Hi everyone,

as I got asked in some comments to tell a bit about my experiences, here a short review after a month of use.

I came from a Lenovo ThinkPad T540p, which is about 10 years old by now. While the CPU is still great, it has only 16 GB of RAM which started to became tight for my VMs, the battery lasts only 20-30 minutes and it won't turn on without being connected to a power outlet, it's heavy and worst of all due to the hybrid use of the dedicated Nvidia graphics card and all the driver issues in Linux, use with external monitors became next to impossible without having to deal with driver problems again and again.

Therefore I looked for a new laptop. My requirements were Linux-friendly, long battery lifetime, good performance and no Nvidia graphics card. My sister has an Aura Gen 1 and as she's quite happy with that, I looked at Tuxedo and found the IBP 14 Gen 8. I configured it with: - 64 GB RAM (Samsung 4800 MHz) - 2 TB Samsung 990 Pro (NVMe PCIe 4.0 SSD) - Intel Core i7-13700H (although that was preconfigured) I was worried a bit about the smaller size and not having two M.2 slots, but ultimately decided to go with the bigger battery and smaller size, as I need to travel for work.

I received my laptop about a month ago. I think the time between ordering and the laptop arriving was about two weeks, and I also asked for a custom logo. The laptop arrived nicely packaged! My first impression upon unpacking was "wow, that's light! And small!" - my ThinkPad weighted about 3 kg, this one is 1.3 kg - quite a difference! Despite the low weight, it's nice and sturdy - the housing is nicely made and it's the perfect form factor for frequent traveling (as a physics PhD student, I sometimes have to attend conferences - I had two in the past month and it was such an improvement having a lighter laptop!). The display sometimes can wobble if you are moving/shaking the laptop too much while having it on your lap, but I had no issues there. The keyboard is nice, but quite different to my ThinkPad and that took the longest to get used to. My ThinkPad has hollow keys with a deep keystroke. The IBP has flat keys and a much softer keystroke - both a comfortable, but extremely different. I like the keyboard of the IBP a lot now that I'm used to it, it's precise and quiet enough to send an email while listening to a talk. The touchpad is really large and precise. I like that you can turn it off if needed! The display is also nice and crisp and the colours look great. Coming from a 3K display, I like a high pixel density for sharp text and images. The brightness is good as well - I mostly hover around 15-25% brightness, as that's already bright enough for a normal office setting.

Coming to performance! I only started TuxedoOS for a short while to see that all components are registering, but switched to OpenSuse Leap 15.5 with KDE as that's my main OS (alongside Fedora). Installation was uneventful, I added the tuxedo repository to get the control center (which is super convenient in setting up different profiles for different working modes!). I did encounter some driver issues, though that's not Tuxedos fault (Bluetooth audio was not working, and I still have to figure out how to get Bluetooth file transfer working again. This is however a problem of OpenSuse and not Tuxedo). The laptop is very quiet, fans stay silent even when running some simulations in my VMs, which are CPU intensive (I currently use the default profile). The CPU Temperature mostly hovers around 45°C and so far, the laptop has never really gotten hot. It's quite fast in its processing speed and can definitely more than rival my ThinkPad, which had a desktop processor in it, especially given the fact that I went from 4 cores to 20... Peripherals (save for Bluetooth) work as intended, so no issues there. The battery lifetime is great, I can get a solid 6 hours of intensive work (simulations, data analysis, VMs - I'm a particle physicist and we have to work with large data sets and precise simulations) out of it and more than 8 hours of normal work (think office, emails, light coding), so I agree with the estimates on the website, they are quite realistic. Charging (I use the included charger, haven't tried USB-C charging yet as I don't have a powerful enough charger) works fast, the laptop doesn't get hot and I also don't notice any performance differences as for example slowing down while charging.

Tuxedo did sent me the wrong LAN adapter at first (100 Mbits vs 1 GBit), but promptly sent me a new one when informing them, which arrived 2 days later. Thanks for the nice support!

I'd also like to say a word about the custom logo option - I thought it would be a fun idea to get my own logo, so I designed one. I followed their manual on how they want to receive the logo and sent them the logo, but had unfortunately selected the wrong inkscape setting (which created not one image, but a layered svg) - perhaps that could be added to the manual? Upon correcting the image to a one layer svg, everything went smoothly (and a big thanks to the support for helping me and providing feedback). My design was printed as I wanted it and it looks awesome! The printing is very sharp and crisp, so even fine structures get nicely resolved. I absolutely love it and got some comments about this!

All in all, this laptop works amazingly and I can 100% recommend it!

TLDR: Very nice laptop, battery lifetime is great (lasts through an office day for me), good performance (I do coding for simulations&data analysis and work a lot with VMs), good display - can recommend!

If you have further questions, please ask away!