Hiper (High Perfomance)

2022: Chinese manufacturer begins installing Russian Astra Linux OS on its laptops

On September 26, 2022, it became known about the agreement concluded by the Chinese manufacturer and the electronic engineers Hiper Russian company. "Astra" The agreement provides for the pre-installation of domestic on operating system Astra Linux laptops. Hiper

According to Kommersant, citing a representative of Astra, the first batch of Hiper laptops running Astra Linux will appear in early October 2022. The Hiper Workbook line of laptops will include six models based on Intel Core (i3, i5, i7, i11) or AMD Ryzen 5 processors with 8 or 16 GB of RAM and 256 and 512 GB SSD storage, laptops will be presented in the middle price segment (from 35 thousand rubles).

Chinese manufacturer begins to install Russian OS

In the future, Astra Group plans to expand the range of vendor partners who will offer devices on the Russian platform, as well as increase the number of retail chains where they can be purchased, the company added.

{{quote 'We have been working for the future for 10 years. At this stage, we do not expect serious commercial benefits. For us, the main thing is to show end users that Astra Linux opens up the same opportunities for them as other OSs, and that it is easy to get used to it, - said Anton Rudevsky, director of the department for working with partners of Astra Group, whose words were quoted in the press service. }} According to Citilink Alexei Dashkevich, head of the computer and laptop procurement group, a buying trend has been noticed on the network, the Russian ON publication reports. However, the interlocutor of the newspaper on the IT market said that the buyer can pay attention to a device with a pre-installed Russian OS only if it is sold at an attractive price. Also, the buyer will be able to later change the Russian firmware to pirated, Windows since "for the end consumer Linux is a completely incomprehensible environment."^[1]

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