This "article" cites no data and is basically just an ad for System76.com.
"Instead of 16GB of RAM as found on the Apple, I configured with 32GB (you can go up to 64GB if needed). By default, it comes with a 6GB Nvidia GTX 1060. The price? Less than $2,000! In other words, the System76 machine with much better specs is less expensive than Apple's."
I'm not an Apple fanboy but since the company I work for provides us with any hardware we want, most of us use Macbook Pros. The thing is, sure, it might have 16GB more RAM but it looks like a huge black brick. I'm not even going to start talking more about design but how can you even compare 2.49kg weight to 1.83kg of the Macbook Pro?
My point, weight unknown, is that Apple are so focussed on thinness they have forgotten that I have "legacy" hardware lying around, still in use. I refuse to spend $ on replacing working external drives, usb sticks and more (home studio sound card for example) simply because some company has decided I need "to get with the times".
Apple want a consumer market in which users consume, consume, consume like tech is a loaf of bread. I'm not buying into that.
On a side note: soon the second hand market will be flooded with perfectly working and underpriced "legacy" hardware.
dell 2016 xps13 still the best laptop in the world.
some builder called system76 thinks their blocky box can compete with it or the macbook pro.
probably not.
So far they're just getting excited about a spike in traffic. Which doesn't surprise me thanks to all these baity articles, comparing the MBP to various alternatives.
So there's the question. Is this just a side-effect of all the ranty articles, or are people actually 'switching'.