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I want to chime in a contrasting opinion here. I had an old Galago that I adored. Came with Ubuntu, swapped that to Arch then stayed happy with it for years! It
by skidd0 8y ago
I want to chime in a contrasting opinion here. I had an old Galago that I adored. Came with Ubuntu, swapped that to Arch then stayed happy with it for years! It was a plastic frame, but it was tough enough to shove in a backpack and take longboarding. After 3 years, the Ethernet port's spring clip finally snapped off (user error), but still worked. I also accidentally bent the audio jack, but it still worked. It finally "died" when my pup knocked it off the couch with the charger still plugged in. The charger plug, still in the port, hit the floor at just the right angle to snap the port's inner prong off making it impossible to charge. I didn't notice until the next day when the battery used it's last bits of juice then shut down.
Very happy with my System76 purchase. But! I've only ever used the one device.
- dmead 8y agoYou're aware they're all relabeled Chinese hardware yes?
- smacktoward 8y agoThat's true of System76's laptops, but part of their pitch for Thelio is that it marks a shift towards them doing their own design and manufacturing in the US. See https://blog.system76.com/post/179592732883/system76-on-us-manufacturing-and-open-hardware https://blog.system76.com/post/179592732883/system76-on-us-m... for details.
- ForHackernews 8y agoAre there any computer brands that aren't manufactured in China?
- selectodude 8y agoThey mean that System76 doesn't use an OEM, they use a white box ODM. You can buy the exact same laptop from several different companies.
- a2tech 8y agoI suspect they’re selling rebadged clevo laptops like almost everyone
- bwat49 8y agoThis idea that they just re-label an existing laptop and call it a day really is not accurate: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/5umefi/system76_refreshes_ubuntu_linux_laptops_with/ddvcx45/ https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/5umefi/system76_refr...
- mlthoughts2018 8y agoI wanted to add my experiences with System76 too, which agrees with the parent comment and disagrees with yours. I’ve owned a large desktop and laptop from System76 and had tons of issues with both, along with consistently awful customer service, needing to argue for example that I should not have to pay shipping fees when returning the desktop that arrived with a non-functional motherboard when it was first shipped to me, and then later also having to argue for System76 to manage doorside pick-up for me to mailback the return (I live in a city without a car and no way to physically carry a huge desktop PC to the nearest UPS store, and I’m not paying for a taxi to mail back something that was broken on arrival). I’ve since switched to Lenovo laptops and just reformat at install Ubuntu on them. Much simpler process, much better customer service.