Is the Librem 16 cancelled?

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Hi, need a new laptop and was waiting to see what the Librem 16 offered. I saw the email from a while back saying the Librem 16 was expected this year. Has it been cancelled and I missed the news? If so, I’ll consider other options. Thank you

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No further news since that investment email, so I suspect it will appear in 2024. It will likely be the successor to the Librem 15.

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Best to ask Purism. support@puri.sm

If the release of the Librem 16 is some way off then they probably won’t be willing to comment but if it’s imminent, you might get an answer.

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The Librem 16 remains under active development.

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Great. Been in the market for a 16" for a couple months now, do you have any estimate JCS of when it may surface?

Any exciting specs to bring a secure laptop with more modern features, there are many but high quality screen (OLED) and DDR5 RAM and PCIe v5 and Ethernet 2.5G come to mind as a start :slight_smile:

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Yeah Librem 16 looks like CANCELED

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This is a grossly irresponsible post unless you have any kind of evidence to back it up.

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Because @jonathon.hall looks like not working for Purism. Coreboot release for 14 looks abandoned. I just guessing about.

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@jonathon.hall was last active on Discourse ten hours ago.

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It is not canceled. We have been keeping development largely under wraps until we’re extremely sure of the final specs and timeframe. We’ve learned in the past that we tend to be too optimistic for timeframes (which you can already see here since Q4 2024 is already upon us), and the community tends to treat these as deadlines rather than estimates.

I am working full time for Purism.

You are right that firmware releases have been behind. Due to some department transitions I have had to take on a number of interim responsibilities, which are also mostly things not very exciting to talk about in the forum. Due to those commitments I have not had enough time available to run through the complete test plans to qualify a firmware release, and I won’t make a release that is not fully tested for quality.

I’ll also mention again that I did a lot of work unblocking the PureOS infrastructure to enable @dos to continue working toward PureOS Crimson. (That link also only reports the work tracked since we moved to public milestones.) While I could have instead put that time toward the firmware releases that have not happened, PureOS Crimson will be a great improvement for our products and firmware is stable right now.

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Nice that you still working for Purism. :rocket:

Thanks :pray:

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