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Re: Ask HN: Linux laptop for developers with a reasonable budget?

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Post by phaus »

a3n wrote: post #5
deangiberson wrote: post #4

I have a 1yr old System76 Galago UltraPro. I like it, works well, fairly quiet. Purchasing experience was good, even with importing to Canada. My two problems are 1) it will occasionally (once every 2 months) experience a power loss and reset the laptop. No clue as to what's happening, so infrequent that I don't care to look too deep, 2) the wrist rest finish is rubbing off in the corners, looks dirty, but it's just…

Anecdote: a colleague bought a system 76 and hated the keyboard, returned it. It wasn't an issue with where the keys were placed, he just didn't like the way the keyboard itself felt, or the way it made him feel, or something. Try to fondle one before just buying one blindly online.

Their keyboards are notorious for being just plain defective. The issue with the Ultrapro was that it would randomly drop keystrokes if you tried typing at a decent rate. Some people might not have had this issue, but it was nearing epidemic proportions when this laptop was released. They released an "improved" keyboard which was really just the same one with a metal strip on the back of it which made it feel like less of a piece of shit, but didn't really solve the problem.

I wanted to support system76, but their laptops are re-branded clevos, and clevos almost universally have shitty build quality.

Re: Ask HN: Linux laptop for developers with a reasonable budget?

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Post by codegeek »

phaus wrote: post #11
a3n wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Anecdote: a colleague bought a system 76 and hated the keyboard, returned it. It wasn't an issue with where the keys were placed, he just didn't like the way the keyboard itself felt, or the way it made him feel, or something. Try to fondle one before just buying one blindly online.

Their keyboards are notorious for being just plain defective. The issue with the Ultrapro was that it would randomly drop keystrokes if you tried typing at a decent rate. Some people might not have had this issue, but it was nearing epidemic proportions when this laptop was released. They released an "improved" keyboard which was really just the same one with a metal strip on the back of it which made it feel like le…

yes i had the same issue. I highly recommend not buying System76 unless they have improved significantly in last 12 months. I was bitten so bad by their keyboard issue that I wrote a whole post on it. http://yashchandra.com/2014/05/06/do-not-buy-system76-develo...
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