Introducing the Librem 11

tl;dr There are no HKS and the back is glued.

From community/general:

Currently, the battery will give around 3 hours of browsing usage and 24h in suspend. Just like with the phone, battery life is a work in progress and Jonathon Hall is optimistic that this can be improved.


The HKS was my main question. I would guess th ebattery is user servicable,

In this first iteration, we focused more on the components inside than on the chassis itself, which is why there are those logos in the back. Therefore, there are no HKS and the back is not really removable. It is glued so you can remove it but may damage it. Things become serviceable inside when the back is removed. The RAM is soldered but the drive is an NVMe card that can be replaced. Not fully sure about the battery, but I think it is removable too.

Some solutions may come up to redo a Librem 11 back with a 3D printer

Thanks for the info! What material is the back made out of currently?

I don’t have a unit with me right now but I believe it is made of soft plastic. So if you peal it off it may keep a curly shape


It is disappointing but the tablet looks pretty good specs-wise. I will probably get this after seeing people’s impressions of it when they get theirs. I still want to vote with my wallet because I think a Linux tablet is good and after seeing other attempts like the JingPad fail, I’m hoping this one doesn’t so that they can iterate on it.

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