Prices as of March 22nd based off my own observations.
System76 (base prices, not including addons)
- Lemur Pro: $1400
- Pangolin: $1300
Purism (base prices, not including shipping and that Purism is a shady company)
- Librem 11: $1000 (a literal tablet)
- Librem 14: $1370
- Librem Key: $60 (A USB)
Tuxedo (base prices, not including shipping costs to burgerland) (based in Germany)
- TUXEDO Aura 14 - Gen3: 840 EUR
- TUXEDO Pulse 14 - Gen3: 1238 EUR
- TUXEDO InfinityBook Pro 14 - Gen8: 1419 EUR
Slimbook (Based in Spain, base prices no shipping or taxes)
- Elemental 14 Intel i5 1235U: 600 EUR
- Excalibur 16 AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS: 1200 EUR
- Executive 14 Intel i7 13700H Black: 1400 EUR
Framework (base prices, but addons usually add $90-150)
- Framework 13 (AMD and Intel): $850
Minifree Ltd (Run by a trans fem in the UK, very cool brand)
- Libreboot 820 (1920x1080 IPS Screen Intel Core i5-5200U, 1 TB SSD): £378.00.
- Libreboot T440p (1920x1080, 4 core, 1 TB SSD): £558.00.
- Libreboot W541, (15.6″, 4-core Intel i7-4800MQ, 1920x1080, 1 TB SSD): £698.00.
Asahi Linux (from Refurbished Apple Store)
- 13.3-inch MacBook Air Apple M1 8gb RAM 256 GB SSD: $760
My current laptop
- Lenovo Yoga 6 2-in-1 AMD 13.3 inch 8 GB RAM (the one with the weird denim texture in the front): $450 from a Best Buy which has a battery life of 7-8 hours.
Note that these are just retail prices, obviously the best way to score good tech is to always buy refurbished laptops from reputable resell sites (used thinkpads rock). I just wanted to point out the absolute state of Linux (TM) laptops. It's pretty disheartening that a lot of Linux laptops are clearly geared towards software engineers who have the money to splurge online.
Until this changes, your best bet is to hunt for windows laptops that are reported to have a good track record with Linux and perform the sorcery there. But that also makes Linux an obscure option for a lot of people. since hardware support is either hit or miss (or distro specific).
The HP Dev One was pretty reasonable at $1000 and hardware support built out with help from system76. So of course they killed it after like 9 months.
The pinebook pro just doesn't have the guts for most people to be happy with it (rk3399 so 6 core BIGlittle architecture. not horrible but struggles to run modern massive webapps). But if you want a little ARM-book that is as FOSS as possible it's okayish at $200 or less. I found the screen and keyboard and overall feel to be pretty good. Speakers and power management chip both pretty bad.
but like yeah point taken, the landscape is pretty poor still, requires a lot of research to see what has good compatibility, or splurge on something like you listed, or accept major tradeoffs
Don't buy HP. It is on the BDS boycott list.
Ah very good point. Luckily you can't buy one anyhow. I just happened to have experience using one that was mostly positive