Kubuntu Focus has been selling Linux-powered laptops for a long time, and now the company has revealed a new high-end model. The Kubuntu Focus M2 Gen 6 is packed with features and performance, but it’s not cheap.
TheFocus M2has the form factor of a gaming laptop, with a large 16-inch 2560x1600 240Hz screen, a backlit keyboard with a number pad, and a whole lot of ports. One side of the laptop has two Thunderbolt 4 ports, a USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A connector, a microSD card reader, and a Kensington lock. The other side has another USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A port and a combo audio jack, and on the back, there’s an HDMI 2.0 port with HDPC and 2.5G Ethernet connector.
Powering the laptop is an Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX processor, complete with eight performance cores and 16 efficient cores. For graphics, you get an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti graphics card, with the option to use the Intel integrated graphics when battery life matters more than performance. There are also two PCIe slots for NVMe drives, an 80 Wh battery, Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 5.4, and dual speakers.
As you might guess from the name, this laptop ships withKubuntu 24.04 LTS Linuxout of the box, with open-source utilities for configuring power and fan profiles. you’re able to also install other modern desktop Linux distributions, though the NVIDIA drivers might require extra installation steps on some operating systems. The laptop should also work with Windows, but Kubuntu Focus hasn’t shared any details there.
All that power will cost you: the Focus M2 Gen 6 starts at $2,985. The multi-core CPU benchmarks in Geekbench 6 provided by Kubuntu Focus areroughly on parwith a MacBook Pro using an M3 Max or M4 Pro chipset, the latter of which costsaround $1,800right now. The most direct competitor to the Focus M2 might be theSystem76 Serval WS laptop, which has the same Core Ultra 9 CPU and RTX 5070 Ti graphics card at a similar $2,999 price, and is also designed for running desktop Linux. System76 and Kubuntu Focus are both using modified Clevo laptop designs.
You canbuy the Focus M2 Gen 6from the official store, with a starting price of $2,895.
