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Closing in on a COSMIC Alpha (blog.system76.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (5 children)

Does System76 have right now, or upcoming, any laptops that can match Apple's hardware quality? They seem like Clevo rebrands.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

They have been working on a fully in-house open source laptop for some time but I don't know the ETA on it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

What's wrong with clevo rebrands?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

As far as I know, all the so called Linux laptops are rebranded white label products from China

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Starlabs is not AFAIK, same with PINE

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Hello fellow Keith

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Hello

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Starlabs laptops are great. I can't wait to see a review of thestarfighters laptop!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I hear the battery life is poor but not sure.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I get ~8 hours on my starbook MkVI, with Bluetooth disabled.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

They plan on starting to make their own laptops but there aren’t many details available. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/system76-shows-off-first-images-of-its-virgo-linux-laptop-design

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

apple's hardware quality

I laughed. Cheaply made Chinese builds sold at a huge markup to make it look good to rich idiots doesn't mean quality.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I'm sorry, but I absolutely cannot understand this. Have you held a modern macbook, like a macbook m2 air, in your hands?

I don't like their software a lot, but the hardware is top of the industry in almost every way after they released their own CPUs. For what you get, they are cheap.

Before Apple Silicon they were more meh, though.