System76 Will Start Designing and Building Its Own Linux Laptops in January 2020

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Re: System76 Will Start Designing and Building Its Own Linux Laptops in January 2020

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Post by hardwaresofton » Sat, Nov 23, 2019, 2:48 AM UTC

Fire-Dragon-DoL wrote: post #80

hardwaresofton wrote: post #71

Popping in to note that if anyone is on the fence about the Oryx Pro, it's a fantastic machine, I love mine! System76 was a fantastic company to deal with. After some initial troubles with the cooling system (I sent the laptop back and it was serviced under warranty), I've been chugging along the last few months. I should note that the fans can get pretty loud (from what I read on reviews other laptops like the Lenov…

What problem did you have with cooling? Mine has been working fine, but i can't help but feel terrified when looking at temperatures while gaming. It's been holding for 2 years though, so i guess it's fine...

Mine was DOA -- it would overheat within minutes of being started up, a cooling unit wasn't starting/working at all.

Yeah, I see high temps while gaming, but nothing crazy actually (~80C).

I actually have a second smaller laptop as a sort of redundancy just in case, but if it's been good for you for 2 years maybe it's fine. I do have the newer model they just started making so I assume your model is shaped different as well.

Re: System76 Will Start Designing and Building Its Own Linux Laptops in January 2020

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Post by heavyset_go » Wed, Nov 27, 2019, 3:22 AM UTC

floatboth wrote: post #41

heavyset_go wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Outside of the server realm, ARM ISAs aren't standardized and require a fork of the Linux kernel to support each individual board configuration. The consumer ARM space is a mess when it comes to Linux support.

There is only one ARM ISA. Well, okay, multiple (32 vs 64 bit, microcontroller vs unix-capable) but vendors don't change the ISA. (Apple has been allowed to introduce some extension for using a coprocessor (?) recently but that's it.) The different crap between vendors is just the various onboard devices on the SoC, nothing to do with the CPU cores that implement the ARM ISA. The "consumer" space is indeed not good,…

I got my acronyms confused, when I say ISA, I mean the ARM board equivalents of the Industry Standard Architecture[1] that preceded PCI.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industry_Standard_Architecture

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