coreboot project done: <a href="https://puri.sm/posts/librem-13-coreboot-report-february-25th-2017/" rel="nofollow">https://puri.sm/posts/librem-13-coreboot-report-february-25t...</a> or see HN discussion: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13768945" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13768945</a>. Dell has a 13" XPS Linux laptop: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/01/dells-latest-xps-13-de-still-delivers-linux-now-embraces-svelte-hardware/" rel="nofollow">http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/01/dells-latest-xps-13-d...</a>. And System76 looks like it's starting to make competitive hardware.
Unless they have a store in every major city where I can walk in, say "my laptop is broken" and walk out with the issue resolved, or a firm plan to have it resolved, then no, it is not a macbook killer.
Not yet released product destroys product available for purchase. Er, <i>potentially</i> destroys.<p>I expect the rate of technological—no, <i>human</i>—progress to pick up appreciably once everyone breaks free of the ramshackle MacBook Pro's 16GB barbed-wire garden. Praise RMS!