Slimbook have announced a fresh powerful AMD Ryzen powered ultrabook, the EVO, and it looks like a wonderful device. If you're after a new laptop from a company with top Linux support, this should be on your radar.
Coming in a €999 with the €100 discount for pre-orders, it's due to arrive in December. So what do you get for that price? Quite a lot actually and they expect it to end up as the "best-selling computer in our history".
Main specifications:
- CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS 8 cores 16 threads, up to 5.1GHz.
- Graphics: AMD Radeon 780M.
- Display: 14” WQXGA 3K (2880x1800) 16:10 sRGB 100% sRGB refresh 125 Hz 400 nits.
- Ports: 2x USB-C 3.2 Gen2 + DP 1.4 + PD 100W.
- Ports: 1x USB-A 3.2 Gen2 + 2x USB-A 3.2 Gen1.
- Keyboard: backlit.
- Material: aluminum.
- Connectivity: Wifi 6E, Bluetooth 5.2.
- RAM memory: up to 96GB at 5600 MHz DDR5 (16GB DDR5 on base model).
- Disks: 2x SSD NVMe PCIe 4.0 M.2 up to 8TB (500GB NVMe on base model).
This unit is a replacement for their previous flagship model, the ProX, and it comes with many other improvements. Fans of security and privacy will be pleased to know it has a physical webcam lock, there's now a Gigbit ethernet port, a SD / SDHC / SDXC card reader, Nahimic 2412 speakers they say "provide less muffled sound and less distortion during over-amplification compared to their predecessors" and dual high-performance fans that are "designed for gaming laptops but optimized for quiet operation in a slim profile".
You can order it with your choice of Linux including Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Ubuntu MATE, KDE neon, Debian, Linux Mint, Fedora, Manjaro and more. Windows is also an option but bumps up the price by at least €170.
Overall it really does sound great.
See more in their announcement.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Maxed config is 2249€! MBP M3 with 1/3rd of the memory is 1k € more…
Would love to see it with 16" display
Last edited by _wojtek on 14 October 2024 at 10:44 am UTC
dziadulewicz Oct 14
I'd wish there were more companies like Framework that actually designs their own laptops.
dziadulewicz Oct 14
Slimbook is still just an ODM reseller
WHich makes the price even more laughable if true. TUXEDO on the same page i assume. Are they greedy or what? OR this laptop business is currently not sustainable. I hear PC's sell less and less.
Not to rain on anyone's parade, but Slimbook is still just an ODM reseller right? Do anyone know what make this is? Please correct me if I'm wrong.
I'd wish there were more companies like Framework that actually designs their own laptops.
Framework doesn't just design laptops.
It designs components.
Asus designs laptops(POWER BUTTON IN THE MIDDLE).
Laptop design is plugging existing components together in new and interesting ways. They're basically prebuild pc companies for laptops.
Thanks to chip unification(Lunar Lake, M1, integrated graphics, etc.) innovation is really hard hard in this space.
As such you will find that the most innovative laptop designers are often also component designers: framework, mnt, etc.
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