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Which System76 laptop are you using, and how has your experience been with it?

mindcrime 5y ago
I went with a Gazelle. I splurged a little bit and got 32GB of RAM, and both a NVMe drive and an SSD, so I have both plenty of RAM and plenty of fast storage. By and large I am extremely satisfied with this box so far. The only thing I really don't like, and this is admittedly a pretty subjective thing, is the layout of the keyboard vis-a-vis the right shift key. I prefer a full-length shift key, above the arrow keys. This has a smaller shift key, which is just to the left of the up arrow key and above the left arrow key. It's a minor nit, but it's not as convenient to the way I like to use the shift and arrow keys together for selecting text.
spaetzleesser 5y ago
I have a Galago Pro and in general I like it. some drawbacks I see: - Terrible battery life - Sound quality and volume not very good - Problems with suspend/wake and fan control. The fan turns on when a USB-C is connected and the device is in suspend mode. Sometimes the fan goes into super turbo mode at night and can only be stopped with a hard reset. This one really bugs me and I would like system76 to fix it Otherwise I like the machine. Display is good. I like the keyboard better than on my Macbook 2019. Trackpad works surprisingly well.
acomjean 5y ago
I have an old oryx4 (intel8th gen/ nvidia graphics). Its my daily driver. Its been quite durable, (I did have to replace a fan which wasn't too bad. In fairness I think my environment may have caused that. But its basically a clevo model laptop rebadged, so getting a part wasn't bad.). The screen/keyboard/ trackpad are decent. It can run steam/ unreal engine/ jetbrains/). Lots of ports. Its a great development machine. Its always been great with the auto updates and software installs for the most part. (although right now, its in some state where its got some libc packages ahead of where the next upgrade thinks it should be. so it fails.... my first real linuxy state issue). My main gripes are battery life when using the nvidia graphics and having to reboot to switch from nvidia to intel. For me its mostly a lugable hooked up to external monitors. They have a "hybrid mode" now, but when I tried last year it didn't seem to be great. Battery is much much better without the graphics card running. I'd buy another.

I went with a Gazelle. I splurged a little bit and got 32GB of RAM, and both a NVMe drive and an SSD, so I have both plenty of RAM and plenty of fast storage. By and large I am extremely satisfied with this box so far. The only thing I really don't like, and this is admittedly a pretty subjective thing, is the layout of the keyboard vis-a-vis the right shift key. I prefer a full-length shift key, above the arrow keys. This has a smaller shift key, which is just to the left of the up arrow key and above the left arrow key. It's a minor nit, but it's not as convenient to the way I like to use the shift and arrow keys together for selecting text.

spaetzleesser 5y ago

I have a Galago Pro and in general I like it. some drawbacks I see: - Terrible battery life - Sound quality and volume not very good - Problems with suspend/wake and fan control. The fan turns on when a USB-C is connected and the device is in suspend mode. Sometimes the fan goes into super turbo mode at night and can only be stopped with a hard reset. This one really bugs me and I would like system76 to fix it Otherwise I like the machine. Display is good. I like the keyboard better than on my Macbook 2019. Trackpad works surprisingly well.

acomjean 5y ago

I have an old oryx4 (intel8th gen/ nvidia graphics). Its my daily driver. Its been quite durable, (I did have to replace a fan which wasn't too bad. In fairness I think my environment may have caused that. But its basically a clevo model laptop rebadged, so getting a part wasn't bad.). The screen/keyboard/ trackpad are decent. It can run steam/ unreal engine/ jetbrains/). Lots of ports. Its a great development machine. Its always been great with the auto updates and software installs for the most part. (although right now, its in some state where its got some libc packages ahead of where the next upgrade thinks it should be. so it fails.... my first real linuxy state issue). My main gripes are battery life when using the nvidia graphics and having to reboot to switch from nvidia to intel. For me its mostly a lugable hooked up to external monitors. They have a "hybrid mode" now, but when I tried last year it didn't seem to be great. Battery is much much better without the graphics card running. I'd buy another.