New KDE Slimbook launched with Ryzan-4000 series processor

Re:New KDE Slimbook launched with Ryzan-4000 series processor by throwaway72220 on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @06:14AM (#23915529)

I have never heard of Slimbook and most of what I can find on Google is in Spanish. Are they any good? Do they design the laptops or are they rebranded like System76's Clevo made laptops?

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Re:New KDE Slimbook launched with Ryzan-4000 series processor by tabasko on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @06:50AM (#23915689)

Someone at Phoronix[1] forums suspected it to be made by TongFang. Seems to be same laptop which Tuxedo[3] is also selling.

[1] https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoron... [2] https://www.reddit.com/r/AMDLaptops/comments/hunyv6/my_mechr... [3] https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/Linux-Hardware/Linux-Note...

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Re:New KDE Slimbook launched with Ryzan-4000 series processor by solidninja on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @08:44AM (#23916323)

Also sold as the Schenker Via 15 Pro [1]. Wonder if it will also come with a 4K OLED display option (Tuxedo will also offer one on the configurator within a week).

[1] https://bestware.com/en/schenker-via-15-pro.html

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Re:New KDE Slimbook launched with Ryzan-4000 series processor by baybal2 on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @06:52AM (#23915702)

At the moment, Qinghua Tongfang is pretty much the only major OEM using AMD.

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Re:New KDE Slimbook launched with Ryzan-4000 series processor by oDahjie0 on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @07:29AM (#23915865)

I had a Slimbook 1.

I had some issues with it, most notably the touchpad was not recognized as such but as a regular mouse, so I could not use synaptic to disable the touchpad while I was typing on the keyboard, super annoying. Also, the keyboard layout was weird. If I understand correctly, it's a mac layout (I never had a mac, so it was surprising to me), and a few keys were mislabeled, although not very annoyingly (their shift label and normal label were reversed). But all in all, for a first iteration, it was a good machine.

After that one, I got a librem 13 v3, and it was terrible. Lot of issues, the one year and a half laptop is in the same state a five year old laptop would be, with screws going through the case and the laptop sometimes just powering off by itself (without it being ACPI/heat related). I'm nostalgic of my slimbook.

EDIT: after all of that, I decided from now on to buy refurbished laptops checking on IFixIt which is the most repairable and upgrade it/change battery.

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