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: 3, Insightful) by vux984 on Thursday April 27 2017, @02:19AM (3 children)
Meh, desktop cases are kind of a generic commodity at this stage and have been for years. I don't see a lot of value in designing and fabricating another one. Antec and others already make lots of excellently designed desktop cases, they are standards compliant and you can put any hardware you like in them. So I can't really see selecting System76 for the desktop case unless it is truly special in some way that i can't really imagine... and simultaneously not over-priced.
An open source laptop design on the other hand tweaks my interest since there are numerous compromises that have to be made there between modularity, size, and style. And as I understand it system76 is basically selling rebadged laptops (is this correct?) so they are somewhat limited in terms of just what component combinations are inside them.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Hairyfeet on Thursday April 27 2017, @04:21AM (2 children)
But is it really hard to find a laptop to run Linux on these days? Even someone like me who can't stand Linux (its not the OS, its the shitty attitude the devs have and the insane desire to constantly reinvent the wheel and change just enough shit to make distros incompatible with each other) will give credit where credit is due and from what I've seen on your average Intel i3 or AMD APU laptop? You just plug in the flash, install the OS and it "just works". Even the dreaded Broadcom wireless from what I've been told runs perfectly in the latest Ubuntu and as a nice bonus you have a Windows key you can use for a VM if you run into any software you need that doesn't run on Linux.
so unless you just really hate having that windows key and are willing to pay a premium to lose it i just don't see the point, its not 2004 when finding hardware Linux would run on is a PITA anymore.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
(Score: 2) by stormwyrm on Thursday April 27 2017, @05:50AM
Numquam ponenda est pluralitas sine necessitate.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 27 2017, @07:54PM
the shitty attitude [they] have and the insane desire to constantly reinvent the wheel and change just enough shit to make [things] incompatible
Who were you talking about again?
Oh, I see: Linux distro developers.
Had me thinking you might be talking about Redmond.
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...and I'm happy to see that System76 (correctly written as one word) has improved its attitude.
In 2009, Linux advocate Ken Starks contacted them and they couldn't be bothered with that "Linux community" stuff.
Ken characterized System76 as rude. [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [blogspot.com]
(Ken found ZaReason to be very congenial and recommended them to others.)
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]