Any info on how this would stack against a Mac Pro of a similar price?
System76 Launches Threadripper Workstations
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#12System 76 has pretty good customer support and help entry level folks enter the *nix market, which is cool. Their cases are kinda poop quality tho.
Living that case quality story with my System76 laptop as we speak :(
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#13Or build it yourself and save $2000
I bought one of their laptops a few year ago. I needed a new power supply as the cable had frayed that came w/ the unit. I wanted to get the original cable, so I called and asked "what was the original manufacturer" so I could purchase a new power supply. They would not tell me and they wanted approx. $75 for a replacement from System 76. I peeled the sticker System 76 put on the bottom and found out it was a Clevo. Once I had the original Clevo model number I was able to purchase a new power supply, that worked, for $29 plus shipping. In short, hardware was good and performed well, their Linux integration was awesome (camera, wireless and all the other do-dads worked flawlessly), but IMO they are overpriced and their lack of candor about their re-branding put me off quite a bit. If having your Linux run w/out issues on your hardware purchase is important it might be worth it to you spend the extra $$.
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#14System 76 has pretty good customer support and help entry level folks enter the *nix market, which is cool. Their cases are kinda poop quality tho.
Living that case quality story with my System76 laptop as we speak :(
It's not even a System76 case design for the laptops, those are rebranded Clevos.
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#15Or build it yourself and save $2000
They only works if you're building one. If you need to get an entire office setup with these it's actually worth paying to have them prebuilt. Especially if there is a decent support package.
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#16Or build it yourself and save $2000
I just did the math on their entry level model because I didn't believe you, but you're pretty close with that estimate. NewEgg prices:
Threadripper 3960X - $1400
16GB 3200 RAM - $70
256GB NVMe - $70
RX 550 - $70
System76 price = $3700
That said, if you're looking at their higher-end models, I think you still have a fixed ~$2k markup, and so you're looking at something like $10k vs $12k, which isn't a big deal for that sort of customer (does save time, after all).
Side note: I own their AdderWS laptop and am a happy customer.
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#17System 76 has pretty good customer support and help entry level folks enter the *nix market, which is cool. Their cases are kinda poop quality tho.
Can you elaborate on the specific poop? Do they just not hold up?
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#18Please hire a graphical designer.
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#19As far as ads go, this was the most convincing sell I've seen for a high end computer in a long time. Good job to whoever is doing the marketing.
Perhaps to their target market ... I looked at it and thought 'hmmm, 44 seconds to do a simple image transform sounds pretty slow ....'. I assume it was a very high resolution image or thousands of slices or something but without them stating those metrics it was a bit meaningless to me.
edit: OK I downloaded the image and see it's gigantic ... I reckon they should at least hint at that for the folks who are not quite over the threshold of spending the time to do their experiment ...
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Living that case quality story with my System76 laptop as we speak :(
It's not even a System76 case design for the laptops, those are rebranded Clevos.
it could be, because although rebranded clevos make a significant chunk of the market, they often also have some minor design modifications as ordered by the brands,