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System76 Galago Pro [video]

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Re: System76 Galago Pro [video]

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Post by schmichael »

2bluesc wrote: post #12

As a previous gen System 76 Galago and now a proud Dell Precision 5510 owner, I wish them luck! I traded my previous gen System76 Galago Pro after 2-3 years of being disappointed with build quality, battery life also piss poor BIOS support for a company priding themselves on supporting the hardware (i.e. UEFI had to be hacked in from the identical Clevo, next to no options, no TPM, etc). We need more competitors in t…

I had a similarly bad experience with System76 build quality. Back to Thinkpads for me.

That ethernet port they show broke after relatively light usage. I can't believe they haven't fixed that design flaw yet. I guess wired connections are rare enough maybe no one notices.

The screen rubbing on the keyboard when closed and causing bright spots was definitely the worst part for me. I don't want to have to be dainty with a laptop.

Re: System76 Galago Pro [video]

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Post by Freak_NL »

TenOhms wrote: post #15
digikata wrote: post #8

Other than that power button on the side, that laptop looks pretty interesting as a Macbook air replacement. Here's hoping maybe it's not a power button, that it's a hard power shutoff for camera/mic peripherals.

Yes, very silly place for a power button if you ask me. It will get pressed accidentally by virtually everyone who picks it up and moves it, or uses it, or bumps it into the side of something.

You can configure the power button to do whatever you want it to do of course. I think the default behaviour in Ubuntu's Unity is to show the shutdown menu (shutdown, reboot, suspend, or hibernate), not simply suspend the laptop right there and then.

Plenty of laptops have a power button on the side now. Lenovo's Yoga series does this too.

Re: System76 Galago Pro [video]

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Post by mstefff »

2bluesc wrote: post #12

As a previous gen System 76 Galago and now a proud Dell Precision 5510 owner, I wish them luck! I traded my previous gen System76 Galago Pro after 2-3 years of being disappointed with build quality, battery life also piss poor BIOS support for a company priding themselves on supporting the hardware (i.e. UEFI had to be hacked in from the identical Clevo, next to no options, no TPM, etc). We need more competitors in t…

Same situation. Had a System 76 Lemur Ultra for 3 years and hated it after 6 months. The battery had to be replaced every 10-12 months. The build quality was appalling. Everything was falling apart. The finish and keys were coming off. HDMI never worked. WIFI problems every day. It was really a piece of garbage. I'd be embarrassed to sell those.

Just got a Dell XPS 13 for about the same price I paid for the System 76 piece of junk. It's an amazing computer.

Re: System76 Galago Pro [video]

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Post by shmageggy »

schmichael wrote: post #21
2bluesc wrote: post #12

As a previous gen System 76 Galago and now a proud Dell Precision 5510 owner, I wish them luck! I traded my previous gen System76 Galago Pro after 2-3 years of being disappointed with build quality, battery life also piss poor BIOS support for a company priding themselves on supporting the hardware (i.e. UEFI had to be hacked in from the identical Clevo, next to no options, no TPM, etc). We need more competitors in t…

I had a similarly bad experience with System76 build quality. Back to Thinkpads for me. That ethernet port they show broke after relatively light usage. I can't believe they haven't fixed that design flaw yet. I guess wired connections are rare enough maybe no one notices. The screen rubbing on the keyboard when closed and causing bright spots was definitely the worst part for me. I don't want to have to be dainty wi…

Regretful galago owner here on a permanently plugged in laptop with a broken Ethernet port and a bunch of little felt pads lining the sides of my screen to prevent rubbing. Hopefully the new ones are better.

Re: System76 Galago Pro [video]

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Post by shmageggy »

phaus wrote: post #10

Is this something new or is it another rebranded Clevo? The Galago Ultrapro they released a couple of years ago had amazing specs, but the keyboard had a design flaw they refused to fix properly. Some Clevos are OK, but many of them have design defects and/or poor QC.

If we are talking about the same machine, where the keyboard would just not register key presses about 5% of the time, they did eventually ship out free replacement keyboards to all owners.

Re: System76 Galago Pro [video]

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Post by Freak_NL »

2bluesc wrote: post #12

As a previous gen System 76 Galago and now a proud Dell Precision 5510 owner, I wish them luck! I traded my previous gen System76 Galago Pro after 2-3 years of being disappointed with build quality, battery life also piss poor BIOS support for a company priding themselves on supporting the hardware (i.e. UEFI had to be hacked in from the identical Clevo, next to no options, no TPM, etc). We need more competitors in t…

Four year plus owner of a Gazelle here. The only thing that is 'wrong' with it is the battery (dead). Since I use the laptop on power exclusively this doesn't bother me. I could have replaced it though. All in all it is a very powerful and very nice laptop.

Every time I look at a future replacement for this one I get stuck with this dilemma:

System76.com:

+ I know that the laptop I buy will work with Linux; no painstaking research needed

+ configuring the laptop the way I want it is a breeze. 32GiB RAM? No problem

- Import tariffs and shipping costs (I live in the EU)

- So-so build quality

Dell:

+ Local representation, no tariffs

+ Easier to get support here in the EU

- Minimal configurability

- Actually finding an XPS with Ubuntu in their shop

This last point seems trivial, but I just can't figure out why Dell's website is so completely unusable and stuck in the nineties! Searching for the XPS with Ubuntu gives me a list of XPS laptops that differ in subtle ways. Some I can configure bits of, some are a fixed configuration. There is no simple way to filter their offerings, and on-line I find references to XPS configurations that mysteriously aren't available in the Netherlands — what a mess.

Compare that with System76 to see the huge disparity there.

Re: System76 Galago Pro [video]

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Post by lmm »

oneeyedpigeon wrote: post #6
eumoria wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

but it is a fun comic jab at apple. ::zooms in on ethernet port::

Don't all 'ultrabooks' ship without an ethernet port nowadays?

My previous one (Samsung NXPsomething) needed a dongle but it came in the box. My current one (Microsoft Surface Book) doesn't have one on the device itself but there's one on the official dock which is the best place for it anyway.

Re: System76 Galago Pro [video]

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Post by jethro_tell »

symlinkk wrote: post #18

> 13" HiDPI display Hope it doesn't need fractional DPI scaling, because as far as I know there is no desktop on Linux that supports it, while Windows has supported it for years.

I thought gnome was able to do this alright in recent releases but I haven't used it for a while.

Re: System76 Galago Pro [video]

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Post by jethro_tell »

Freak_NL wrote: post #25
dorfsmay wrote: post #14

No TrackPoint, which makes it unusable for me.

Also no serial RS232 port, no SCSI port, not even a floppy drive. /s

To be fair, a track point has to go right in the middle of the keyboard to be of any value. A USB serial is functional as a dongle for the subset of people that need that. Same for floppy and scsi for that matter.
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