New Laptop

So quick news, because I got my new laptop this week from Frame.Work and I’m really happy with it. So it’s the time for me to make a quick review for the laptop.

Assembling:

I took the DIY version, so the laptop comes with RAM and SSD in their separate box and it’s up to you to install the both in you laptop.

I never saw a laptop so easy to open, few screws, they stays attached to the back of the laptop so you don’t loose them,that’s a super cool feature.

Not much to say for the inside, it’s a laptop, with a few spare screws, each piece got their QRCode (didn’t check here the instructions, cause that’s not my first laptop) but I was really impressed on how easy it was to open.

First Boot:

I wanted this laptop because it was know to work well with Ubuntu (not my favorite linux but will do) and that’s an understatement: I boot on my USB drive, clicked install, and voilà.

All devices are running, no WiFi driver to install, the finger print reader works, every thing works. If you ever installed Linux on a laptop you know that this is an achievement on its own.

Day to day use:

Here again, that’s a big whao: The battery life is really impressive, I usually run on low consumption power mode, bluetooth is off, wifi on with my VPN active. The compute have a solid 6+ hours autonomy, with using PyCharm and sharing the 4G of my phone using wired sharing.

and when I say 6+ hours, I mean, after 6h I’m still at 40+% but it’s when I stop. With my usage I could easily keep the same battery cycle for 2 days.

I really enjoy the keyboard, and for the moment the touchpad keep reading my finger, but most of the time I plug a mouse or a trackball because I don’t like using touchpad.

Bonus: I got an HP Thunderbolt dock, I only had to plug the laptop to it, it started charging and all screens were working just like that.

Cons:

The laptop had very few I/O: 4 ports, used for modules (USB 3 A/C, DisplayPort, HDMI) their is no options for any ethernet ports.

I would appreciate an ethernet cable (mostly because the dock is used by multiple computer that needs to be on different networks and mac restricted).

The module are a bit tight to remove, and the screen is a bit too reflective.

But none of those issues are deal breaking.