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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: 2) by driven on Thursday April 27 2017, @01:43PM (2 children)
Did you have any trouble with wireless waking up after sleep like someone else commented? That would be a deal-breaker for me.
(Score: 2, Informative) by darkpixel on Thursday April 27 2017, @01:49PM
That's one area I never deal with. I bought the laptop to take to work because work wouldn't provide a powerful enough machine to do my job. I would shut it down, pack it up, and go to work--never put it to sleep. After about 4 months of dragging it between work and home, I showed my boss what I was doing. He was impressed. And i told him I would no longer be lugging my $2,500 personal laptop to the office and he'd have to get me a decent machine. Problem solved. My laptop has been plugged in at home for the last 4.3 years. It never sleeps. ;)
(Score: 3, Informative) by urza9814 on Thursday April 27 2017, @05:25PM
I bought the Bonobo Extreme Bonx8 model about two years back, and I've never had an issue with the wifi coming back after putting it to sleep.
I *did* have some issues with it locking up when coming out of sleep, but that only started after a software update more than a year after I bought the thing so it's certainly not a hardware issue. Not sure what it is exactly because I haven't bothered to look into it any, but it's not the hardware (I use Arch so I figure it'll be fixed in a couple updates...at which point something *else* will break...)