<story><title>StarFighter 16 inch: 4K Coreboot/Ryzen Linux laptop</title><url>https://starlabs.systems/pages/starfighter</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hedora</author><text>This Linux laptop looks too good to be true.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s available with an AMD or Intel processor, there aren&amp;#x27;t any strange ergonomic decisions (other than the stow-able web-cam).  In particular, they centered they trackpad + keyboard, and it looks like it has decent thermals. The battery is rated for 18 hours.  You can choose between a medium resolution, high frame rate display (UHD @ 165Hz) or a 4K 60Hz display.  The screen is matte.  They claim it POSTs in under a second.&lt;p&gt;The only real downside is the 4-5 month lead time.  Am I missing something?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chx</author><text>&amp;gt; Am I missing something?&lt;p&gt;Yeah. The company is three people with practically no money at hand. I can&amp;#x27;t imagine this being real. Check &amp;quot;full accounts made up to 28 February 2022&amp;quot; &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk&amp;#x2F;company&amp;#x2F;10602146&amp;#x2F;filing-history&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk&amp;#x2F;c...&lt;/a&gt; with cash at hand being just 13,887 pounds. How on earth are you making a laptop from that? Framework started with a nine million seed round and had the former head of hardware at Oculus as the founder for expertise in this field. Now, almost eight figures is prolly overkill but I have hard time imagining low five figures being enough. It doesn&amp;#x27;t mean there&amp;#x27;s malicious intent here, they just might not be fully aware of the challenges here and will find themselves in way over their head.&lt;p&gt;Note there&amp;#x27;s no doxxing here, the CRN is on the contact us page: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;starlabs.systems&amp;#x2F;pages&amp;#x2F;contact-us&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;starlabs.systems&amp;#x2F;pages&amp;#x2F;contact-us&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>StarFighter 16 inch: 4K Coreboot/Ryzen Linux laptop</title><url>https://starlabs.systems/pages/starfighter</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hedora</author><text>This Linux laptop looks too good to be true.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s available with an AMD or Intel processor, there aren&amp;#x27;t any strange ergonomic decisions (other than the stow-able web-cam).  In particular, they centered they trackpad + keyboard, and it looks like it has decent thermals. The battery is rated for 18 hours.  You can choose between a medium resolution, high frame rate display (UHD @ 165Hz) or a 4K 60Hz display.  The screen is matte.  They claim it POSTs in under a second.&lt;p&gt;The only real downside is the 4-5 month lead time.  Am I missing something?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>NovemberWhiskey</author><text>Have they actually &lt;i&gt;made&lt;/i&gt; one yet? The pictures on the site all look like renders; and I couldn&amp;#x27;t find any pictures of an actual prototype anywhere.</text></comment>