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Battery life is very good and you have great linux support (including battery charge customization and other options with TLP) It's light, you have a good choice of ports (USB A, VGA, USB C) I think it's still a safe choice especially in the AMD variant wrt the other linux laptops.
Anyways it seems to be significantly more expensive thus I don't think it will become widespread.
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Real investments go to WEC for technology or to F1 for PR and brand strength.
Things might change when teams will have the chance to customize their cars more (mainly motor, batteries)
Edit: they race in very nice locations anyway, that's the only cool thing about the series :p
I don't think it is easy for everyone to take the recipe and replicate it.
I also don't think you can easily use the recipe with homebrewing equipment and obtaing the same output, maybe it could be done with professional scale equipment but I am not sure.
To me is a nice marketing stunt aimed at the homebrew community.
Buying new is often not optimal since the stuff you buy istantly is worth something like 20% less from the moment you buy it.
You pay to avoid the risk of buying an used object, for example, but I'm not sure that buying new is the more efficient choice every time.
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