Laptops – Purism https://puri.sm/ High-quality computers that protect your freedom and privacy Wed, 01 Oct 2025 18:29:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.28 https://puri.sm/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cropped-purism-logo-rectangle-1-32x32.png Laptops – Purism https://puri.sm/ 32 32 Free-Software Purism Game Jam https://puri.sm/posts/free-software-purism-game-jam/ Mon, 03 Jun 2024 17:52:40 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=81850 The first Purism Free Software Game Jam is right around the corner, scheduled for June 10th! This event is designed to promote freedom-respecting software through the creation of video games. Purism understands that it’s not just tools that should be open source; games play a vital role in inspiring the next generation of developers to […]

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]]> From the Hackdesk: Librem 16 https://puri.sm/posts/from-the-hackdesk-librem-16/ Thu, 30 May 2024 21:20:42 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=81812 Today, I’m excited to introduce the prototypes for our latest product, the Librem 16: We’re polishing the details on the Librem 16 design, which carries signature features from Purism as well as many new improvements. The Librem 16 features a backlit keyboard, RGB notification LED, and killswitches for the camera/microphone and Wi-Fi/Bluetooth, just like the […]

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]]> PureOS 10.3 Power Optimization https://puri.sm/posts/pureos-10-3-power-optimization/ Mon, 12 Jun 2023 16:51:02 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=79637 With PureOS 10.3, power saving and new goodies is the name of the game. Most companies abandon hardware soon after launch, but we have a different approach with the Librem 5.  With every upgrade to PureOS we push on the Librem 5, the more the device can do and the more efficient it gets. One […]

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]]> Purism Announcing Director of Product François Téchené https://puri.sm/posts/purism-announcing-director-of-product-francois-techene/ Wed, 17 May 2023 16:58:51 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=79317 It brings me great joy to announce the elevation of a longstanding Purism employee to the critically important role of Director of Product—François Téchené—the second employee hired to Purism. Filling this role accomplishes a lot of things for us; but filling this role with someone of François’s caliber accomplishes all the things we need and […]

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]]> How PureOS Can Stop Devices From Being Infected With Intrusive Adware! https://puri.sm/posts/how-pureos-can-stop-devices-from-being-infected-with-intrusive-adware/ Mon, 24 Apr 2023 22:21:10 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=79111 It has been reported by TechRadar and other publications that over 100 million devices, such as smartphones, have been infected with an intrusive adware that operates in the background without the knowledge of the device owner and/or end user. The intrusive adware has been identified as Goldoson malware by cybersecurity researchers at McAfee and was […]

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]]> Introducing the Lapdock Kit https://puri.sm/posts/introducing-the-lapdock-kit/ Wed, 22 Feb 2023 19:56:44 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=77318 With the Lapdock kit, you can turn your Librem 5 or Librem 5 USA into a PureOS laptop. While your Librem 5 is fully able to run desktop apps on its own, once attached to the Lapdock, you can take advantage of the extra screen space, battery power, and extra ports. Lapdock Benefits The Lapdock […]

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]]> The Danger of Focusing on Specs https://puri.sm/posts/the-danger-of-focusing-on-specs/ Tue, 31 Jan 2023 20:39:11 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=76952 Many years ago I was a sysadmin for a medium-sized tech company, and a fringe benefit of that role was getting first choice at stacks of “obsolete” computers that were about to be thrown away. They say that one man’s trash is another man’s treasure, and that is even truer when the first man ran […]

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]]> Year-End Savings Start Now with $200 off on Librem 14 Laptop https://puri.sm/posts/year-end-savings-start-now-with-200-off-on-librem-14-laptop/ Tue, 01 Nov 2022 17:07:41 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=76250   It is already the year end, and a new year will be knocking at our doors very soon! We’ve seen an incredible response to Librem 14 laptops this year, so we decided to offer a great new promotion, just in time for the holiday season ahead. Use the coupon L14SALE22 when you check out to […]

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]]> My First Year of Librem 5 Convergence https://puri.sm/posts/my-first-year-of-librem-5-convergence/ Mon, 07 Mar 2022 22:27:55 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=74298 It’s hard to believe it’s already been a year since I wrote about My First Week of Librem 5 Convergence: I talked at length in my article Investing in Real Convergence about my decades-long wish to have a single computer I could carry with me that had all of my files, ran all of my […]

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]]> Special Offer on PureBoot Bundle with Anti-Interdiction https://puri.sm/posts/special-offer-on-librem14-aibundle/ Tue, 01 Mar 2022 20:24:33 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=74253   Freedom is essential to security. Purism’s commitment to security and user freedom means we can deliver products and services Big Tech players can’t. We also think security should be convenient and hardware and software should be secure by default. Our approach results in a completely unique combination of security solutions. Security must be anchored in […]

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]]> Video Editing on Linux Featuring Librem 14 https://puri.sm/posts/video-editing-on-linux-featuring-librem-14/ Thu, 27 Jan 2022 01:02:46 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=73887 Video editing is a complex topic with a wide-range of software to choose from. In this series, produced with Gardiner Bryant, we will cover some of the common video editing suites available for Linux. We will then jump into some of the other software that you can choose when producing multimedia content on Linux. Instead of just […]

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]]> To Byzantium and Beyond https://puri.sm/posts/to-byzantium-and-beyond/ Mon, 24 Jan 2022 17:59:57 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=73762 PureOS has had some major changes in 2021 PureOS 10, codename: Byzantium, is the new stable release of PureOS. PureOS 10 is likely not a newcomer to everyone, it’s been around for a while as a rolling release or a “testing” release. It has been shipping on Purism’s new hardware. We’ve moved our kernel forward. […]

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]]> 2021 Year in Review: Design https://puri.sm/posts/2021-year-in-review-design/ Mon, 10 Jan 2022 17:00:31 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=73566 This year, just like the previous years, the Purism design team has been focusing on improving the overall Librem products experience. We took this opportunity to contribute to some amazing upstream projects like Libadwaita for the world to benefit from those modern and respectful technologies. Our goal is to make each Librem product simple and […]

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]]> Librem 14 is Ideal for Enterprise Linux https://puri.sm/posts/librem-14-is-ideal-for-enterprise-linux/ Thu, 06 Jan 2022 21:08:53 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=73588 While many people think of enterprise computers in terms of systems running Windows or MacOS, there have long been millions of enterprise users running a GNU/Linux-based enterprise Linux distribution and entire industries where all employees run Linux. While sometimes this is for philosophical reasons, often it’s also for practical reasons: a Linux desktop is the […]

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]]> High Security Shipping: Anti-interdiction in 2021 https://puri.sm/posts/high-security-shipping-anti-interdiction-in-2021/ Mon, 03 Jan 2022 21:31:47 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=73529 We offer a lot of unique, high-security features at Purism (I discuss the most secure options for the Librem 14 in this post). One of the most interesting things we offer is our anti-interdiction service, an add-on service that we custom-tailor for each customer to add multiple levels of tamper detection to an order. With […]

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]]> My Recommendations for the Most Secure Librem 14 Configuration https://puri.sm/posts/my-recommendations-for-the-most-secure-librem-14-configuration/ Thu, 09 Dec 2021 20:39:50 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=73364 The Librem 14 is our most secure laptop to date. We aim to make the Librem 14 as secure as possible out of the box for the widest range of customers while also taking ease-of-use and overall convenience into account. We also avoid security measures that take control away from you and give it to […]

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]]> Why The Librem 14 with QubesOS Exceeded My Expectations https://puri.sm/posts/why-the-librem-14-with-qubesos-exceeded-my-expectations/ Tue, 07 Dec 2021 21:42:14 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=73331 If you face extreme threats, or even if you are just looking for a high-security operating system for peace of mind, it’s hard to beat QubesOS. While it’s not as easy to use as our default PureOS, it offers a lot of advanced security features that, when combined with the advanced hardware and firmware security […]

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]]> Taking Stock of Librem 14 https://puri.sm/posts/taking-stock-of-librem-14/ Mon, 29 Nov 2021 22:21:17 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=73299 The Librem 14 is the best laptop we’ve made to date and we’ve gotten a lot of positive feedback from customers so far. The increased demand for the Librem 14, combined with supply chain challenges over the last year has meant delays and longer lead times for new orders. For those of you who have […]

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]]> New PureBoot Feature: Scanning Root for Tampering https://puri.sm/posts/new-pureboot-feature-scanning-root-for-tampering/ Thu, 14 Oct 2021 15:53:17 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=73014 With the latest PureBoot R19 pre-release we have added a number of new changes including improved GUI workflows and new security features and published a ROM image so the wider community can test it before it turns into the next stable release. To test it, existing PureBoot users can download the R19-pre1 .rom file that […]

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]]> Announcing a New Video Series: Video Editing with Linux https://puri.sm/posts/announcing-a-new-video-series-video-editing-with-linux/ Tue, 21 Sep 2021 17:12:52 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=72859 When we were designing the Librem 14, we wanted it to be our dream laptop in all possible respects. This meant squeezing the most resources we could fit in there that could run coreboot and PureBoot. We settled on a tenth generation Intel i7 10710U CPU with 6 cores and 12 threads and combined with […]

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]]> Qubes Now A Preinstall Option for Librem 14 and Mini https://puri.sm/posts/qubes-now-a-preinstall-option-for-librem-14-and-mini/ Tue, 07 Sep 2021 17:17:48 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=72793 While we default to our own PureOS on our hardware, we have also supported the high-security QubesOS on Purism hardware ever since the Librem 13 v1 became the first hardware officially supported by the Qubes project. Since then we have continued to treat Qubes as a first-class citizen and ensured that it works well on […]

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]]> Defending Against Spyware Like Pegasus https://puri.sm/posts/defending-against-spyware-like-pegasus/ Wed, 21 Jul 2021 13:57:11 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=72531 This has been a busy week for security news, but perhaps the most significant security and privacy story to break this week (if not this year), is about how NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware has been used by a number of governments to infect and spy on journalists and activists and even heads of state by […]

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]]> Wrangling the EC: Adventures in Power Sequencing https://puri.sm/posts/wrangling-the-ec-adventures-in-power-sequencing/ Fri, 28 May 2021 20:55:10 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=71989 As we outlined in a previous post, the Librem 14 is the first Purism laptop to ship with our new, free software Librem-EC firmware for the laptop’s embedded controller (EC). This was a big undertaking, and as with any effort of this magnitude, issues arise in corner cases that often don’t show themselves during developmental […]

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]]> Guest Post: Librem 14, Librem Keys, and Qubes OS https://puri.sm/posts/guest-post-librem-14-librem-keys-and-qubes-os/ Thu, 27 May 2021 16:19:28 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=71972 Editor’s Note: This is a guest blog post by Anthony J. Martinez republished with his permission. You can view the original blog post here. With the arrival of my second Librem Key, I thought now would be a good time to go over how I use Qubes OS features along with some more products from […]

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]]> Gaming on the Librem 14 https://puri.sm/posts/gaming-on-the-librem-14/ Tue, 25 May 2021 22:56:24 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=71867 Gaming on the Librem 14 is respectful, ad-free, and covers most game classes at no upfront or monthly cost, all while protecting your data.

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]]> What’s new in PureOS 10 https://puri.sm/posts/whats-new-in-pureos-10/ Mon, 24 May 2021 15:57:41 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=71380  The Librem 14 comes with new software — here’s some of the new things coming your way PureOS 10 is going to be our new release for the Librem 14, Librem 5, and Librem Mini. You may already be familiar with its code name “Byzantium” but what happens next is that it moves to our […]

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]]> Best Qubes Laptop is the Secure Librem 14 https://puri.sm/posts/best-qubes-laptop-is-the-secure-librem-14/ Fri, 23 Apr 2021 19:47:34 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=71654 Update 2021-04-26: We’ve gotten some questions in response to this post about Qubes support on our laptops. To clarify, while we offer Qubes as an OS option, we do not yet pre-install it. This is simply because Qubes does not yet offer an “OEM install” method like with PureOS where we could set up disk […]

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]]> Librem 14 Begins Shipping https://puri.sm/posts/librem-14-begins-shipping/ Fri, 16 Apr 2021 15:19:37 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=71553 We set out on a multi-year journey to build our dream laptop - the Librem 14 - and today that dream is reality and is shipping.

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]]> Librem 14 Rave https://puri.sm/posts/librem-14-rave/ Thu, 08 Apr 2021 17:14:04 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=71454 Now that shipping of the Librem 14 to customers is imminent we should talk about some more details and enhancements we made.

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]]> Librem 14 Security Features https://puri.sm/posts/librem-14-security-features/ Mon, 22 Mar 2021 19:54:27 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=71317 The Librem 14 was designed based on a long wishlist we made to build our dream laptop. When we first announced the Librem 14 we stuck to the features we knew for sure would be part of the first revision.

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