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I bought a Clevo barebones system called "InfinityBook Pro 13" by "TUXEDO Computers". Here's my impressions.
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Tuxedo InfinityBook Pro 13

Note: This is some Clevo barebones.

Pros and Cons

Drawbacks

  • There is light noise on the headphone port if a microphone is plugged into the microphone port. Without, there is no audible noise.
  • The touchpad is garbage. Weird surface, doesn't recognise finger pressure or movements that well. The minimum amount you need to move a finger to make the pointer move is noticeably high, which is bad on a touchpad that small. Two-finger scrolling is sketchy as well.
  • The touchpad's buttons are not that great. Clicking very fast leads to some dropped inputs. Clicks do not feel all that nice, notably because the two buttons are one physically continuous piece of (aluminised?) plastic that's fixated in the middle, so how the click feels depends on where your finger is placed horizontally along that strip.
  • While the screws on the bottom are easy Phillips-style screwheads, I couldn't get the bottom cover off even after unscrewing all of them.
  • The power button is placed weirdly and doesn't feel very nice.
  • Caps Lock key doesn't have an indicator light.
  • Laptop speakers seem worse than usual.

Good things

  • Construction feels okay otherwise, the shell fits together well, the hinge feels good.
  • USB ports have proper grip to them, so USB devices you plug in don't just wiggle themselves loose. This may change over time though.
  • Keyboard feels acceptable for a laptop keyboard. Dedicated buttons for Delete/Insert/Home/End/Page Up/Page Down.
  • Fan is really quiet. You will not hear it during normal operation.
  • The weird ethernet fold-down hinge thing actually works.
  • Suspend and Hibernate work out of the box, tested with Kernel 4.13.8.
  • The monitor is an IPS panel, so the colour reproduction seems good.
  • Seems to support Linux quite well out of the box.

Notes

  • Holding F2 during boot is how you get to the UEFI/BIOS. F12 or Delete won't work.
  • Waking up from Suspend requires you to press the power button. There could be a Wake-on-Keyboard option I didn't enable though.
  • Tuxedo Computers included a lot of free goodies with my order, which is kinda cool.
  • The Wi-Fi chip is part of the configuration.
  • Shipped power-brick does not have a power indicator LED, may be a good thing for people who sleep in the same room as where their devices are.

Not tested

  • Internal SATA slots (Couldn't get the laptop open.)
  • HDMI output.
  • Webcam.
  • miniDP output.
  • USB-C/Thunderbolt.
  • SD card reader.
  • Internal microphone (lol.)

Cold Hard Data

lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v6/7th Gen Core Processor Host Bridge/DRAM Registers (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 620 (rev 02)
00:08.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v5/v6 / E3-1500 v5 / 6th/7th Gen Core Processor Gaussian Mixture Model
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP USB 3.0 xHCI Controller (rev 21)
00:14.2 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP Thermal subsystem (rev 21)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP CSME HECI #1 (rev 21)
00:17.0 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 21)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #1 (rev f1)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #5 (rev f1)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #6 (rev f1)
00:1d.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #9 (rev f1)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Device 9d4e (rev 21)
00:1f.2 Memory controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP PMC (rev 21)
00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio (rev 21)
00:1f.4 SMBus: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP SMBus (rev 21)
3a:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8411B PCI Express Card Reader (rev 01)
3a:00.1 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 12)
3b:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 8265 / 8275 (rev 78)
3c:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd NVMe SSD Controller SM961/PM961

lsusb

/:  Bus 02.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=xhci_hcd/6p, 5000M
    |__ (Omitted)
/:  Bus 01.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=xhci_hcd/12p, 480M
    |__ Port 4: Dev 5, If 1, Class=Video, Driver=uvcvideo, 480M
    |__ Port 4: Dev 5, If 0, Class=Video, Driver=uvcvideo, 480M
    |__ Port 5: Dev 3, If 0, Class=Wireless, Driver=btusb, 12M
    |__ Port 5: Dev 3, If 1, Class=Wireless, Driver=btusb, 12M

/proc/cpuinfo

processor	: 0
vendor_id	: GenuineIntel
cpu family	: 6
model		: 142
model name	: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7500U CPU @ 2.70GHz
stepping	: 9
microcode	: 0x62
cpu MHz		: 2900.000
cache size	: 4096 KB
physical id	: 0
siblings	: 4
core id		: 0
cpu cores	: 2
apicid		: 0
initial apicid	: 0
fpu		: yes
fpu_exception	: yes
cpuid level	: 22
wp		: yes
flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc art arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc cpuid aperfmperf tsc_known_freq pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 sdbg fma cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm abm 3dnowprefetch cpuid_fault intel_pt tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid fsgsbase tsc_adjust bmi1 avx2 smep bmi2 erms invpcid mpx rdseed adx smap clflushopt xsaveopt xsavec xgetbv1 xsaves dtherm ida arat pln pts hwp hwp_notify hwp_act_window hwp_epp
bugs		:
bogomips	: 5810.00
clflush size	: 64
cache_alignment	: 64
address sizes	: 39 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

processor	: 1
vendor_id	: GenuineIntel
cpu family	: 6
model		: 142
model name	: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7500U CPU @ 2.70GHz
stepping	: 9
microcode	: 0x62
cpu MHz		: 2900.000
cache size	: 4096 KB
physical id	: 0
siblings	: 4
core id		: 1
cpu cores	: 2
apicid		: 2
initial apicid	: 2
fpu		: yes
fpu_exception	: yes
cpuid level	: 22
wp		: yes
flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc art arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc cpuid aperfmperf tsc_known_freq pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 sdbg fma cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm abm 3dnowprefetch cpuid_fault intel_pt tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid fsgsbase tsc_adjust bmi1 avx2 smep bmi2 erms invpcid mpx rdseed adx smap clflushopt xsaveopt xsavec xgetbv1 xsaves dtherm ida arat pln pts hwp hwp_notify hwp_act_window hwp_epp
bugs		:
bogomips	: 5811.13
clflush size	: 64
cache_alignment	: 64
address sizes	: 39 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

processor	: 2
vendor_id	: GenuineIntel
cpu family	: 6
model		: 142
model name	: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7500U CPU @ 2.70GHz
stepping	: 9
microcode	: 0x62
cpu MHz		: 2900.000
cache size	: 4096 KB
physical id	: 0
siblings	: 4
core id		: 0
cpu cores	: 2
apicid		: 1
initial apicid	: 1
fpu		: yes
fpu_exception	: yes
cpuid level	: 22
wp		: yes
flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc art arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc cpuid aperfmperf tsc_known_freq pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 sdbg fma cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm abm 3dnowprefetch cpuid_fault intel_pt tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid fsgsbase tsc_adjust bmi1 avx2 smep bmi2 erms invpcid mpx rdseed adx smap clflushopt xsaveopt xsavec xgetbv1 xsaves dtherm ida arat pln pts hwp hwp_notify hwp_act_window hwp_epp
bugs		:
bogomips	: 5811.73
clflush size	: 64
cache_alignment	: 64
address sizes	: 39 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

processor	: 3
vendor_id	: GenuineIntel
cpu family	: 6
model		: 142
model name	: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7500U CPU @ 2.70GHz
stepping	: 9
microcode	: 0x62
cpu MHz		: 2900.000
cache size	: 4096 KB
physical id	: 0
siblings	: 4
core id		: 1
cpu cores	: 2
apicid		: 3
initial apicid	: 3
fpu		: yes
fpu_exception	: yes
cpuid level	: 22
wp		: yes
flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc art arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc cpuid aperfmperf tsc_known_freq pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 sdbg fma cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm abm 3dnowprefetch cpuid_fault intel_pt tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid fsgsbase tsc_adjust bmi1 avx2 smep bmi2 erms invpcid mpx rdseed adx smap clflushopt xsaveopt xsavec xgetbv1 xsaves dtherm ida arat pln pts hwp hwp_notify hwp_act_window hwp_epp
bugs		:
bogomips	: 5811.19
clflush size	: 64
cache_alignment	: 64
address sizes	: 39 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

lspcmcia

Nothing.

xinput

list

⎡ Virtual core pointer                          id=2    [master pointer  (3)]
⎜   ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer                id=4    [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad                id=12   [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard                         id=3    [master keyboard (2)]
    ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard               id=5    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Power Button                              id=6    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Video Bus                                 id=7    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Power Button                              id=8    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Sleep Button                              id=9    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard              id=11   [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ SuYin USB2.0 RGBIR Camera: SuYi           id=10   [slave  keyboard (3)]

list-props 12

Device 'SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad':
        Device Enabled (142):   1
        Coordinate Transformation Matrix (144): 1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000
        libinput Tapping Enabled (277): 0
        libinput Tapping Enabled Default (278): 0
        libinput Tapping Drag Enabled (279):    1
        libinput Tapping Drag Enabled Default (280):    1
        libinput Tapping Drag Lock Enabled (281):       0
        libinput Tapping Drag Lock Enabled Default (282):       0
        libinput Tapping Button Mapping Enabled (283):  1, 0
        libinput Tapping Button Mapping Default (284):  1, 0
        libinput Natural Scrolling Enabled (285):       0
        libinput Natural Scrolling Enabled Default (286):       0
        libinput Left Handed Enabled (287):     0
        libinput Left Handed Enabled Default (288):     0
        libinput Accel Speed (289):     0.142349
        libinput Accel Speed Default (290):     0.000000
        libinput Scroll Methods Available (291):        1, 1, 0
        libinput Scroll Method Enabled (292):   1, 0, 0
        libinput Scroll Method Enabled Default (293):   1, 0, 0
        libinput Send Events Modes Available (262):     1, 1
        libinput Send Events Mode Enabled (263):        0, 0
        libinput Send Events Mode Enabled Default (264):        0, 0
        libinput Disable While Typing Enabled (294):    0
        libinput Disable While Typing Enabled Default (295):    1
        Device Node (265):      "/dev/input/event8"
        Device Product ID (266):        2, 7
        libinput Drag Lock Buttons (296):       <no items>
        libinput Horizontal Scroll Enabled (297):       1

v4l2-dbg -D

Driver info:
        Driver name   : uvcvideo
        Card type     : SuYin USB2.0 RGBIR Camera: SuYi
        Bus info      : usb-0000:00:14.0-4
        Driver version: 4.13.8
        Capabilities  : 0x84200001
                Video Capture
                Streaming
                Extended Pix Format
                Device Capabilities

In Closing

So far, it seems to be solid hardware let down by its shitty touchpad. I will see over the next year how durable it is.

@luispabon
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Thank you for the information 👍

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