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.
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 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’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.
I bought InfinityBook Pro 14.
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.
Other than the touchpad on my unit, it would be perfect in terms of practical aspects.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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