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Received mine about a week ago. It was there. At first I was also mad at purism for this before I received the Librem. However, it is what is. Purism is no Dell and in my opinion they made an awesome job with this notebook. Just look for other options. What is out there? Buy a Dell notebook? Wow you get max 32 GB Ram, a notebook without Pureboot (what a f*** nice feature) but with intel me and the rest fucked up firmware sh***.
Pardon my language
Furthermore Librem 14 style: Just unscrew 9 screws, open it up and install what you like. 64 GB of RAM. Thatâs awesome, esp. for hypervisors such as QubesOS (okay actually Xen is the hypervisor) -
About the fan noise. In the beginning it was loud. After updating coreboot it is way more quiet. Furthermore you can tweak yourself: Librem 14 fan noise?
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wait for the update: Librem 14 awesome - The best investment in years -
Regarding the electrical noise. I cannot here anything from mine. Iâve listened to the audio recording on the fa-noise-thread. I can understand the people, especially when they have pretty good hearing but for an ordinary mortal like me, I do not hear a thing with from my librem. Keep in mind that you are working on the notebook so fans will run from time to time.
Maybe I got used to my old thinkpad or it made me deaf. Man that has an electrical noise.
2+3. If you want the perfect notebook regarding fan-noise etc., you will need to buy a Aplle Mac M1. However, keep in mind that you can not really go more closed-source.
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The durability of the hinges seem to be having been a problem with the librem 13/15. I donât have one but, I think, I read it somewhere.
I dont know how it exactly looks from the inside but on the L14 you got one huge hinge. It looks very solid and feels very solid. If you apply the usual gently force, I think, it will not break until you have your second new laptop after the Librem (regarding Mooreâs Law). -
Purism was founded in 2014 (according to Wikipedia). They seem to be doing a pretty solid job at keeping afloat.
What do you mean with that? Do you mean supply parts or just that you do want the market to cool down and Pursim having everything in stock? The latter will still take some time I think.
Regarding suppy parts: What supply parts does someone need? If anything breaks just go to your nearest shop and buy it. If your motherboard or CPU breaks, it is too late anyhow. Probably no manufacture would replace one of it since they can usually only malfunction when the user did something colossally stupid.
Also let me refer you to above: Easy to open and to exchange parts. Just buy it and install it. -
I donât want to say 3000 Canadian Dollars are not a lot. I just want to say think about it. Think about where Purism comes from, where it has been (compare L13 to L14 what a leap) and where it is going.
You could wait for the Librem 14 v2 (probably 1 year or longer). I think it is going to be even better. However, I think when buying from Purism, there will always be little âhotfixesâ and âbugsâ unless privacy becomes fashionable in the near future and Purism the Dell of Privacy (what they, in my opinion, have earned).