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I actually got a Lemur Pro for work, and I really love it. I had an XPS 13 2020 Dev Edition for about 2 months, and long story short, Dell support sucks, and we decided to return the device, and went with a Lemur Pro as the replacement.

Pros: - Great battery life, I develop in typescript currently and am getting a full day of battery

- Using a dock, I can get up to 3 displays, maybe four if I try with the on-board HDMI port

- Charges with USB-C with up to 65W, so one cable for everything.

- Full sized USB A ports for quick flash drive access

- Typing on the keyboard is very solid (however I do have one con listed below)

- Can turn off camera via software (with Pop_OS)

- Linux from the get-go

- Came packaged pretty well

- Lots of goodies came along. Pins, stickers, etc. Not everyone will care but I thought it was a nice touch

- Recyclable box, plastics, tc came in the packaging.

- It's SUPER light

- Good amount of customization in my opinion

- Has another m.2 slot you can put your own or buy it configured and filled up

Cons:

- Regardless of configured RAM, first slot is always 8gb, so anything beyond 16gb total will always be non-dual-channel. Believe this is soldered.

- Touchpad could be bigger

- I believe the max brightness is something around 300 or 350 nits, which may cause issues when working outside, haven't had the opportunity to because of COVID

- The keyboard has pg_up and pg_down on top of left and right keys, which is rather obnoxious and I wish they would have went with pg_up and pg_down for fn + arrow instead.

- Possible con for people: SD card slot is only micro, not full sized

- Only one USB-C port

- No thunderbolt

- Power button is unintuitive imo, but I'm nitpicking at this point

- Compared to the dell, the bezels are a bit larger than I like, but again, nitpicking/doesn't really bother me



Thanks for the awesome review I appreciate it




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