Tuxedo Laptops - Any good?
I’m looking at getting myself a new laptop to replace my Dell Inspiron. I’ll be using it for some on the go video editing.
I watch TheLinuxExperiment and he seems happy enough with Tuxedo Laptops. I was looking at the TUXEDO Stellaris 16 - Gen5 - AMD but I’m open to other recommendations.
I think they are great. Yes, they are a little expensive, but I am really happy with mine, and I've heard only good things about the Stellaris from a friend who owns one.
Have you compared them to Framework? That's what I would probably go for 8f I'd need to buy a laptop
I haven't looked at them recently, definitely need to give them another look.
I like the company and their commitment, but I would still not recommend them (I have two Tuxedo laptops myself and see others from my colleagues): all I saw were loud. Most cannot run completely without fan active, none were able to keep the fan quiet if you put even a little bit load on it. If you put REAL load on it you go deaf.
I would really like them to be perfect, but all I've seen disappointed me, unfortunately. And I am not sure I would take that gamble again when I replace my current one.
I've got a Pulse 15 for a few years now and I'm very happy with it. The keyboard is not the best, but I can live with that.
The Pulse is based on some Clevo machine, you might want to look at what the Stellaris is based on to find more reviews.
I bought a Polaris 15 last year and have no problems with it. The combination of the iGPU from AMD and the dGPU works out of the box and the I/O is fast enough for me.
Btw. I use arch on it as daily driver.
Looks good to me. Great specs and the price seems fine for what you're getting too. If there's no common issues people are having, I don't think there's anything wrong with this Laptop.
I have an older one and I love it. Never has given me issues, is fast, with lots of RAM, and it was cheap back them. Probably now it's more expensive, but it's difficult to find AMD laptops and they are the only linux laptop vendors with AMD (that I found).
Definitely would recommend over shit like Dell or other linux laptop vendors that only have NVIDIA.
I have one, the fan is active a bit too often and my battery became slightly bloated after 2 years of ownership. I did have it plugged in and didn't use the plugged in battery mode, because I didn't know about it, so maybe that was the issue. They did send me a new battery free of charge and I replaced it, so that was a good customer support experience. I general, I would recommend them.
Keep in mind TheLinuxExperiment is sponsored by Tuxedo, so don't take his opinion too seriously.
You can never know and it’s better to be careful, but he’s really careful with his sponsors from what I know.
He talks a lot about his sponsor selection in his Patreoncast and he seems picky about it. But again, it could just be marketing lies.
Still, I’d want to be able to trust his choices😅
That’s why I thought I’d ask here as well.
I bought InfinityBook Pro 14.
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This is perfect laptop for me, besides one thing that my unit has something bad with touchpad, randomly dropping percision which is super annoying as it mess with my muscle memory a couple of times a day.
I have send it to Tuxedo for touchpad replacement, then motherboard replacement... still the same issue, no idea what is happening. Maybe something with connectors, maybe they haven't actually replaced anything.
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Other than the touchpad on my unit, it would be perfect in terms of practical aspects.
My father has one since 6 months, nothing bad to say. The built quality was good, specs for the price also decent, especially for a small seller.
I'm currently sitting with an Aura 15 Gen 2, and I'm definitely happy with it.
I do wish they'd get their firmware onto LVFS, but that's about my main complaint.
it looks pretty thick (2.6cm)
My last few laptops have been Tuxedo. Can heartily recommend. The tux key instead of the windows logo is a very nice touch. The first ones were 13", and their tiny fans could be rather loud during normal operation, but now I have a 15" and it's a dream.
Buy a thinkpad. You can customize them on Lenovos website and save money by removing the operating system etc.
They used to be good. Are they still worth it?
I love my T16 gen1. The P16 is more upgradable but also much more expensive. But basically yeah, you just have to pick the right model and specs.
They're still some of the best machines out there. Every other machine has gotten shittier at an even more rapid pace.
They are okay, not nearly as robust as before.
That's what I did.
On their site you can order a fully customized machine and they'll even install Linux for you.
I ordered a full AMD laptop with a lot more RAM by saving the Windows tax.
They are solid machines. I just got a Thinkpad P1 Gen 6 from work (1,8kg with a friggin 880 gram 230 Watt power supply that I will not have to carry around, fortunately) and it is great.
Thinkpad gang
edit: NVM on-the-go video editing
These are the clowns that still put nvidia in their Linux laptops.
I'm sure the hardware specs are fine -- I wouldn't give nvidia another penny if I could avoid it.
I’d go for Nvidia mainly for the better performance with DaVinci Resolve (generally speaking ).
Generally speaking, nvidia has horrendous drivers and stability issues, and are hostile to the open source community at large, but you do you.
Additionally, nvidia and wayland are notoriously bad together, and with most major distributions now shipping with wayland by default, and KDE Plasma now defaulting to wayland OOB - buying nvidia hardware at this point for linuxy bits is.... foolish, imo.
Yep, Framework, Starlabs, System76 all would be better choices for Linux.
I've seen good reviews of System 76, might be one to throw in the mix.
Perhaps check out https://frame.work
If I remember correctly the shipping was really high when shipping to the EU. Might be different now, I’ll take a look again.
Currently they have direct shipping for some EU's members (Germany, France, Ireland, Netherlands, Austria, Italy, Spain, Belgium) Source
And I think the shipment costs are currently already in the price for the laptop Source
But I've not bought one so I don't have direct experience
I live in a country where Framework doesn't officially ship. I asked them if I could buy and pay for shipping out here in the sticks, as a special order.
Framework's answer was a hard no.
I kept telling them "What part of TAKE MY MONEY I DON'T CARE ABOUT THE COST OF SHIPPING don't you understand? I want to buy a laptop from you, I'm telling you to wave the warranty and I'll pay for shipping no matter how expensive, and you refuse???"
But they refused.
So fuck Framework, sadly.
As for Linus Sebastian investing in their company, that one I didn't know. That doesn't make me all warm and fuzzy because, I don't know why, Linus is one of the most phenomenally irritating Youtuber in Youtubeland. I can't stand listening to the man.
I know it's totally subjective, he's really pro in what he does and I have nothing against him, but it's visceral: I can't stand the sight of him. His investing in Framework makes me want a Framework laptop less - although I fully admit it's not rational at all.
Nah Im not giving a cent to Linus Sebastian until he releases the sexual harassment investigation results he lied about releasing.
Linus from LTT is not behind the Framework company/products: https://frame.work/gb/en/about
He may have done a video about them, but that's about it.
Oh, that was news to me.