TUXEDO are flexing their hardware chops here with the InfinityFlex, a fully foldable Linux laptop so you can use it wherever and however you want. No that's not drool on my top, honest.
With the ability to fold the screen right down on top of the unit, you can use it as a standard laptop or more like a tablet. Since it has a pressure-sensitive touch display, pairing it up with a pen you can use it for all sorts of artwork projects too. Pretty light as well at only 1.5KG.
TUXEDO put some fun work into this one by the sounds of it. They said "soon as the device is used in monitor or tablet mode, the keyboard and touchpad are automatically deactivated to prevent incorrect entries, the screen content is rotated according to the chassis orientation and TUXEDO OS also adapts its UI to touch operation".
Specifications:
- 14-inch IPS Touch Display, 1920 x 1200, sRGB color gamut: 100 %, Brightness: 400 nits.
- Intel Wi-Fi 6E AX211, Bluetooth 5.3.
- 55 Wh battery.
- Intel Core i5-1335U, Intel Iris Xe Graphics.
- DDR4-3200 MHz SO-DIMM, 16GB on the base model.
- 500 GB Samsung 980 (NVMe PCIe 3.0).
Looks and sounds like a real nice machine.
See more on the TUXEDO store. Available for pre-order with shipping after September 16th. The pen is sold separately.
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dziadulewicz Aug 9
Foldable but not affordable: 5 hours battery life promised for "light web browsing" in this price 
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I do wish TUXEDO would expand on their AMD segment, especially when it comes to GPUs.
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The price doesn't surprise me for this kind of laptop. It's not really useful for someone like me, but I can really see some professionals using it as a daily driver. Being able to use a Wacom stylus to draw can be really useful on some field jobs (updating plans, drawing sketches for a customer...)
And the option to have a 4G module is the cherry on top for field workers, no need to use your phone battery!
And the option to have a 4G module is the cherry on top for field workers, no need to use your phone battery!
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After trying out a tablet with Linux (GNOME and Plasma) I have to say they all need some work but mostly with the OSK. ChromeOS has the best keyboard since it can also be split and floating which is great for using the system. I want to see more products like this with Linux but we really need to address these issues.
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Why does Tuxedo choose for an Intel CPU?
Isnt AMD way more energie efficiënt and better integrated graphics and longer batery life?
And the hardware getting less hot?
Beside that this looks like an very interesting, but expansive device.
Isnt AMD way more energie efficiënt and better integrated graphics and longer batery life?
And the hardware getting less hot?
Beside that this looks like an very interesting, but expansive device.
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mr-victory Aug 9
Is it possible to make calls with the 4G module on this?
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Why oh why go they for an (already rather old) Intel APU when the AMD competitors are better in pretty much every aspect? And why DDR4?
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Last edited by Tuxee on 9 August 2024 at 4:27 pm UTC
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After trying out a tablet with Linux (GNOME and Plasma) I have to say they all need some work but mostly with the OSK. ChromeOS has the best keyboard since it can also be split and floating which is great for using the system. I want to see more products like this with Linux but we really need to address these issues.Mind you, with something like this I don't think you'd use the screen keyboard much. It has a real one, if you're going to be typing you just fold it the other way.
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I had a Yoga foldable laptop once upon a time, long ago. Seemed like a wonderful idea on paper and in concept. In real life it was HORRIBLE. I HATED every minute of it. Actually wound up selling it used after less than a year and going back to a "normal" laptop. These kinds of laptops might be nice for the extreme graphic artist or whatever, but I guarantee for 99% of the market, there's no reason for this.
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Some Yoga models had a bad screen hinge system which made it not stay in place when used as a normal laptop... and most of them had horrible cpu and gpu power, because they were from before the AMD Ryzen tier of efficiency...
what else made it horrible back then that isn't better/solved now?
what else made it horrible back then that isn't better/solved now?
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I had a Yoga foldable laptop once upon a time, long ago. Seemed like a wonderful idea on paper and in concept. In real life it was HORRIBLE. I HATED every minute of it. Actually wound up selling it used after less than a year and going back to a "normal" laptop. These kinds of laptops might be nice for the extreme graphic artist or whatever, but I guarantee for 99% of the market, there's no reason for this.
Not to invalidate your experience at all - but my experience was rather pleasant.
About 7 years ago I joked to a colleague that I would get a foldable laptop and use Linux on it (poor touch-screen UX). As that idea settled in my mind, I realized it was less crazy than I thought. I tried it out with a 12-inch used Dell 5289 ultrabook. It was my first touch-screen pc and even though I'm a heavy keyboard user, I found touching the screen very rapid and intuitive (even though KDE and X11 didn't work great with it - often needed to tap ("click") twice). I enjoyed the graphics tablet pen a lot for drawing. Although I never got around to setting up proper workflows for taking notes or sketches - only full-on drawing. Even though I liked this a lot, I used the pen very rarely. So I can definitely understand it not being worth the money for most people. I also didn't set up a right-click for the touch-screen. Foldability was nice for cramped spaces like train or plane trips. Somehow it still feels effective and just cool to me ca. 8 years later. Recently I've started using that laptop way less due to having gotten used to a bigger screen and way superior performance on bigger pc-s. Crazy to think this was my main gaming pc once - for Minecraft, War Thunder, and Paradox grand strategy games (with potato graphics mods). But I do still see a place for something like that in my life. Although a tablet would have superior UI/UX for the touch screen - I prefer a familiar software setup and capabilities.
I'm secretly hoping that Framework will give us touch-screen with a pressure-sensitive pen support. I would forgive a bigger weight, smaller batter, and more performance. 😁
Last edited by chr on 9 August 2024 at 11:37 pm UTC
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Some Yoga models had a bad screen hinge system which made it not stay in place when used as a normal laptop... and most of them had horrible cpu and gpu power, because they were from before the AMD Ryzen tier of efficiency...
what else made it horrible back then that isn't better/solved now?
pretty much all of that:
1- hinge - terrible. Would creak and make weird noises, not stay where I wanted it to, hinges would get stuck in certain positions and refuse to close properly, which led to ....
2- lots of power problems. sometimes (often) the laptop wouldn't sleep properly? So for instance I'd go to bed with it near full power, shut the lid, wake up the next morning expecting to do work (I was at a location working on a show) and it was dead with zero battery for no reason.
3- AGONIZINGLY HORRIFYING performance. I mean ........... I would try to open spotify to put some music on in the background while I worked, and the entire laptop would just grind to a halt. Forced hard reboot would fix it but now I'd have 50% battery for no reason and now need to go find a plug omg
4- In my free time while deployed on work assignments I like to do some casual gaming. IMPOSSIBLE. The performance of this machine was worse somehow than the tablet I lugged around from MANY years prior. I wound up just 100% totally giving up on any idea of gaming on this yoga laptop, which was quite upsetting since that was one of the main ways I decompressed at the end of a stressful day.
I know I am probably making this seem worse than it was, but I have SUCH A HORRIBLE memory of that Yoga laptop, it was literally one of the worst technology experiences I have ever had.
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dziadulewicz Aug 10
The price doesn't surprise me for this kind of laptop. It's not really useful for someone like me, but I can really see some professionals using it as a daily driver. Being able to use a Wacom stylus to draw can be really useful on some field jobs (updating plans, drawing sketches for a customer...)
And the option to have a 4G module is the cherry on top for field workers, no need to use your phone battery!
To use this as a professional for field work with 5 hour battery (with light web browsing)? A field worker with this one would need extra battery packs in a backpack with em if doing anything other than what they call light browsing then. Or what do you mean or what am i missing
How is it even possible that we're soon in '25 and our devices battery lives are nothing sort of joke and apparently we fly gadgets to other planets like Mars.
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Want a fold-able laptop. I would most likely bit the bullet and pay the Windows tax for Asus Zenbook 14 Flip OLED with AMD Ryzen APU.
Still hope non-Windows OEM comes out with a decent AMD fold-able. Intel is in my do not buy category when they pushed out 13 & 14 GEN CPU they knew where bad just to go to market with a product. They are the Boeing of the computing industry. If it's Intel I ain't buying.
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Still hope non-Windows OEM comes out with a decent AMD fold-able. Intel is in my do not buy category when they pushed out 13 & 14 GEN CPU they knew where bad just to go to market with a product. They are the Boeing of the computing industry. If it's Intel I ain't buying.
Last edited by yndoendo on 10 August 2024 at 2:59 pm UTC
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How is it even possible that we're soon in '25 and our devices battery lives are nothing sort of joke and apparently we fly gadgets to other planets like Mars.
That's only because it's running intel, which is by far the worst chip you can get for any mobile device. If you go to Arm architecture, you can go forever. My m1 mac was like magic when I first got it, it can go for 3 or 4 days on battery alone while doing lots of video work.
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slaapliedje Aug 11
Is it possible to make calls with the 4G module on this?Likely not, there are a lot of things for carriers that they require a specific module. Like I have an iPad with 5G in it, but it's data only.
I bought a Lenovo Yoga 9i that is similar to this thing, and it's awesome. Pretty sure the battery life is better as well. The only thing in it that doesn't work with Linux is the fingerprint reader. Unfortunately for me, the main reason I bought it was to use Dungeondraft, which I recently found out is the biggest pig on memory I've ever seen... with all the assets loaded, it takes about 30gb of ram... I actually upgraded my desktop to 128gb of ram, just so I could run it without it freezing my system!
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After trying out a tablet with Linux (GNOME and Plasma) I have to say they all need some work but mostly with the OSK. ChromeOS has the best keyboard since it can also be split and floating which is great for using the system. I want to see more products like this with Linux but we really need to address these issues.Mind you, with something like this I don't think you'd use the screen keyboard much. It has a real one, if you're going to be typing you just fold it the other way.
With it folded or in tent mode how would you use the keyboard?
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I'm saying you wouldn't type in those modes--the whole point of having it also as a laptop is that when you want to type, you'd use it as a laptop not a tablet.After trying out a tablet with Linux (GNOME and Plasma) I have to say they all need some work but mostly with the OSK. ChromeOS has the best keyboard since it can also be split and floating which is great for using the system. I want to see more products like this with Linux but we really need to address these issues.Mind you, with something like this I don't think you'd use the screen keyboard much. It has a real one, if you're going to be typing you just fold it the other way.
With it folded or in tent mode how would you use the keyboard?
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slaapliedje Aug 13
The really sad thing is that the onscreen keyboard for the Nokia N9 is open source and was supposed to be part of the Gnome project... but for whatever reason they ditched that and implemented a different one, which is pretty crappy. https://maliit.github.io/I'm saying you wouldn't type in those modes--the whole point of having it also as a laptop is that when you want to type, you'd use it as a laptop not a tablet.After trying out a tablet with Linux (GNOME and Plasma) I have to say they all need some work but mostly with the OSK. ChromeOS has the best keyboard since it can also be split and floating which is great for using the system. I want to see more products like this with Linux but we really need to address these issues.Mind you, with something like this I don't think you'd use the screen keyboard much. It has a real one, if you're going to be typing you just fold it the other way.
With it folded or in tent mode how would you use the keyboard?
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Want a fold-able laptop. I would most likely bit the bullet and pay the Windows tax for Asus Zenbook 14 Flip OLED with AMD Ryzen APU.If you're in the EU, you should be able to get a refund for that Windows tax, if they don't directly offer it without an OS.
Still hope non-Windows OEM comes out with a decent AMD fold-able. Intel is in my do not buy category when they pushed out 13 & 14 GEN CPU they knew where bad just to go to market with a product. They are the Boeing of the computing industry. If it's Intel I ain't buying.
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