Comment on Finally, a Linux laptop with a brilliant display and performance that rivals my MacBook (from Germany)

the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The Clevo OEM laptops that make up most of System76 laptop offerings are getting worse and louder over time. I’ve had two successive Oryx pros that both had persistent hardware issues that outlasted my warranty coverage, the 2nd of which was simply producing more heat than 3 air cooled heat pipes could every hope to account for. I know why they stopped selling that particular model of Oryx something like 3 months before the next one was available.

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  • wingsfortheirsmiles@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Fwiw, the Infinity Book Pro 14 in the review is also from Clevo. The author does praise Tuxedo’s tight integration of their flavour of Linux to the HW, so perhaps this is ahead of S76. No dog in this fight as I’m both companies, I like PopOS but have never bought a laptop from either

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  • the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    yeah its a shame they aren’t better manufacturers out there for this sort of market. Even first party hardware seems pretty trash these days long gone are the days when a boutique PC manufacturer would go out of their way to make something that stands out. Falcon Northwest is the last holdout I know of and even they are nothing like they used to be.

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    • DFX4509B_2@lemmy.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Framework’s doing a pretty good job standing out for laptops anyways, with their user-repairability focus.

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• AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  System 76 is on another continent though.

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  • the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Another continent from Germany, yes another continet from you, probably but unfortunately for me I live in the same shithole country as system 76. that being said the hardware is all made over on that side of the pond anyway since they are just rebranded Cleavo / Sager hardware anyway.

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  • IceFoxX@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Novacustom

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• juergen@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  i think system 76 is x86_64 not arm?

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  • brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Most everything is x86. The above laptop uses an AMD 8845HS with DDR5 SODIMMs. pretty standard.

    The exceptions are Apple, and some Qualcomm Windows laptops that… to be honest are kinda unremarkable.

    TBH the only interesting hardware in this space right now are the AMD Strix Halo laptops (which are Linux friendly M4 Pro/Max analogues). Someone could try to stuff an ARM Nvidia GB10 in a laptop frame, but it would cost a fortune.

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