Apparently, you can still get laptops with good keyboard feel
The physical layout, though, you can't change, and we found this cramped. The machine squeezes in a numeric keypad, but there isn't really enough room for it: it's only three columns of keys wide, and it's contiguous with the main alphanumeric block to the extent that the cursor-right key is in the numeric keypad. We found it uncomfortably cramped, and would have preferred a more spread-out"tenkeyless" layout without the keypad.
We threw various OSes at it to see which would stick. Tuxedo OS, Fedora 37 , Ubuntu, Kubuntu and Ubuntu Unity : all installed without a hitch, and all hardware worked immediately, including Wifi. Out of curiosity, we also tried FreeBSD 13.1, but it was unable to see either wired or wireless network adaptors. Tuxedo tech support told usWe also experimentally tried Windows 11, which worked fine but couldn't see the machine's Wi-fi adaptor.
No doubt this will be sorted in an update very soon, but it shows the perils of combining open-source OSes and cutting-edge hardware, even when specifically sold as a Linux machine. We reviewed the AMD-based model: our machine had the unexpected pairing of an AMD CPU plus an nVidia GPU: a Ryzen 9 6800HX CPU, plus a GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GPU with its own 8GB of RAM. Our machine has 32GB of main memory and a 1TB NVMe drive. As you might expect, it shipped, the company's own flavor of Kubuntu. As configured, this model would cost €2,858 . An Intel model is also available with a Core i9-12900H CPU.
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