I'll say the same thing I always say when System76 hardware is posted here. A 1080p screen should be a non-starter in 2023. How they are still selling these with low DPI screens doesn't make sense to me.
System76's Lemur Pro Laptop Is Just a Nice Linux Laptop
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Re: System76's Lemur Pro Laptop Is Just a Nice Linux Laptop
#82Please someone show this to the Tuxedo guys, as their supplier is the same (Clevo), but apparently it IS possible to get the Lenovo-style 6-button cursor arrangement in this form factor, and as a bonus, with separate Home/End/Ins/Del! I will never buy a laptop without this. Does System76 ship laptops with an ISO keyboard layout? I don't see this as a configuration option.
Clevo is one of System76s suppliers, many of the newer ones aren't as far as I understand. Not sure about the Lemur specifically.
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#83I'm glad they didn't put power button on the keyboard as Mac copycats do.
But there are no home/end/pgup/pgdn keys, but couple of them cramped with cursor keys (I assume home/end and pgup/dn must be pressed with Fn).
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#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do they just stick a 32gb in the other slot? Seems like dual channel will not work correctly if one stick is 8gb and the other 32
It's possible that there is no dual channel, so the laptop would not take a performance hit due to mismatched sticks. I can not tell the configuration of the slots from their specs page [0]. Their configuration page [1] confirms that it's 8GB+32GB to get the 40GB. Why wouldn't they just offer 2x16GB to get the dual-channel memory? Unless, of course, the laptop does not support dual-channel memory... -- [0]: https://s…
> so the laptop would not take a performance hit due to mismatched sticks.
My impression is that it would take a performance hit because it can’t “RAID-0” the memory sticks as it’d do if they were the same size.
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#85Figure I might as well drop a quick review after 2 years with the lemur pro 11 Pros: * Most things "just work", which you only appreciate after working with other linux laptops. For example, I can seamlessly plug this laptop in place of my work macbook with just one usb-c cable. That being said I think things have generally gotten better in the space so this may not be as much of a selling point anymore. Additionally…
Usb-C connections being unstable in Linux is definitely still a thing. My Asus laptop (amd cpu/gpu) works about 50% of the time, and the other 50 it keeps blinking the monitor on and off.
I can fix this by plugging in hdmi first, then back to usb-c. Some sort of hardware reset gets executed that way, I suppose.
Re: System76's Lemur Pro Laptop Is Just a Nice Linux Laptop
#86I'll say the same thing I always say when System76 hardware is posted here. A 1080p screen should be a non-starter in 2023. How they are still selling these with low DPI screens doesn't make sense to me.
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Re: System76's Lemur Pro Laptop Is Just a Nice Linux Laptop
#87Figure I might as well drop a quick review after 2 years with the lemur pro 11 Pros: * Most things "just work", which you only appreciate after working with other linux laptops. For example, I can seamlessly plug this laptop in place of my work macbook with just one usb-c cable. That being said I think things have generally gotten better in the space so this may not be as much of a selling point anymore. Additionally…
> Most things "just work", which you only appreciate after working with other linux laptops. For example, I can seamlessly plug this laptop in place of my work macbook with just one usb-c cable. I think any laptop sold in the last 4 or 5 years or so is plugged and charged with an usb-c cable and can be docked that way.
you'd think so, but my two year old msi delta 15 gaming laptop can't.
it has a 240w barrel plug and two usb-c ports. one usb-c port can be used for displayport, neither for charging.
Re: System76's Lemur Pro Laptop Is Just a Nice Linux Laptop
#88I'll say the same thing I always say when System76 hardware is posted here. A 1080p screen should be a non-starter in 2023. How they are still selling these with low DPI screens doesn't make sense to me.
does the window manager support a high dpi screen? I don't mind spending money on a high dpi screen; but each time I've been disappointed by the poor scaling support. Not sure what the point it.
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#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's possible that there is no dual channel, so the laptop would not take a performance hit due to mismatched sticks. I can not tell the configuration of the slots from their specs page [0]. Their configuration page [1] confirms that it's 8GB+32GB to get the 40GB. Why wouldn't they just offer 2x16GB to get the dual-channel memory? Unless, of course, the laptop does not support dual-channel memory... -- [0]: https://s…
> so the laptop would not take a performance hit due to mismatched sticks. My impression is that it would take a performance hit because it can’t “RAID-0” the memory sticks as it’d do if they were the same size.
My wording is confusing, by "not taking a performance hit" I mean that the performance of the 32GB stick is not limited to the lesser 8GB stick, like it would have been with dual channel.
Of course, dual channel is always better than single channel, and it gives you a performance boost if you have 2 of the same stick.
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Agree, battery life is atrocious. I get typically get 1.5-2 hours on a charge, after 2.5 years of ownership. I always have anxiety about plugging it in. It's the biggest problem with this machine. Other than that, I have been very happy with it. Keyboard, trackpad, screen - all adequate for me. In every way other than the battery, it pretty much gets out of the way and gets the job done.
I wonder why. I'm running Ubuntu 22.04 on a Dell Latitude and battery life hasn't been an issue for me. I probably don't really do power-hungry stuff but just browsing, editing code, ssh, email, etc. it's been fine.
I think this might have to do with aggressive CPU throttling and backlight brightness. I've noticed both of those play a pretty big role in the discharge duration of my Dell Latitude.