This is probably the worst product video I have ever seen.
They have to do a lot better than this at this time and age...
System76 Galago Pro [video]
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Re: System76 Galago Pro [video]
#82As 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…
Does dell offer a quad core processor without pulling in an Nvidia GPU? That is what ticks me off about their models. Upgrading to a quad core processor also requires upgrading to the 4k screen which requires an Nvidia GPU which makes battery life abysmal. Surely there are some users out there who want fast compile times, but dont want to do any graphics and want to maximize battery life?
You can buy the Precision 5520 with a quad i5 and no Nvidia GPU. Be sure to pick the larger 97Wh battery!
http://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/productdetails/precision...
Re: System76 Galago Pro [video]
#83As 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…
Does dell offer a quad core processor without pulling in an Nvidia GPU? That is what ticks me off about their models. Upgrading to a quad core processor also requires upgrading to the 4k screen which requires an Nvidia GPU which makes battery life abysmal. Surely there are some users out there who want fast compile times, but dont want to do any graphics and want to maximize battery life?
You can buy the Precision 5520 with a quad i5 and no Nvidia GPU. Be sure to pick the larger 97Wh battery!
http://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/productdetails/precision...
Re: System76 Galago Pro [video]
#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Fractional scaling" (I assume you mean e.g. 160 DPI instead of 200 DPI) is no problem even with the older KDE version from F23, just a bit finicky to get started up - but when it runs, it works. Gtk on the other hand seems (seemed? - I don't bother to check regularly) to be stuck at 100 %, 200 %, 300 %, ...
With gnome 3 you can install gnome tweak tool and just set the text scaling to 120-130%. Works very well on my 13 inch 1080p display
That doesn't scale the UI. And it doesn't even scale the text for many third party apps like Sublime Text, Firefox, and IntelliJ. Windows handles this perfectly.
Re: System76 Galago Pro [video]
#85> 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.
You can achieve fractional scaling by first setting Gnome hidpi to an integer value and then adjusting the screen with xrandr [0]. It's not great, but it works. Source: I have a 4K display and no problems [0] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HiDPI#GNOME
Yes I'm aware of that, it's a poor "solution" that's more like a hack. It renders everything at twice the resolution you need and then scales it down, which is awful for battery life on laptops. And it's difficult to do, barely anyone understands what a command like this does:
xrandr --output eDP-1 --auto --output HDMI-1 --auto --panning 3840x2160+3840+0 --scale 2x2 --right-of eDP-1
Re: System76 Galago Pro [video]
#86I'll join in and say the Galago was one of the worst computers I've had.
Re: System76 Galago Pro [video]
#87> 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.
System76 employee (and HiDPI... enthusiast?) here! It does not need non-integer scaling. It's 3200x1800, which is like 1600x900 pixel-doubled. A great resolution for that physical size. This is also why you don't hear us talking about "4K" on that display, because that'd actually be too many pixels and require non-integer scaling for a usable UI.
Glad you guys have thought this through. I bought a Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition in 2015 that was marketed as a perfect Linux laptop and came with Ubuntu preinstalled. It had a 13.3" screen with a resolution of 1080p, so the text and UI was almost unusable. Two years later, there's still no fix.
Re: System76 Galago Pro [video]
#88As 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 painst…
My Gazelle has also worked out really well. I do need another new battery for it though.
Re: System76 Galago Pro [video]
#89HP Laptop 2010: AMD built-in graphics card overheated and AMD cut support for it while still selling it.
Dell Laptop 2011: USB shorted out, power cord was too short. Nvidia Optimius was terrible with both Linux and Windows.
Lemur 2012, box-like, RAM was expensive, but it was a work horse. Hardware keys, very small laptop to mirror an old XP laptop I loved. Kept working even after I dropped it on it's power plug. Made good use of System76's lifetime support.
Lemur 2016, smooth, thinner, no cd-rom drive, very bright LED to the right, runs much cooler. The equivalent laptops from HP and Dell are thinner, but I do not feel like risking $1.5k on a laptop that could be a dud. The plastic casing does feel cheap and a little twistable, but so did the Dell. I can not have a metal casing for my work.
Re: System76 Galago Pro [video]
#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
No. Thinkpad X1 Carbon definitely has an ethernet port.
You are being downvoted, but you are definitely right about the new ones. I'm not sure if they are shipping yet, though. Details here: http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/x-series/x1-ca... Previous versions did not have one, afaik.
The last several generations of the X1 Carbon have all had Ethernet ports; the adapters are even compatible between the generations.