Linux Lite Branded Laptop

[Valtam]

I've been in touch with a number of laptop manufacturers and asked for sample units to pair with Linux Lite 4.x

The following specs are likely to be selected based on value and features:

    CPU: Apollo Lake N3450 Quad Core 2.20 GHz
    OS: Linux Lite 4.x
    Screen: 13.3" 1920*1080 TN
    Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 500
    RAM:​ 4GB DDR
    Storage: 64GB or 128GB
    Camera: front 2MP
    Battery: 9500mAh (8 to 10 Hours!)
    Network: Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n
    Connection: Bluetooth 4.0
    USB 3.0

As you can see you get full HD, 8 -10 battery hours (TBC), comes in Gold and Black, although I am thinking people will want just black?
These are all the spec details I have for now. More will follow, especially regarding I/O.





My main question is, what would be a fair, 'good value for you' price for this? The answers to this will determine whether or not this is a viable pursuit.

Thank you

[TMG1961]

When i buy a laptop from a country outside of the EU i have to pay 21% VAT, the 21% come on top of the total price, so including shipment and insurance of the shipment. For it too be interesting to buy it should not be more then 300 euro including shipping/insurance for shipping. I also prefer a 15.6"laptop, but thats personal.

[Ottawagrant]

A similar spec laptop in Canada with Windows 10 is around CA$279.00 - $399.00. A Chromebook (similar specs) is about the same price. [color=rgb(0, 0, 0)][/color]

[color=rgb(0, 0, 0)]I just wanted to mention that new laptops are WiFi only. New computers do not have Ethernet ports, or VGA ports, they connect by HDMI only. [/color]

[bluzeo]

I say 599$ if you can had AMD to it  but Intel I need to see it fully.

God not dead. He roaring like an lion.

[Valtam]

Thank you all for your answers to date

[m654321]

Before asking what is a reasonable price, you need to state what the unique selling points of such a laptop are. The USPs will help determine the price.  For example (copied and pasted & v. slightly mofdified from eugen-b on a similar discussion on the Manjaro forum at
https://forum.manjaro.org/t/manjaro-spit...s/43205/17):

• exclusivity, because there are not many items sold.
  
• It might get significant collectors value in the fututre.
  
• Linux compatibility is not a by-product of uncertain quality
  
• Linux compatibility is assured through extensive tests by real experts.
  
• You get extreme respect by LL community.
  
• I don’t know if it is in the terms of service, but if  one really has an issue, will the LL team spend time to help through a remote log in on your machine and see what’s wrong.
  

A great idea Jerry  8)
Cheers
Mike

[Valtam]

At 999, the Manjaro laptop price is off the charts. Ours will be mid-spec for less than half that retail. they must be making 100's in profit from each one. Not good.
Anyhoo, still looking for prices here for the LL one. Suggestions?

[Searchernow]

pricing:

I can't put a figure on it, but around 300 Euros could be good for a home use laptop.

Unless I'm being naive, the ethos of foss can carry through to hardware too, with reasonable mark-ups to pay staff. Many of the citizens of Richistan are actively destroying this world, then voting themselves 55Bn dollar bonuses (Musk). So good on LL crew for a donation-based OS and reasonably-priced laptops, and keeping greed out of it.

I presume they'll be sold locally, so here in Europe we'll pay vat anyway.

Gold can look tacky pretty quickly, stick with black or some dark colours, whatever the suppliers can do.

[WytWun]

Just a couple of observations from local pricing (from Officeworks in Australia):

• Lenovo Ideapad 120s: AU$400 (N3350/4GB RAM/64GB eMMC/14 in 1366x768/AC WiFi/1.44kg)
  
• Acer Swift 1 SF113: AU$500 (N3450/4GB RAM/64GB eMMC/13.3 in 1920x108 IPS/AC WiFi/1.3kg)
  

Both with Windows 10 Home of course.  The killer difference for both of these compared to what Jerry has found is the AC class WiFi, which is becoming useful as the 2.4GHz spectrum becomes very congested in heavily populated areas.  Unfortunately neither can be upgraded beyond 4GB RAM as far as I can determine  .

At AU$500 the Acer is potentially quite attractive to me personally (except that I already have my laptop needs covered for the moment with an older Acer 13.3" N2840 machine, which has a real SSD and 8GB of RAM to compensate for the anaemic CPU  though LL makes the most of it's performance).

My main LL machine is a J3455 equipped Intel NUC which has more than adequate performance for the lightweight desktop duties it performs; the N3450 seems to have performance within 10% of the J3455 in most assessments I've found so quite useful performance for the money.  Not a gaming machine or heavy video editing platform though...

2 spec items I think it would be useful to have clarified:

• weight
  
• RAM expansion capability
  

Gold can look tacky pretty quickly, stick with black or some dark colours.

+1

[TheDead]

[member=2]Jerry[/member] and [member=5803]Ottawagrant[/member]
I found what seems the same laptop pictures by Jerry in Canada, at about 379$CAD (64G), but this one has 6GB RAM instead of 4.
From the specs tho, the hard drive is EMMC. From the forum threads, it seems this could mean having to use UEFI. (?).
I don't have this kind of laptop at hand, but if I come accross one at work, I'll try the LL4.0b on it.

Cheers!