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by isantop 7y ago
I'm sure you're correct that not every fault gets reported to us; even among those that do, the customer doesn't always decide to take the action and get the computer fixed, depending on the problem and the solution. That sai
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by isantop 7y ago
I'm deeply sorry we couldn't get that issue resolved.
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by isantop 7y ago
I often have two editors in vertical columns side by side while I work, and it's nice to have a wider screen. Unfortunately with 16:10, they don't usually add to the vertical resolution but rather subtract from the horizontal reso
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by isantop 7y ago
The ME is partly responsible for powering up the main CPU. That kind of thing wouldn't be possible without a reimplementation of the ME from the start.
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by isantop 7y ago
They're certainly no less durable than most consumer laptops. Our hinges in particular have a reputation for being nice and tight for a long period of time. They aren't ruggedized or anything (like a toughbook), but they'll l
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by isantop 7y ago
It's worth noting that stories like this are the extreme minority of cases. We have a great many customers and the overwhelming majority of computers we sell live out their entire (long) lives without any sort of incident, major or min
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by isantop 7y ago
I can't answer the technical side of that really well (IIRC something about targetting different things or something), but I wanted to comment that the name (Coreboot without the C) is genius. There is an Oreboot sticker on my fridge.
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by isantop 7y ago
AMD and Intel do not share a socket.
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by isantop 7y ago
Pretty much all compiled code at System76 is currently written in Rust if possible. There's obviously still some C that gets written, but Rust is the de facto standard language here now.
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by isantop 7y ago
The Galago is actually about the same size as 13 inch laptops a few years ago. Bezel reduction has contributed a lot to shrinking laptops.
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by isantop 7y ago
Yeah, the actual Intel WiFi driver is afiak open source. It's the firmware that's not.
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by isantop 7y ago
Both the Adder and the Serval are available with 4K displays (The Adder also being OLED). System76 has been providing Linux-friendly laptops for well over a decade, and we take pride in offering the highest-possible performance available in
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by isantop 8y ago
Industrial Design is the discipline within the design field that deals with the physical design of products/hardware. It's not a genre of design itself.
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by isantop 8y ago
That was quite literally the goal from the beginning. Make a computer that one would feel ashamed to hide in a cabinet.
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by isantop 8y ago
Lian-Li is one of very few case ODMs that still make sensible looking cases. They supplied all of our (System76) cases until Thelio, and there's a bit of inspiration from them in the design.
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by isantop 8y ago
System76 Engineer here, who did a lot of work on the ID for Thelio. The veneer actually has a pretty superb minimum radius, depending on which direction you bend it. Bending with the grain for our particular veneer lets you bend around a 1&