I have never bought anything from Purism but I have considered it. Now though, I have my doubts.

Purism is a scam

Any thoughts? Have you dealt with that company or their products? Are they legit?

  • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.orgOPEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Nice! Thanks for the detailed reply.

    What the BIOS battery charge out of them? Does it charge with a separate charging circuit when you plug the laptop in? Unless you have to pull it out and charge it outside the laptop, or it charges much slower than the main battery, I struggle to understand how it can ever become discharged before the main battery.

    • jetAEnglish
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      1 year ago

      The Laptop 13 bios battery only charged off external USB-C power. I’m sure they are going to change this.

      So in shipping the bios battery could get low, and if you run your new laptop down to zero off the battery, you could in theory exhaust the bios battery putting it into a weird state. Because the rechargeable battery doesn’t hold as much charge as a normal non-rechargeable bios battery it needs to be recharged at least every two weeks (or something surprisingly short).

      So if you don’t use your laptop for a long time, you could get into the state where you can’t boot it until you charge the bios battery with external power for 24 hours.

      I didn’t run into this exact issue, but it complicated the debugging of my can’t use the battery at all problem.

      • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.orgOPEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Ah right okay. Well it’s not like you can brick the laptop at least. As long as you’re aware of the issue, I guess it’s okay. Thanks!

      • jetAEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I think they just got too fancy with a early design before they really gained institutional history and culture around KISS