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We're about to build the Model S of computers. Something so brilliant and beautiful that reviewers will have to add an 11 to their scores. Being that we're System76 and we do things the System76 way, our design principles are polar opposite of the rest of the industry.
- Represent the character of our company
Our company is open, warm, friendly, and high-quality. Our designs reflect these characteristics.
- Represent the Open Source community
Our CAD work will be Open Source and our design will pay tribute to computer science.
- Easy to work on and expand.
At every step along the way we ask, "How does this decision affect serviceability". Open it, change it, expand it. Our product will be flexible.
- Efficient to manufacture
[...] We're starting with desktops. There's a lot to learn and the form factor is easiest to work with. Both design and CAD work are well along their way. We're prototyping with acrylic and moving to metal soon. Our first in-house designed and manufactured desktops will ship next year. Laptops are more complex and will follow much later.
It's going to take some years, but by the end of phase three, we'll be able to create anything. We'll apply our unique computers for creators perspective to every aspect of our products.
Also at: https://liliputing.com/2017/04/linux-pc-builder-system76-plans-design-manufacture-hardware.html
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 27 2017, @02:13AM (3 children)
Please work on some kind of RISC-V based system; work with the people of the lowRISC [lowrisc.org] project.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Thursday April 27 2017, @02:21AM (2 children)
Nice sentiment, but I'd follow Apple's mid 2000s cue and offer an Intel based system. It may not be idealistically open, but it will be much more flexible and useful in the world we leave in.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 27 2017, @02:27AM
The goal should be to get away from the blackbox that is Intel.
By all means, provide working machines that are profitable; just be sure to take a smidgen of those profits, and put them towards a profitable escape plan.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 27 2017, @08:42PM
If you said that as "x86-64" (actually an AMD technology which Chipzilla had to cross-license), that would be better.
...though I have no particular objection to GP's suggestion to get away from CISC and move to architectures that are more affordable and actually/potentially less power-hungry.
(The only "disadvantage" that I see is that MICROS~1's crap won't run on them--which is NOT a fault of the hardware.)
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