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As someone who's been looking at system76 for a while, what made you pull the Apple trigger?

ImprovedSilence 15y ago
Nicer, more polished complete package. The MBA is small, thus more portable, battery lasts long (just look at the brick of an adapter to the system76 laptops, those batteries suck power). Plus Imma sucker for shiny things, and that backlit keyboard is NICE. My desktop runs Ubuntu, and I don't have any other of Apple's products (sans an iPod, that I haven't synced in over 2 years...) I was basically looking for something Unix based, that is rock solid. People say Macs are underpowered for their price, but I really didn't see anything from the PC side that could compete with the Air's complete package. (fromfactor, hardware integeration, 10second boot time.) Plus I really didn't want a windows machine, and go through the painstaking process of making sure Ubuntu supports all its hardware, so I wanted something with a pre-loaded OS I was going to use (my decision came down to system76, or Apple). Plus when you get xTools, or whatever Apples dev suite is, you get more pre-packaged developer tools than you do on Ubuntu, (all the python, perl, php, c, Ruby, etc you could want) Also, being completely new to Mac, I have zero gripes with Lion, unlike lots of other people, I love the way they use gestures, I love the fullscreen views (especially for browsing in chrome), I rely on several desktops, and I find myself using the launchpad often for applications that don't run in the terminal. The only thing I regret is not getting the 256 GB SSD for an extra $400... [edit]: I realize the original question about non-mac laptops. What I liked about system76 was it came pre-packaged with a Linux distro, so I wasn't going to have to fuss about with hardware integration. Their website is clean, easy to navigate and understand options, unlike every PC company out there (just looking at Dells and Lenovos websites gave me headaches and I found it impossible to sort through the rubbish to find any computer I would like.) I also emailed support at system76 when I had a question, I got back a very helpful and friendly answer, and they even invited me to stop by their shop if I was in Colorado. I'll defiately look at them when I in the market for a power desktop next.

Nicer, more polished complete package. The MBA is small, thus more portable, battery lasts long (just look at the brick of an adapter to the system76 laptops, those batteries suck power). Plus Imma sucker for shiny things, and that backlit keyboard is NICE. My desktop runs Ubuntu, and I don't have any other of Apple's products (sans an iPod, that I haven't synced in over 2 years...) I was basically looking for something Unix based, that is rock solid. People say Macs are underpowered for their price, but I really didn't see anything from the PC side that could compete with the Air's complete package. (fromfactor, hardware integeration, 10second boot time.) Plus I really didn't want a windows machine, and go through the painstaking process of making sure Ubuntu supports all its hardware, so I wanted something with a pre-loaded OS I was going to use (my decision came down to system76, or Apple). Plus when you get xTools, or whatever Apples dev suite is, you get more pre-packaged developer tools than you do on Ubuntu, (all the python, perl, php, c, Ruby, etc you could want) Also, being completely new to Mac, I have zero gripes with Lion, unlike lots of other people, I love the way they use gestures, I love the fullscreen views (especially for browsing in chrome), I rely on several desktops, and I find myself using the launchpad often for applications that don't run in the terminal. The only thing I regret is not getting the 256 GB SSD for an extra $400... [edit]: I realize the original question about non-mac laptops. What I liked about system76 was it came pre-packaged with a Linux distro, so I wasn't going to have to fuss about with hardware integration. Their website is clean, easy to navigate and understand options, unlike every PC company out there (just looking at Dells and Lenovos websites gave me headaches and I found it impossible to sort through the rubbish to find any computer I would like.) I also emailed support at system76 when I had a question, I got back a very helpful and friendly answer, and they even invited me to stop by their shop if I was in Colorado. I'll defiately look at them when I in the market for a power desktop next.