let us actually buy it

May 8, 2012

Posted By:  kiwibird

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I currently use the top-range Thinkpad X220. Things I love about it:

- _matte_ IPS screen that works outside
- keyboard that you can type on forever without hurting in your fingers
- long battery life
- RAM upgradable to 16GB
- fast, quad-core cpu
- silent

However, the Thinkpad is also ugly and not very thin. The Dell XPS
beats it there.

I realize web dev's don't really need more than dual-core, but if you
want to catch 3D devs, big data analysts, researchers, people who do
lots of compiling, you should really offer more cores for the
top-range models. And make sure RAM is upgradable in these VirtualBox
times.


But the most important point to me is this: make it available on your
web site! And sell it in all countries where you sell Windows laptops.
I don't want to have to call some foreign number and ship to a friend
in another country just to buy a Ubuntu-pre-installed laptop …

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  • May 8, 2012     Comment Link

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    Posted By: cote

    Thanks for the input! The more input like we get, the better we can craft the work.

    And, to be clear: Sputnik is currently just a project we're working on and not a product, so we haven't been worrying about putting a purchasable product on the website right now. We want to focus on developing the whole "platform," if you will. At the moment, you can buy a stock XPS 13 and install the image on it yourself. Of course, if the project is a success, we'd like to make it as easy as possible to buy it off the web, where ever you're ordering from.
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  • May 8, 2012     Comment Link

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    Posted By: AlfromRoke

    Despite disagreeing about the a lot about the RAM and CPU I seriously do agree a lot with the sentiment regarding international availabilty do I won't promote your idea due to the non-dev focus (we are talking about an 'ultrabook' here, which holds distinct advantages over most notebooks, but isn't right for everyone (e.g. 3D devs, big data analysts, researchers, people who do lots of compiling))