Laptop equivalent of macbook pro for Trisquel in 2015 ?

Hello and welcome! The hardware question is always tricky, especially so if you use a fully free distro. I guess the by far easiest option would be to get a laptop from Thinkpenguin, they have a banner ad on this page on the right side column. Click that banner and Trisquel will get a part of the profits from your purchase.

If you decide to go for other options, usually the parts that'll give you the most trouble are wifi and the GPU.

There is a hardware database but the contents are unreliable because vendors change components in devices without changing the model names of products... https://www.h-node.org/

You want this laptop with an i7 processor, up to 8 hours usage, 16GB of RAM, 500GB SSD and a 3840x2160 display: https://www.crowdsupply.com/purism/librem-laptop

That configuration would cost you US$ 2484. You can make it cheaper... or even more expensive (with 32 GB of RAM and 2x1TB SSD!).

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/purism-librem-15-review wrote:

One of the first things you will notice when looking at the Librem 15 is just how many design cues seem to be taken from Macbooks. There is the metal-tone case and the black backlit island keyboard and a number of times when I had the laptop out in public I was asked whether it was a Mac.

The laptop is shipped with Trisquel. Everything (in particular the Wifi) will perfectly work.

Todd Weaver (the man behind this project) wants Intel to support coreboot (a free BIOS) for this laptop. It will certainly never happen (and no laptop with a free BIOS is high-end; quite the opposite in fact). Read this thread for more information: https://trisquel.info/fr/forum/librem-15-freelibre-and-open-source-laptop-respects-your-essential-freedoms

Notice however that the discussion about the graphics is outdated: the Librem 15 will use the "Intel Iris Pro Graphics 5200" chipset (no other option) that Linux-libre (hence Trisquel) perfectly handles.

What about wood instead of Aluminium? Accidently found a link to this open hardware project offering a high end laptop with handcrafted wood casing while checking on Ben Nanonote.

http://mottweilerstudio.com/novena-laptop-computer-design/

https://www.crowdsupply.com/kosagi/novena-open-laptop

Dear all - thanks for these amazing suggestions. They all look good, but purism option is exactly what I was looking for. I hope they get the funding!

How does https://www.thinkpenguin.com/catalog/notebook-computers-gnu-linux-2 serve you? There isn't a crowdfunding campaign to wait for.

Not that the wait should drive anyone, especially if one wants a Macesque device, away from Librem.

thanks davidnotcoulthard - the thinkpenguin computers are indeed better priced, but the design is not as good...I have to see if I can wait and put the extra bucks!!

Their is today more or less impossible to get a MBP 15 inch laptop replacement. All other laptops have 16x9 screen and a numpad that moves the keyboard and mousepad so it isnt in line with the screen. And other laptop developers wonder why people like Apples hardware.