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My old laptop was a System 76 Gazelle with an Nvidia card, never had any problems with it. I am busy and just left the stock PopOS on there, worked fine. My cu

by mrj 3y ago

My old laptop was a System 76 Gazelle with an Nvidia card, never had any problems with it. I am busy and just left the stock PopOS on there, worked fine. My current is a Tuxedo Computers Pulse 15 II, with an AMD card. I love this laptop. I mainly bought to have something portable, more memory (64 GB) and quiet. The sold me on the quiet and battery life and it's fantastic. Early on I had a couple of issues with the hardware suspend but they solved it through their tomte system. (I had an oddball setup I configured with two different drive manufacturers and it was messing with suspend. I found and applied config for my Samsung.) The only issue I've had with the AMD card is that running Immersed to create virtual desktops for VR using inactive display imports crashes amdgpu. Pretty niche :). Apparently that's something you can do with Nvidia. I worked around it with an HDMI dongle. Edit: most responses here seem to be the big manufacturers but you really avoid a lot of problems by buying from a Linux vendor. If you're busy, this is a real lifesaver.

jwells89 3y ago
I almost bought a system76 Lemur instead of my X1 Nano, but decided against it after reading a bunch of reports of bad QC by their ODM Clevo. The ThinkPad having a 16:10 screen over the Lemur’s 16:9 screen was also a factor (which appears to have not changed since 3 years ago). Tuxedo’s Pulse 14 looks interesting but I wish its screen were a bit brighter. Also no ANSI keyboard layout option which is a bummer.
- mrj 3y ago
  Hm mine is ansi, maybe it's different now or by size.
  - pkulak 3y ago
    I think they added US keyboards a couple years ago.
jvan 3y ago
Seconding System76. I bought one for my wife after HP and Dell refurbs failed to be stable for her, so instead of trying to find a reasonably priced (<$800) business-class laptop we blew the budget on a $1500 Pangolin that's done well by her for several years. My daily driver is a desktop because I'm an old fart that likes to build computers (with optical disc drives!), but I have a truly ancient HP Elitebook refurb with a dented lid that still takes care of me on vacation. Neither of us do anything fancier than use an HDMI projector with them so we're not asking for much. It really stung to be compiling Realtek modules for the HP only for it to crash every week and the Latitude to have a disappearing sound card, even for budget refurbs.

by mrj 3y ago

jwells89 3y ago

I almost bought a system76 Lemur instead of my X1 Nano, but decided against it after reading a bunch of reports of bad QC by their ODM Clevo. The ThinkPad having a 16:10 screen over the Lemur’s 16:9 screen was also a factor (which appears to have not changed since 3 years ago). Tuxedo’s Pulse 14 looks interesting but I wish its screen were a bit brighter. Also no ANSI keyboard layout option which is a bummer.

mrj 3y ago
Hm mine is ansi, maybe it's different now or by size.
- pkulak 3y ago
  I think they added US keyboards a couple years ago.

jvan 3y ago

Seconding System76. I bought one for my wife after HP and Dell refurbs failed to be stable for her, so instead of trying to find a reasonably priced (<$800) business-class laptop we blew the budget on a $1500 Pangolin that's done well by her for several years. My daily driver is a desktop because I'm an old fart that likes to build computers (with optical disc drives!), but I have a truly ancient HP Elitebook refurb with a dented lid that still takes care of me on vacation. Neither of us do anything fancier than use an HDMI projector with them so we're not asking for much. It really stung to be compiling Realtek modules for the HP only for it to crash every week and the Latitude to have a disappearing sound card, even for budget refurbs.