The Serval WS from System76: A Linux Workstation Running PopOS
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The Serval WS from System76: A Linux Workstation Running PopOS
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Re: The Serval WS from System76: A Linux Workstation Running PopOS
#2Not so much a laptop as a desktop machine you can fold and put away when you're done with it.
Re: The Serval WS from System76: A Linux Workstation Running PopOS
#3Not so much a laptop as a desktop machine you can fold and put away when you're done with it.
Yeah, it's in the category of "portable desktops". Still useful even if you only use it at home. Moving a desktop is a lot of work, moving this kind of machine from one room to another is easy.
Re: The Serval WS from System76: A Linux Workstation Running PopOS
#4> As far as financing is concerned, you’ll pay a monthly fee. For the Serval, right now you can pay as little as $113 per month for 18 months, with 11.99% APR. You’ll need to fill in a credit application through Klarna in order to do so.
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Re: The Serval WS from System76: A Linux Workstation Running PopOS
#5> As far as financing is concerned, you’ll pay a monthly fee. For the Serval, right now you can pay as little as $113 per month for 18 months, with 11.99% APR. You’ll need to fill in a credit application through Klarna in order to do so. Is this a review or an advertisement?
The article's only as interesting as it's topic.
Re: The Serval WS from System76: A Linux Workstation Running PopOS
#6As a former user of System76 laptops: they are not very lightweight and the keyboards are not very durable.
You better get a bag with wheels if you plan on having one.
Re: The Serval WS from System76: A Linux Workstation Running PopOS
#7Does System76 make a laptop with a high dpi screen? It seems that is table stakes these days...Seems like this is a pretty expensive laptop (portable desktop), but perhaps for gaming it's not a big deal. However, if you are programming or doing some other text intensive activity the low-dpi screens would be deal breaker.
Re: The Serval WS from System76: A Linux Workstation Running PopOS
#8Not so much a laptop as a desktop machine you can fold and put away when you're done with it.
Yeah, it's in the category of "portable desktops". Still useful even if you only use it at home. Moving a desktop is a lot of work, moving this kind of machine from one room to another is easy.
Is it sturdy? I have an old Dell that’s gone 6+ years
Re: The Serval WS from System76: A Linux Workstation Running PopOS
#9As a former user of System76 laptops: they are not very lightweight and the keyboards are not very durable. You better get a bag with wheels if you plan on having one.
Nowadays they have a number of normal weight models. My 2019 darter weights 1.6kg, and it looks like the new lemur/galago are 1.1 and 1.41kg respectively.
Not ultralight but fairly average.
Re: The Serval WS from System76: A Linux Workstation Running PopOS
#10Does System76 make a laptop with a high dpi screen? It seems that is table stakes these days...Seems like this is a pretty expensive laptop (portable desktop), but perhaps for gaming it's not a big deal. However, if you are programming or doing some other text intensive activity the low-dpi screens would be deal breaker.
THIS. Plenty of kinda nice Linux laptops out there, but with a terrible, terrible screen. For example, a MBP 13" has 2x resolution than this 15". This is a monumental deal breaker for the majority of people.