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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: 1) by darkpixel on Thursday April 27 2017, @01:54PM
Hmm....I never put my laptop to sleep. I needed a powerful workstation that was semi-portable at first, but after a few months I stopped having to move it around. I'm running Mint on it, and I don't recall ever sleeping the darn thing. Mainly because I run a few VMs on it that serve stuff to the internet a few times a night. And it's hard-wired.
I basically used the wireless for about 4 months and than almost never again.
One weird issue I ran into in the very beginning was that I could unplug the ethernet interface and plug it back in and it would fail to detect a link. I would have to 'ip link set down dev eth0; ip link set up dev eth0'. I think it was a kernel bug as the problem hasn't recurred in years.