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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 Sys

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?

tabasko 6y ago
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-phoronix-articles/1195427-tuxedo-computers-launches-a-linux-laptop-with-ryzen-7-4800h-ryzen-5-4600h/page2 https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoron... [2] https://www.reddit.com/r/AMDLaptops/comments/hunyv6/my_mechrevo_code01_tongfang_pf5nu1g_review/ https://www.reddit.com/r/AMDLaptops/comments/hunyv6/my_mechr... [3] https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/Linux-Hardware/Linux-Notebooks/15-16-inch/TUXEDO-Book-Pulse-15-Gen1.tuxedo#!#h4-configurator https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/Linux-Hardware/Linux-Note...
- solidninja 6y ago
  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 https://bestware.com/en/schenker-via-15-pro.html
- baybal2 6y ago
  At the moment, Qinghua Tongfang is pretty much the only major OEM using AMD.
oDahjie0 6y ago
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.

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?

tabasko 6y ago

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-phoronix-articles/1195427-tuxedo-computers-launches-a-linux-laptop-with-ryzen-7-4800h-ryzen-5-4600h/page2 https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoron... [2] https://www.reddit.com/r/AMDLaptops/comments/hunyv6/my_mechrevo_code01_tongfang_pf5nu1g_review/ https://www.reddit.com/r/AMDLaptops/comments/hunyv6/my_mechr... [3] https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/Linux-Hardware/Linux-Notebooks/15-16-inch/TUXEDO-Book-Pulse-15-Gen1.tuxedo#!#h4-configurator https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/Linux-Hardware/Linux-Note...

solidninja 6y ago
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 https://bestware.com/en/schenker-via-15-pro.html
baybal2 6y ago
At the moment, Qinghua Tongfang is pretty much the only major OEM using AMD.

oDahjie0 6y ago

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.