I received my Purism Librem 15 2K a little less than a week ago. I've been punishing it the last few days, trying to make the most out of it. Even while writing this article, I'm syncing my BitCoin wallet while building Suricata in a bhyve instance.
I bought the 2K version of the Purism Librem 15. Purism was clearing out old stock. I had enough BitCoin to be able to buy the Librem 15 2K fully in BitCoin.
My previous laptop was a Lenovo Y50-70 with 16GB RAM. I bought it two years ago to have a dedicated laptop on which to develop HardenedBSD. Around a month later, I switched employers and ended up using my personal laptop for HardenedBSD development, personal use, and work. That laptop has been through hell and back. The back plate is missing multiple screws and the fan is slowly going out. It was a great laptop, with a quadcore Haswell Intel CPU. Speedy and powerful. I'm about to go back to school, so now that I have the Purism Librem 15, I've put