I like my System76 desktop but I've had plenty of issues with their laptops, and I really dislike a numpad on a laptop.
given the size of the unit it makes sense to have a numpad, no? What would you put instead?
Pangolin – Mobile AMD laptop with Ryzen CPU and Radeon graphics
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Re: Pangolin – Mobile AMD laptop with Ryzen CPU and Radeon graphics
#32Why aren't there any bold laptop manufacturers? This is a 2021 laptop that uses USB-A primarily, a meh panel, and no particular standout design features. Why do I have to get a mac if I want actually good design? System76 should take a risk and truly make an interesting laptop. leaving the standard, boring design to the big name companies.
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Re: Pangolin – Mobile AMD laptop with Ryzen CPU and Radeon graphics
#33Why aren't there any bold laptop manufacturers? This is a 2021 laptop that uses USB-A primarily, a meh panel, and no particular standout design features. Why do I have to get a mac if I want actually good design? System76 should take a risk and truly make an interesting laptop. leaving the standard, boring design to the big name companies.
If you want something like a Mac there are plenty of options. Off the top of my head there's Lenovo Yoga, Dell XPS, and Microsoft Surface.
Re: Pangolin – Mobile AMD laptop with Ryzen CPU and Radeon graphics
#34Why aren't there any bold laptop manufacturers? This is a 2021 laptop that uses USB-A primarily, a meh panel, and no particular standout design features. Why do I have to get a mac if I want actually good design? System76 should take a risk and truly make an interesting laptop. leaving the standard, boring design to the big name companies.
System76 doesn't design their own laptop hardware, as far as I know.
Re: Pangolin – Mobile AMD laptop with Ryzen CPU and Radeon graphics
#35Would like to see more specifics than just "AMD Radeon Graphics". That could mean literally anything from Intel integrated level performance, to a proper dedicated GPU, though for the price here I'm guessing on the former ...
The graphics appear to come from the processor, either a
Ryzen 4500u (6 gpu cores @1500Mhz) or Ryzen 4700u (7 gpu cores @1600Mhz).
Re: Pangolin – Mobile AMD laptop with Ryzen CPU and Radeon graphics
#36Shipping 1080p panels in a high end laptop was a non-starter in 2016.
For me and my tired eyes, no laptop screen comes close to the real deal which is a large ultrawide monitor. So it might as well come with 1080p which has better battery life and no application scaling issues on Linux.
Re: Pangolin – Mobile AMD laptop with Ryzen CPU and Radeon graphics
#37> 1920×1080
Come on.
Re: Pangolin – Mobile AMD laptop with Ryzen CPU and Radeon graphics
#38Why aren't there any bold laptop manufacturers? This is a 2021 laptop that uses USB-A primarily, a meh panel, and no particular standout design features. Why do I have to get a mac if I want actually good design? System76 should take a risk and truly make an interesting laptop. leaving the standard, boring design to the big name companies.
System76 doesn't design their own laptop hardware, as far as I know.
They plan to one day: https://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/System76-To-Desig...
Re: Pangolin – Mobile AMD laptop with Ryzen CPU and Radeon graphics
#39Why aren't there any bold laptop manufacturers? This is a 2021 laptop that uses USB-A primarily, a meh panel, and no particular standout design features. Why do I have to get a mac if I want actually good design? System76 should take a risk and truly make an interesting laptop. leaving the standard, boring design to the big name companies.
My xiaomi notebook looks a bit like a mac clone and as 2x USB-C ports and 2x USB-A ports. It is not without its problems, but if you want a reasonably priced laptop that looks like a mac I would say it is a pretty good choice.
Re: Pangolin – Mobile AMD laptop with Ryzen CPU and Radeon graphics
#40Why aren't there any bold laptop manufacturers? This is a 2021 laptop that uses USB-A primarily, a meh panel, and no particular standout design features. Why do I have to get a mac if I want actually good design? System76 should take a risk and truly make an interesting laptop. leaving the standard, boring design to the big name companies.
What is so bold about the MacBook design in 2021?