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Comment by eptcyka | Hacker News Reader

Given my previous, ongoing experience with receiving a product from Librem, will this also take years to be shipped after taking payment?

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Still waiting on a Librem 5 from 2019, while the Puri.sm site claims it takes 52 weeks to deliver new orders. Draw your own conclusions.

Did you hear about the global supply chain problems? Even Apple suffers from that: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/oct/28/apple-ear....

(I am waiting for my Librem 5 too by the way!)

Edit: Their estimate for the new orders comes from the information from the CPU suppliers, which say the same thing. Every time they can get the CPUs, they ship another bunch of phones. See also: https://forums.puri.sm/t/estimate-your-librem-5-shipping/112....

Purism's shipping claims and estimates have been way way off even before there were any supply chain issues. At one point they even lied to be shipping devices, with pictures from the devices "in the wild", when it later turned out to be prototypes given to some employees.

> Purism's shipping claims and estimates have been way way off even before there were any supply chain issues

This is true, and they had good reasons for that in my opinion: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/community-wiki/-/wikis/Freque....

> At one point they even lied to be shipping devices

Yes, it did happen: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/community-wiki/-/wikis/Freque....

To be fair, I put down the money knowing that I might lose it and not receive anything. I ordered mine at the start of 2019, I do not have my hopes up.

Since a few months, they have laptops in stock, so shipping occurs within 10 days.

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