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Re: RogueBots

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Post by akulbe »

eropple wrote: post #7
k_sze wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But their laptops are still ugly. Industrial design is hard, I get it. But still, at those prices...

They also don't make their own laptops. Their Bonobo top-end model is a Sager/Clevo. I've never had it explained to me why buying from System76 instead of Sager or Clevo makes sense, but there you go.

Isn't it true that nobody makes their own laptops, though?

I thought $COMPANY does the design and then it goes to one of three (or is it four?) ODMs for manufacturing. Is that not the case?

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Post by alexlarsson »

markbnj wrote: post #20

I've got a recently purchased System 76 Gazelle. I'd like to say nice things about it. It has good system software, and not a bad display. That's about it. The case build quality is way below what it needs to be at the price point, and the touchpad is probably the flimsiest thing I've ever seen on a laptop. The keyboard is also horrible. I would not purchase another one. Instead I would go for a Thinkpad or a Dell an…

Thats sad. I would like to support hardware companies supporting FOSS.

Has anyone tried the purism laptops: https://puri.sm/products/

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Post by eropple »

akulbe wrote: post #21
eropple wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They also don't make their own laptops. Their Bonobo top-end model is a Sager/Clevo. I've never had it explained to me why buying from System76 instead of Sager or Clevo makes sense, but there you go.

Isn't it true that nobody makes their own laptops, though? I thought $COMPANY does the design and then it goes to one of three (or is it four?) ODMs for manufacturing. Is that not the case?

System76 doesn't do the design, as near as I can tell. Their laptops are literally-literally Sager/Clevo models.

Re: RogueBots

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Post by eropple »

brianwawok wrote: post #16
eropple wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They also don't make their own laptops. Their Bonobo top-end model is a Sager/Clevo. I've never had it explained to me why buying from System76 instead of Sager or Clevo makes sense, but there you go.

Ubuntu tech support. You can't email Sager and ask how to fix a kernel panic for their laptop.

I guess that's true. Given the hardware commonality, though, I bet you can just go online.

Re: RogueBots

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Post by lathiat »

I love what these guys are doing in general, and I really want to support them, but the industrial design of these machines is so almost literally 2005.

One of their guys was on the Linux Unplugged podcast this week talking about the 4K ORYX and getting canonical to tweak the 4K support (which was needed, in unity it was a bit wonky)

They seem to have good offerings if you want a big desktop replacement but their thin and light (eg lemur) look dreadful.

I hope they can manage to source something a little nicer on the portable end.

Re: RogueBots

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Post by brianwawok »

eropple wrote: post #25
brianwawok wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ubuntu tech support. You can't email Sager and ask how to fix a kernel panic for their laptop.

I guess that's true. Given the hardware commonality, though, I bet you can just go online.

Supposedly System76 has some extra bios and driver magic to fix some things. I am not sure how true it is. I am very curious though, not sure what to get for my next ubuntu laptop. (Done with macs, need 64GB ram in next laptop).
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