{"id":2105,"date":"2016-05-02T23:24:06","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T22:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ulrichard.ch\/blog\/?p=2105"},"modified":"2016-05-02T23:24:06","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T22:24:06","slug":"why-i-still-have-no-new-notebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ulrichard.ch\/blog\/?p=2105","title":{"rendered":"Why I still have no new notebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been more than 14 months since my XPS 13DE notebook was stolen. Ever since, I was on the hunt for a replacement. I have just some simple requirements that seem so difficult to meet:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Linux pre-installed<\/li>\n<li>Payment in BitCoin<\/li>\n<li>Swiss German Keyboard with back light<\/li>\n<li>Ultrabook (slim and powerful)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The natural choice would be to go with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dell.com\/learn\/ch\/de\/chbsdt1\/campaigns\/dell-linux-ubuntu-en?c=ch&amp;l=de&amp;s=bsd#campaignTabs-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">successor of the model that I was so fond of<\/a>. Dell does accept BitCoin, but only in the US, UK and Canada. Unfortunately they don&#8217;t sell Swiss keyboards in those markets, and I don&#8217;t know where to get a keyboard to retro fit.<\/p>\n<p>There are a few vendors selling devices that fulfill some of the requirements, but I found only one so far that can achieve them all.<\/p>\n<p>The best choice at the moment seems to be a <a href=\"https:\/\/puri.sm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Librem13 or Librem15 from purism<\/a>. The 13inch model has only an i5 processor, and no backlit keyboard. So I would opt for the 15inch model. They have difficulties getting the display panels. And lots of the devices they shipped internationally didn&#8217;t reach their destination. This an unfortunate situation, but they seem very friendly and responsive. From what I can observe, they give their best to resolve the situation as good as they can. At the moment It looks like I have to wait two more months to get a Librem15.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some devices that I considered:<\/p>\n<table border=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Model<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Linux<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>BitCoin<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Keyboard<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Ultrabook<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Remarks<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dell.com\/learn\/ch\/de\/chbsdt1\/campaigns\/dell-linux-ubuntu-en?c=ch&amp;l=de&amp;s=bsd#campaignTabs-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dell XPS13 Developer Edition<\/a><\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"#66ff33\">yes<\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"#ff3300\">no<\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"#66ff33\">yes<\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"#66ff33\">yes<\/td>\n<td>Very nice device<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/puri.sm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Purism Librem15<\/a><\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"#66ff33\">yes<\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"#66ff33\">yes<\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"#66ff33\">yes<\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"#66ff33\">yes<\/td>\n<td>Waiting for display, and shipping problems<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tuxedocomputers.com\/Linux-Hardware\/Linux-Notebooks\/10-14-Zoll\/TUXEDO-InfinityBook-13-3-matt-Full-HD-IPS-Aluminiumgehaeuse-Intel-Core-i7-Energiespar-CPU-zwei-HDD\/SSD-bis-16GB-RAM-bis-15h-Akku-Slim-Book.geek\" target=\"&quot;_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tuxedo<\/a><\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"#66ff33\">yes<\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"#ffff00\">unknown<\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"#ff3300\">no<\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"#66ff33\">yes<\/td>\n<td>Only German Keyboards<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/whyopencomputing.ch\/de\/laptops-why\/157-laptop-why-w840au-pro.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Why<\/a><\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"#66ff33\">yes<\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"#ff3300\">no<\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"#66ff33\">yes<\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"#66ff33\">yes<\/td>\n<td>Out of stock<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>If you know of a device that fulfills my requirements, and is not listed here, please tell me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been more than 14 months since my XPS 13DE notebook was stolen. Ever since, I was on the hunt for a replacement. I have just some simple requirements that seem so difficult to meet: Linux pre-installed Payment in BitCoin Swiss German Keyboard with back light Ultrabook (slim and powerful) The natural choice would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6,1],"tags":[37,70,133,135,155,177],"class_list":["post-2105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin","category-projects","category-uncategorized","tag-bitcoin","tag-dell","tag-librem","tag-linux","tag-notebook","tag-purism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ulrichard.ch\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ulrichard.ch\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ulrichard.ch\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ulrichard.ch\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ulrichard.ch\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ulrichard.ch\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ulrichard.ch\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ulrichard.ch\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ulrichard.ch\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}