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I know, however it also costs $800 for middling performance at best and is backordered probably until early 2022.

It's close and getting closer, though.



One plus 6 support is looking pretty good. Give a few months and it may be a viable choice with decent specs.


> for middling performance at best

I am curious, what do you need in terms of performance? It can play 3D games and show videos on a big screen.

> backordered probably until early 2022

This is indeed a problem. Pinephone (with a worse performance) also has convergence and should be more available.


> "I am curious, what do you need in terms of performance? It can play 3D games and show videos on a big screen."

Better real-world performance than my X220i, so at least able to play some games from my Steam library, play 1080p60 videos, multitasking, that sort of thing. I assume the Librem 5 can probably do all of this, although I'm highly skeptical of running the desktop version of Firefox on just 3GB RAM. As a do-it-all mobile device, I would also need better battery life than my current smartphone, so 1-2 days of normal usage.

As an aside, that X220i cost me ~$370 in 2018 and is a 2012 vintage machine, so not even close to current laptop performance. I appreciate what Purism are trying to do, but you'll certainly pay a price for being an early adopter.




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