In the market for a new light laptop? Slimbook teamed up with the Fedora crew to bring out the new Fedora Slimbook Ultrabook.
The Slimbook team say it is optimized to give a smooth out-of-the-box experience. Fully tested with a standard Fedora Workstation install, with a Fedora logo on the back of the lid and on the "super key" so no silly Windows logo. When you buy the Fedora Slimbook Ultrabook, 3% of the revenue goes directly back to the GNOME Foundation, so your purchase will help further development.
Matthew Miller, Fedora Project Leader, Manager and Distinguished Engineer, Red Hat "Installing Linux distributions can be a daunting task and can stand in the way of individuals adopting open source software. The collaboration between Fedora Project and Slimbook has removed this hurdle by providing users with hardware featuring pre-installed Fedora software. Red Hat is excited to see open source communities and hardware vendors working together to make open source software more accessible."
Specifications:
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Model |
Fedora Slimbook 16" |
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CPU |
Intel® Core™ i7-12700H up to 4,70 GHz |
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Graphics adapter |
NVIDIA RTX 3050Ti 4GB DDR6 2560 CUDA Cores |
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Display |
16 Inches 90 Hz LTPS Antiglare |
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Keyboard |
ISO keyboard (with TUX key) Available in most languages |
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Touchpad |
«Infinity touchpad» sized at 13 x 8 cm with hidden buttons to maximize surface area Built-in palm rejection technology while typing, multi-touch and gesture capable. |
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RAM |
2 non-soldered DDR4 slots 3200 Mhz |
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Storage |
Up to 2 SSD M.2 NVMe drives. Available sizes: 500GB, 1TB, 2TB (up to 4TB total) |
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Webcam |
1080p Full-HD webcam with stereo microphone |
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USB |
2 x USB-A 3.2 Gen1 |
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Video outputs |
1x HDMI 2.0 |
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OS |
Fedora Workstation |
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Build materials |
Magnesium & aluminum alloy |
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Wireless LAN |
Wifi 6 compliant adapter |
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Bluetooth |
Bluetooth 5.2 |
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Audio |
2 Watt stereo speakers |
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Weight |
1.5~ Kg |
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Size |
355 x 245 x 20mm |
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Battery |
82 Wh |
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Charger |
Automatic voltage and smart fast charge |
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Warranty |
3 years warranty in Spain, 2 years in Europe, 1 year outside Europe (6 months on batteries) |
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Box contents |
1 Laptop, 1 Charger. |
Available for €1,799.
Check out the product page here.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Nice, but would be much better with an AMD graphics.
exactly, fedora is wayland default, i mean, if in their test nvidia is working ok so good, but amd still better
It's like RGB leds, great for marketing, annoying in practice.
slaapliedje Oct 12, 2023
I came to the conclusion a while ago that if I'm ever in the need for a new laptop (I have a few for different purposes already that should last me a few years), I'm totally getting a Framework one. They support Linux builds, and the engineering on them means I won't just have one sitting around collecting dust when I can basically infinitely upgrade it...
I'm in Batch 1 for FW 16. I'll consider doing a writeup for it when I get it. Probably only in 2 months.
My kind of writeup will probably be things like... does it suspend, have weird errors, other power management issues, etc...
Because my current notebook, whilst good ito performance and ergonomics, completely sucks when it comes to things like power management fails, random crashes, suspend-resume lottery, tons of repeating and random kernel errors in dmesg, lack of firmware updates (even for windows, it's a shit show there too).
Never getting an MSI ever again.
slaapliedje Oct 12, 2023
Nice! Yeah I swore off MSI when I had a motherboard that would randomly shit on the USB. Only way to get it working again that I could find was to pull the CMOS battery. It was like the firmware would get corrupted while it was on.I came to the conclusion a while ago that if I'm ever in the need for a new laptop (I have a few for different purposes already that should last me a few years), I'm totally getting a Framework one. They support Linux builds, and the engineering on them means I won't just have one sitting around collecting dust when I can basically infinitely upgrade it...
I'm in Batch 1 for FW 16. I'll consider doing a writeup for it when I get it. Probably only in 2 months.
My kind of writeup will probably be things like... does it suspend, have weird errors, other power management issues, etc...
Because my current notebook, whilst good ito performance and ergonomics, completely sucks when it comes to things like power management fails, random crashes, suspend-resume lottery, tons of repeating and random kernel errors in dmesg, lack of firmware updates (even for windows, it's a shit show there too).
Never getting an MSI ever again.
Funny thing is, it seems to me not a single manufacturer / operating system can figure out the power management... you have stupid things like the newer sleep states that allows network traffic, so that updates can be done while the computer is 'asleep'. The other day I booted up my Steam Deck and it said my macbook pro was ready to stream from... I hadn't used it in days!
I'm in Batch 1 for FW 16. I'll consider doing a writeup for it when I get it. Probably only in 2 months.I'd love to see that - I hope you do so.
My kind of writeup will probably be things like... does it suspend, have weird errors, other power management issues, etc...
slaapliedje Oct 31, 2023
No trackpoint and the keyboard looks awful. Also Nvidia on a Linux system is a hell I don't wish to revisit.Ha, I've never really had issues with nvidia, with the exception of optimus stuff (which is it's own separate gnarly annoyance) and then started running into some specific software that was 'we're not going to fix this for nvidia, because reasons'. Thanks Red Hat. I swear since IBM bought them, they've been put up there on my list of 'screw you!' companies like Apple / Microsoft.
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