And you are here why?

My main laptop is a 15” 2015 Retina MBP/OSX, and I do most of my linux work via Vagrant and/or AWS.   The Lemur  exists mainly for build/test work and making sure that "stuff" still works for our non-MBP developers That said, in no particular order - Ubuntu Just Works out of the box.  Which is, maybe, the single most important thing that I cared about.  No fiddling, no messing around.  Just worked.  Sooo, mission accomplished in that sense. What the heck is going on with the weird battery bump?  it tilts the keyboard up just fine on a desk, but gets very weird  if you're typing with the laptop on your legs. The whole things feels sort of plasticky. Not in a *bad* way, but in the same way most android phone feels somewhat plasticky as compared to an iPhone The keys also  have a slightly plasticky feel.  Again, not in a bad way - they’re actually quite good. Come to think of it, the "plastic-y" feel I'm referring to is...

Its the EUROCOM panther  4.0 12.1 lbs of 17" goodness, in a case that hearkens back to the glory days of the 90s. You can slap in 4 (count them! 4!) hard drives, and by the way, its about infinitely upgrade-able, but starts at around $2.5K Snark aside, I am kinda baffled - why would I want this?  About the only reason I can think of is that I'm going to end up somewhere without a (functional) network connection, and don't have access to well, any of the cloud services that I use. Then again, maybe its aimed at folks in the DoD?  Security restrictions, etc.? Puzzled...