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Picked up a System76 for a Linux work laptop earlier this year just to have a beefier CPU compared to the Framework (this was before their CPU refresh), and it'
by kibwen 4y ago
Picked up a System76 for a Linux work laptop earlier this year just to have a beefier CPU compared to the Framework (this was before their CPU refresh), and it's actually been fantastic (surprisingly good compared to the last desktop Linux machine I had a decade ago). However, I love the idea of the Framework so much that I'm still trying to find any excuse to pick one up anyway. You know how important work/life balance is in the remote era, so that means I should really have one machine for work and one machine for personal use, right...?
Call me crazy, in this world of constant technological treadmills, but I'd be ecstatic if I had a laptop that I could ship-of-theseus for the next two decades or more.
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- frellus 4y agoIf this helps ... Framework have refurb models which are extremely reasonably priced. Personally I tried the System76 but I found the keyboard layout obnoxious. I'm not sure it was all models, but the one I picked up was unusable for me, coming from a mac. They tried to shove everything on the keyboard, like num pad, which wasn't necessary IMHO. Not sure if it was just a bad pick, or every model.
- kibwen 4y agoAgreed, I'd happily trade my System76's numpad for a full-sized right shift key that doesn't yield space to the arrow keys. Not all System76 models have the truncated right shift, but don't think that I haven't noticed that it's full-sized on all the Framework models...