Purchased one to try for work (perks of being in the IT department),
just arrived today. Personally interested in running FreeBSD on it, and wanted to see how possible that is and what doesn't work (see
https://xyinn.org/md/freebsd/wifibox for excellent write-up). Officially I need to test Ubuntu Desktop and Windows on it, but here are my initial impressions to date:
- quality is extremely high; I expected something to suffer for the cost, but it strikes me as a nicely manufactured laptop in every respect
- initial configuration, adding in external ports, memory and nvme drive, took all of 10 minutes from laptop opening to closing again ... amazing job they've done
- every bit of the insides of the laptop is labeled, it's clear and clean and there are 2d barcodes you can scan for all components to get instant documentation
- bios is legit, modern, nicely laid out, simple to configure
- from order to delivery took a few weeks, nothing extreme. Came direct from Taiwan
- the keyboard has nice raised keys, and I'm super comfortable typing on it. Only issue for me coming from a Mac, the function and control keys are swapped on the left side, but that's easy to fix up... overall, one of the nicest keyboards I've seen on a laptop
- weight feels like a current Macbook Air, just a little larger dimensions overall
- switches to hard turn off camera and microphone on the top ... nice!
Overall I'm extremely pleased with this laptop, and I'm thinking there is zero reason I'm spending so much money with Dell (our current standard). I was thinking of using Lenovo, but screw that.. if my testing pans out, this is our new standard.
- quality is extremely high; I expected something to suffer for the cost, but it strikes me as a nicely manufactured laptop in every respect
- initial configuration, adding in external ports, memory and nvme drive, took all of 10 minutes from laptop opening to closing again ... amazing job they've done
- every bit of the insides of the laptop is labeled, it's clear and clean and there are 2d barcodes you can scan for all components to get instant documentation
- bios is legit, modern, nicely laid out, simple to configure
- from order to delivery took a few weeks, nothing extreme. Came direct from Taiwan
- the keyboard has nice raised keys, and I'm super comfortable typing on it. Only issue for me coming from a Mac, the function and control keys are swapped on the left side, but that's easy to fix up... overall, one of the nicest keyboards I've seen on a laptop
- weight feels like a current Macbook Air, just a little larger dimensions overall
- switches to hard turn off camera and microphone on the top ... nice!
Overall I'm extremely pleased with this laptop, and I'm thinking there is zero reason I'm spending so much money with Dell (our current standard). I was thinking of using Lenovo, but screw that.. if my testing pans out, this is our new standard.