Should Tp4 buy a laptop now?

The intel's new x358 looks nice, buhhhh, Tp4 is iffy on the support, and of course the $1500 price right now seems ridiculously high for what you get.

Refurb, Lunar lake actually has pretty good pricing, basically pre-crisis pricing. $800ish, problem is Tp4 would love to have at least double the 140v's gpu power


Then theres discreeeet, buhhh, anything with a 5070ti is $1500+

There's 5070 refurb for $1200ish,  This might be the sweet spot, but then again, 8gb vram, disgusted.

bad time to buy if you ask me. and all interesting games i've seen recently are just easy to run indie games anyway. just get something convenient and well designed for portable use.

For anyone interested, an R2 small batch GB for the Light Base kit ran from 27 Feb through 2 March 2026. Although it's over, extras may be available from some vendors.

Vendors:

US: Novelkeys
EU: Oblotzky
UK: Prototypist
Southeast Asia: iLumKB
China: KBDFans
KR: Geonworks

Only one kit this time:

For anyone interested, R2 is running 6 through 27 March 2026.

Vendors:

US: Novelkeys
EU: Oblotzky
UK: Prototypist
Southeast Asia: iLumKB
China: KBDFans
KR: Geonworks

Only Full Base kit this time:

Early March Update

Halfway through Cerakoating - I think this firmly pushes us back past fulfilment on time, so my apologies for this, I'd expect at least another month to finish cerakoating the cases.
We still need to engrave the weights and make the aluminum plates.
Carbon fiber plate samples are enroute
Hotswap PCB protos received

Please bear with us, sorry again for delays.

Majority of the vendors are live! Thank you to those who joined in on day 1, the support is very appreciated 

If you haven't joined in yet, please consider grabbing this green take on a classic and getting some rizzsters!!!