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System76 Lemur Pro Linux laptop with 14 hours of battery life

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Re: System76 Lemur Pro Linux laptop with 14 hours of battery life

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Post by alpaca128 »

unrealhoang wrote: post #13
viraptor wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I assure you it's enough to display text correctly in 1080p on 15" which is not considered hidpi. You may like hidpi, and that's fine. But let's keep shifting personal standards and what's practically usable straight.

That’s just simply facts, you can read more here: https://tonsky.me/blog/monitors/

1080p on a 14 inch laptop is the same density as 4k on my 28 inch screen. I have to try really hard to see any imperfections. Under real-world conditions suboptimal lighting & reflections are a bigger issue on a laptop screen than some sub-pixel features of text.

Re: System76 Lemur Pro Linux laptop with 14 hours of battery life

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Post by rawoke083600 »

dugmartin wrote: post #46

I'm wondering with the (permanent?) switch to work from home if laptop sales will go down. I've replaced both my personal and work laptops with System76 Meerkat mini PCs both running stock Unbuntu using Regolith for the desktop environment ( https://system76.com/desktops/meerkat ). They are stacked on top of each other on my desk and take up next to no space. I work from home (and have since 1999) and don't travel fo…

lol in my country (south africa) we got blessed with 'load shedding'. i.e the state owned power utility Eskom, switch of our electricity for 2.5 hours up to x3 a day. As there is not enough capacity.

So one huge advantage of laptops are a)they run on batteries

b) If you do need to run the laptop of an inverter(i dare not say ups) its much easier to power for longer.

Re: System76 Lemur Pro Linux laptop with 14 hours of battery life

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Post by windthrown »

tssva wrote: post #17

I'm not a fan of having my laptop maker's logo plastered on the exterior of my laptop but it is unavoidable these days. The System76 logo on this laptop is an especially egregious example of this. It alone would prevent me from considering purchasing one. I'll be looking elsewhere next year when I am due to upgrade which is unfortunate because I am a fan of Pop!_OS and would otherwise have considered System76. Edit:…

That's a fair stance but also worth mentioning that System76's logo on the Lemur laptop is a sticker and very easy to remove. I removed mine the first day I used it.

Re: System76 Lemur Pro Linux laptop with 14 hours of battery life

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Post by whalesalad »

dugmartin wrote: post #46

I'm wondering with the (permanent?) switch to work from home if laptop sales will go down. I've replaced both my personal and work laptops with System76 Meerkat mini PCs both running stock Unbuntu using Regolith for the desktop environment ( https://system76.com/desktops/meerkat ). They are stacked on top of each other on my desk and take up next to no space. I work from home (and have since 1999) and don't travel fo…

Sorta. I like having flexibility and staying dynamic. I will often jump back and forth between my desk (M1 Mac mini) and my laptop (MacBook pro) to wander around my house on the couch or sometimes outside if the weather is nice.

Having your compute/dev take place on a separate box and using these machines as thin clients helps too. My personal machines are mostly just editors now, not running any hefty code processes.

Re: System76 Lemur Pro Linux laptop with 14 hours of battery life

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Post by acomjean »

encryptluks2 wrote: post #43
2Gkashmiri wrote: post #16

good to see linux being sold in laptop out of the box. this means, hopefully that bugs that the linux community was used to, because everyone knew it and didn't bother fixing are getting fixed because linus managed to break Pop os in the first command. stuff like what kde is doing with their "15-Minute Bugs" are great initiatives. this will definitely help the overall linux software become more rugged and idiot frien…

It is good to see it but a bit ridiculous to see companies marking up the pricing just to install an OS which is pretty simple to do with almost any hardware.

That’s the whole point of it. You get excellent tested comparability and support. For Linux users like me it’s worth the money. I can have Linux and not worry about if my hardware is compatible with the default install.

You are paying for support and to make it easy.

But scale, as they sell more one assumes the markup will decrease.

Re: System76 Lemur Pro Linux laptop with 14 hours of battery life

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Post by quickthrower2 »

ThatMedicIsASpy wrote: post #44
nicce wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It might be enough to show the text, but there is still no enough space on the screen. On 1440p disply for example there is so much more to run apps side by side.

How good is your eyesight? 150%? This is a 14" screen.

Ironically my need for glasses due to old age means I get magnification and can read smaller fonts on smaller screens!

Re: System76 Lemur Pro Linux laptop with 14 hours of battery life

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Post by tejohnso »

pmontra wrote: post #42
unrealhoang wrote: post #6

Non-hiDPI display in 2022 is a non-starter. There’s simply not enough pixels to display text correctly with full hd.

I'm fine with my 15.6" 1080p screen. The reasons I'm not considering this laptop is the lack of 3 physical buttons on the touchpad. It's Linux after all. Left select text, middle paste, no need of ctrl-c and ctrl-v. It's much faster and I'm using it all the time. Btw, I disable touch to click because it tends to move the pointer and generate misclicks.

I'm with you on the lack of physical buttons. That's a no go.

For me the lack of pointing stick is also a no go. My first laptop over twenty years ago was a Toshiba with a pointing stick, and I've used Thinkpads ever since.

Re: System76 Lemur Pro Linux laptop with 14 hours of battery life

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Post by rawoke083600 »

Bromeo wrote: post #28
temac wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do Linux distros support hiDPI including mixed DPI (e.g. with a hiDPI laptop screen and a low DPI external one) well ? Under macOS this works really fine, under Windows this is half garbage.

This is solved well in Wayland, with X11 this is not as straight forward. Wayland comes with some other issues though.

Its Saturday and I got some fighting words leftover from the week/s

Using solved and wayland i. the same sentence is just not right !

Source: nvidia+intel laptop owner.

Wayland+Nvidia: Having it work sometimes under some conditions are not the same as solved. X11 is not flawless either but i feel it works more times under more conditions.

Ok rant over, sorry for sounding like a d*k :)

Re: System76 Lemur Pro Linux laptop with 14 hours of battery life

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Post by forgotpwd16 »

unrealhoang wrote: post #13
viraptor wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I assure you it's enough to display text correctly in 1080p on 15" which is not considered hidpi. You may like hidpi, and that's fine. But let's keep shifting personal standards and what's practically usable straight.

That’s just simply facts, you can read more here: https://tonsky.me/blog/monitors/

The blog post is good in showing that the "non-starter" because cannot "display text correctly" doesn't hold. Specifically it talks about how Macbooks by default utilize fractional scaling that messes up pixel-crisp text. Gonna bet that there's a significant overlap between those that call for ridiculously for their size high res displays yet are fine with those defaults.
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