Since the article contains a wealth of info on the internals, I'll just give a quick overview of the hardware itself: Instead, it's a Kubuntu-branded version of the Schenker Key 15. This laptop is not actually manufactured by Kubuntu or Mindshare Management. The laptop isn't quite as thin as the MacBook Pro, but the overall styling isn't garish, like the first version of the Focus was.įor an even deeper dive, this article on the Schenker Key 15 on gets into the hardware and internals.
It's a thin, light laptop with a typical chicklet keyboard, a glass trackpad, and an assortment of different ports and expansion slots. The hardware and design on the Focus is certainly good. If you try match the two spec-for-spec, the Mac is still going to be around ten percent more expensive, but you have to consider the slightly better build quality, the higher quality screen, and other features the Mac provides.
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But if you're willing to pay Apple's steep price, you can expand the boot volume to 8 TB on the MacBook Pro (the Focus offers up to 4 TB combined storage with two 2 TB drives). The SSDs are comparable in performance, and you can configure up to 2 TB in the Focus. The memory in the Focus is slightly faster, but it doesn't make a huge difference in most of my day-to-day work. I don't game too much or use the GPU for AI or Machine Learning, but if you care about those things, having the CUDA cores in the Nvidia GPU and other Nvidia-specific features might be helpful. The GPUs are also similar in spec but the Focus I tested has a lot more VRAM. The processors are extremely similar, though the MacBook Pro has a 9th generation CPU versus the 10th generation CPU in the Focus. I just wanted to see if a laptop that's built to be, and I quote, a 'PC Laptop to beat the MacBook Pro,' could really replace my Mac in my day-to-day workflow. The folks at Mindshare Management / Kubuntu Focus have not paid me anything for this review, and I'm going to ship them back the laptop now. I'm not keeping this laptop-it's a loaner. VIDEO: Can the Linux-powered Kubuntu Focus M2 replace my MacBook Pro? Review video: Check out the video that goes along with this review: So it wasn't a fair fight, but I could do a lot of things well enough, and every generation of Pi has gotten better.Ī few weeks ago, someone from Mindshare Management asked me if I'd like to do the same test, but this time with an almost one-for-one replacement laptop: the new Kubuntu Focus M2.
Obviously there's a vast difference between a new Core i9 laptop with 32 GB of RAM, a dedicated GPU, and a 2 terabytes of fast storage and a tiny Raspberry Pi running ARM. A few months ago, I replaced my Core i9 MacBook Pro with a Raspberry Pi 4 model B with 8GB of RAM for a day, and I made a video and a blog post about the experience.
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