German Linux hardware manufacturer TUXEDO has announced the launch of its new InfinityBook Max 15, a 15.3-inch business ultrabook that blurs the line between professional workstation and gaming laptop.
Despite its thin, all-metal aluminium chassis and weight of just 1.95 kg, the InfinityBook Max 15 delivers serious computing power. It is powered by the AMD Ryzen AI 300 series of processors, including the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 (12 cores) and Ryzen AI 9 365 (10 cores), as well as the entry-level Ryzen AI 7 350 (8 cores).
A Tux has been on my wishlist all year. updated
Aren’t these just white labeled Chinese brands?
They are rebranded (and expensive) Clevos, but they are manufactured (or configured, or integrated - those all amount to the same thing) in Germany.
To be fair to them this applies to many, many other Laptop brands. Including pretty big ones like MSI.
Clevo, yes, thank you! My search shows they’re Taiwanese. So they engineered in Taiwan and produced in Germany? Because that sounds backwards as hell!
Hardware development is just extremely difficult. The smallest company that I’m aware of that has their own laptop design is Framework, but their laptops are also about twice as expensive as equivalent models from other brands.
In addition, since basically all modern computer manufacturing has to go through Taiwan due to TSMC’s near-monopoly on competitive semiconductors, it makes sense to outsource design to Taiwan too. They already have the industry for it, and there’s no reason to have a random American company add their own profit margin to the price for no reason.
The smallest company that I’m aware of that has their own laptop design is Framework, but their laptops are also about twice as expensive as equivalent models from other brands.
Idk how big they are compared to Framework, but Starlabs makes their own laptops.
Cool, thanks! UK based, if anyone was wondering
I’m pretty sure the individual componentens come from China… But good luck finding any electronic manufacturer that doesn’t use Chinese components. Don’t know what classifies as white labeled for you.
good luck finding any electronic manufacturer that doesn’t use Chinese components.
I really don’t understand why so many people are confused about Chinese brands vs. “Made in China”.
“White labeled” means they take an existing product that’s already being sold and do nothing but slap their branding on it and sell it in a different store.
They do develop Linux drivers for the laptops they sell, so they’re not adding literally zero value. Though they also tried to prevent upstreaming with an incompatible (illegal) license so there’s that…
Oh I mean I’m maining Pop OS Beta right now (it’s awesome!) so I know the value they’re giving there, if nowhere else. But I would rather just make a donation than buy a generic laptop…
We should call it Brand Slapping
I hope that we get modern AMD graphics in a laptop some day. I will never touch Nvidia again.
Who makes a laptop with a keypad???
A sane laptop manufacturer, that’s who
Hello, yes I would like a massive chunk of peripheral used in terminal computing during the eighties, please
Hello, yes, I enter all my numbers via a vertical line and visual search to mock those who use a grid they just have to feel.
Keypads exist for a reason. Please do practice Chesterton’s fence at least a little. We don’t all use laptops the same way.
I just imagine walking up to an apartment building and having to enter a number code using a line of ten numbers 🤣
Hello? Is this the hotline for realizing that a keypad can be accessed without being its own dedicated set of keys for absolutely no reason except to give some post underground computer science aspirants a hipster moment for a computer relic of which even the last appropriate user has good reasons due to dementia
Are you a ragebot? Getting awfully worked up about a keypad.
I appreciate you fella, I am just a human provocateur and I could choose a much better hill to die on but the exchange was funny
Framework 16
big laptop requires big keyb
I would love if my laptop had a numpad lol. The only downside is if it crowds the keyboard to be smaller than my hands.
Me too. It’s unfortunate that it always with no exception does exactly that
