For all of you who keep asking for more AMD powered laptops, Slimbook have delivered with the brand new Excalibur which also has a KDE Slimbook counterpart.
The Excalibur comes with an AMD Ryzen 7840HS, AMD Radeon 780M GPU, a big 16" IPS 165Hz screen with a 2560x1600 16:10 resolution, 5600 MHz RAM (16GB base model up to 64GB), a 250GB NMVe on the base model up to 4TB x 2 and of course your choice of operating system with numerous Linux distributions offered out of the box. Coming in at €999 thanks to a €200 discount during pre-orders with availability expected in April.
Main specs:
- CPU: AMD Ryzen 7-7840HS
- 8 cores 16 threads, up to 5.1GHz
- Graphics: AMD Radeon 780M
- Display: 16" WQXGA (2560x1600) 16:10 sRGB 100%, 165Hz, 400 nits
- Ports: 2x USB-C USB3.2 Gen1 with PD3.0 charging and 4K@60Hz video output
- Ports: 3x USB-A 3.2 Gen1
- Keyboard: backlit
- Material: aluminum
- Networking: Wifi 6, Bluetooth 5.2
- RAM: up to 64GB at 5600 MHz DDR5
- Storage: 2x SSD NVMe PCIe 4.0 M.2 up to 8TB
- Keyboard: multiple languages
See the Slimbook store page.
Additionally, Slimbook has also announced the first laptop to come with KDE Plasma 6 with their refreshed KDE Slimbook model which seems to be exactly the same as the Excalibur but bundled with KDE Neon. And buying that model supports KDE directly.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Quoting: HannesIt seems only the 16" Framework and maybe the StarLabs Starfighter are serving us numpad haters.
😔 Yeah, I wish more laptops opted to omit the numpad and use the space for two top-firing speakers beside the keyboard, 15" MBP style.
(Maybe there's potential for Framework 16 to implement that option in the future? 😅)
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