KDE and Slimbook, a Spanish Linux laptop manufacturer, have announced the third iteration of the KDE Slimbook. The KDE Slimbook runs KDE Neon, and sports the latest and greatest AMD technology.
Inside the svelte body, you will find the AMD Ryzen 7 4800 H processor — another first, as currently no other manufacturer offers Linux laptops with Ryzen 4000 series CPUs, with 8 cores and 16 threads, up to 64 GBs of DDR4 RAM that runs at 3200 MHz, and three USB ports, a USB-C port, an HDMI socket, a RJ45 for wired network connections, as well as support for the new Wifi 6 standard.
The KDE Slimbook comes in two sizes: the 14-inch screen version weighs only 1.1 kg, and the 15.6-inch version weighs 1.5 kg. The screens themselves are Full HD IPS LED panels and cover 100% the sRGB range, making colors more accurate and life-like, something that designers and photographers will appreciate.
This is looking like a great offering, and the KDE team has put me in contact with Slimbook to see if I can receive a review unit. This would be a great alternative to the System76 Lemur Pro, which we reviewed a few weeks ago.
Wow, those are one hell of a machine offerings, extra great because they have stronger than intel graphics and no nvidia problematic cards.
I’m seriously considering them as my next machine.
Wowwww. This appears to be a candidate in the extremely rare breed of 15″ laptops with no numberpad and therefore a centered keyboard and trackpad.
Of course, it’s not a Thinkpad, so the feel of the keyboard will always be a big question mark.
It looks like a Clevo chassis, but I’m not aware of any 15 inchers from them? Can anyone confirm?
I find that these days, even cheap laptop keyboards are decent – the typing feel, at least. The things that made Thinkpad keyboard unusually good in the past were, IMO, the mechanism & the layout. The mechanism is nothing particularly special anymore, everyone & their is putting out scissor-switch keyboard these days. And as for the layout, Thinkpads lost that advantage when Lenovo ditched the “classic” layout with the T430 – around the time, IMO, they stopped making actual Thinkpads, and switched to making mediocre clones of Apple laptops.
StephenBeDoper,
For me, layout/key placement makes the difference between quick typing & navigation and hunting & pecking for keys. When I’m buying, I rule out hundreds of laptops that otherwise match my criteria because they’ve crammed in the navigation keys (which I use a whole lot more than the mouse for navigating).
The slimbook’s keys look big enough, I’d probably prefer smaller keys with more space, but it wouldn’t be a deal-breaker. However their insistence on making the keyboard one huge rectangle rather than seperating the navigation keys looses major points in my book. The pink photo on their website even highlights the difference between a good layout and a crammed one. Why can’t we have that external keyboard layout built into the laptop? They’d loose a bit of space between keys but still the external keyboard layout is far more usable than the laptop’s (even minus the keypad)…so why didn’t they base the laptop’s keyboard layout around that? IMHO it’s ironic that they would even show that picture highlighting how they crammed the nav keys into the right shift and control keys. And the fact that the enter & backspace keys are not on the right-hand side of the main keyboard…ugh.
Layout matters a lot and it makes the difference between “hey this is such a usable keyboard” versus “I keep hitting the wrong damn button”. I am extremely picky about this. I once returned a laptop due to how unproductive the keyboard felt, I don’t want to fight my keyboard.
StephenBeDoper,
Actually I totally agree with you. I’m still hanging onto my T530 precisely for that reason. I have even less viable choices, because I need a 15″ laptop and I hate it when they put numberpads that offset the trackpad.
Just 1.1kg and a 14″ screen is a nice combination. I’d definitely be interested to read a review of this.
USB-C charging is the only miss for me!
Displayport output is the missing feature for me… I mean: You could connect two external screens, enable freesync and other display goodies, but no, stinkin’ old HDMI is what we get.
I can’t even find if it supports 4k@60+ output… (at least HDMI 2.0)
According to this comment ( https://slimbook.es/foro/question/5089-ficha-tecnica-pro-x15-amd ), usb-c charging is supported. I also asked what alternate modes are supported.
I didn’t know KDE-branded laptops existed up until now, despite the fact I visit OSNews. Nice marketing there…
Apple didn’t open their Apple Stores in major metropolitan locations to make retail money (not initially, at least), but so that they ‘ll act as living advertisements for their products (at a time the Apple name was fading from public consciousness). You see, unix-like and linux-based OSes look very good on a store table, because they are super-fast and don’t have McAfee howling about subscription renewals on a new machine, so Apple quickly understood that live display is THE way to promote them. If KDE can’t open their own store, they should go the Samsung way and at least pay for premium placement in third-party stores. Assuming they are serious about this, of course.
I don’t blame KDE for not getting this though, Google doesn’t either (most people don’t know a Pixel line exists).
kurkosdr,
https://9to5google.com/2019/04/16/pixel-top-5-united-states/
This is also why Linux distros have provided live media for decades. “Try before you buy” and being greeted with an OS resident entirely in RAM that can still read the files on your Windows partition is a hell of a first impression for the technically inclined.
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