What does Holla Forums think of this company? Sounds like exactly what we've wanted in a computer manufacturer.
puri.sm
Perfect laptop OEM?
Luis Jones
Caleb Hall
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Charles Hughes
it would be interesting to see how windows functions on this
Kayden Long
Purism is really good. It's not quite Stallman-certified due to the FSP and vBIOS, but there's work under way to reverse engineer both of those.
For perhaps the first time ever, the response would be "lol, who cares?" when asking an x86 OEM about Windows support. Their entire schtick is Free Software. I'm actually considering trying DragonFly BSD on a Purism.
Anthony Rodriguez
Purism started off as absolute cancer, when their v1 shipped they didn't even have open source touchpad drivers, it seems they've redirected their efforts into being a good company.
Lunduke had their CEO on his show and it was encouraging to see how much is open now and how they're interacting with other open source projects.
Feels weird man, because of how badly they started I am still wary but we're very close to non botnet new x86 CPUs because of these guys.
At the very least they will know how Microsoft feels whenever someone asks them to support linux on their surface line.
Christopher Hernandez
I feel like they are still a little bit of a joke. I think the company is fine right now, but they need to ship a good product that reflects there current situation. Little news blurbs like these are nice, but it isn't going to create as big of a PR thing as releasing a new product would. If there phone goes well, people's view on them will definitely change.
I'm still not sure if I want to back there phone though since it is pretty expensive. I could use a dumb phone + pda/laptop and it would be a lot cheaper for a somewhat similar expensive. If I just wanted to switch to something like copperhead or replicant, I would need to buy a completely new phone anyways (the cheapest phone that they support is a few hundred cheaper than the librem 5 IIRC). Although running GNU/Linux on a phone would be cool, I'm not sure how good the experience would be without a proper keyboard. I'm open to hearing why I should get it, else give me more FUD. I want to have a firm decision and not just panic buy it since I only have this weekend to decide.
Caleb Flores
Can't some company just buy old IBM thinkpad designs from Lenovo, adapt it to new 4:3 or 3:2 13 inch screens like ones you see in iPad's or Microsoft tablets, and start producing new hardware with complete backwards compatibility with existing chink accessories like keyboards, palmrests and nipples?
Luis Walker
At this point, I'm planning to just move away from Intel entirely, and never give them a penny again. The Pinebook (ARM) laptop sounds interesting. There's also that MIPS-based one (Loongson), but seems to be hard to get ahold of unless you live in or travel to China.
But most likely I'll just go with an ARM SBC, and avoid laptops entirely.
Daniel Cox
you can do the same thing they're doing to disable ME yourself now, the software and documentation are out, you just need $100 worth of shit, a pi and some cables/clamps. you also need to be able to take the risk if you brick the board or processor.
the risk and experience doing it seem well worth it though if your going to consider dropping $1700 on a new laptop.
Joshua Jenkins
More interested in their smartphone. Just need a good browser, email client, maps and streaming music player, everything else can suck a dick