Hello
I am considering buying the 15" Slimbook Evo and I wanted to know if someone here has any experience with Slimbook laptops when it comes to firmware, troubleshooting, hardware quality, build quality, etc etc.
So far they seem to be very decent and everyone who speaks about Slimbooks tends to review them positively, but I just want to be sure.
Heya.
I own a Slimbook KDE Edition Excalibur. It’s my personal laptop, though not a daily driver. I’ve found the build quality to be very solid, and I’ve had zero issues with hardware or firmware across the several Linux distros I’ve tried on it.
If you live somewhere with a different power/plug system than Slimbook (they’re in Spain) I might recommend acquiring your own USB power supply rather than buying one with the laptop. I’m in the US, and while the power supply + adapter I got from them worked it was pretty bulky and less than ideal.
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I live in EU so the power supply is fine.
That’s nice it’s good to hear another positive review from their laptops. I also love how they provide spare parts for repair.
Their customer support seems to be really great when answering questions and doubts, they are highly technical and supportive in their answers, and can answer more technical concerns about hardware.
I bought a Slimbook Evo, I will post an update when it arrives
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My Slimbook arrived last tuesday and I already have my conclusions.
The laptop is great in so many ways. It’s very sturdy and the hardware is very fast while not heating up that much. Despite being light and slim, it has a decent amount of heatsinks and fan exhaust which is great. When the laptop heats up, it barely affects the temperature of the keyboard.
The screen is gorgeous as a 100% sRGB retina screen, though it had a bit of a slight yellowish tint but I corrected that with xcalib. The bios has a lot of options to tinker with and really gives you the freedom you want. Xfce detected the 2560x1600 resolution and 120Hz out of the box.
Battery charge limits can be set to 60%, 80% and 100% on the bios itself, while charge limit control is unavailable at the OS level but that’s fine.
Something that is amazing is the fact that, just like it was marketed, the battery truly is bypassed by charging when you reach the charge limit. This means that, once your battery reaches the current charge limit, the charging goes straight to the hardware and bypasses the battery (somewhat like a desktop power supply), and so as a result my battery charge cycle count is still at 0 despite doing heavy use of this laptop and gaming since tuesday!!!
Hardware works out of the box on Alpine Linux, except for ethernet as I had to install the ethernet driver for the model yt6801. This ethernet chip is also used in some Tuxedo laptops. I also had to install the amdgpu kernel module package on Alpine for the graphics driver implementation.
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