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Thelio – Open Source Laptop from System 76

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Just show us the product, not a stupid hype video with no details.

I thought the site was broken on Mobile because i couldn't see any details of the machine. Guess it's not broken, just generally useless :)

I was just today saying to coworker, that these days people usually go to online stores to check out products and product details, because the vendor pages are full of utter bs just like this prime example of this phenomenon.

This is a valuable example of how not to do things, and should be preserved.

Came in to say a lot of the same... without anything to go on, I'm really not interested in hype. I've seen way too many "open" products come and go, and this just smells of vaporware.

Kind of disappointing that there is not much details... Does this tie in with their new manufacturing plant in the states [1]? I thought about buying a System 76 laptop two years ago or so. But I hear that there were some problems so stayed away (and that the laptops are just rebranded with additional software work). I currently use a X62 Thinkpad and it's already pretty "open sourced". The schematics are readily available online and the unit works flawlessly on Linux. Best part is that you have to build it yourself! If this new laptop is at the right price point and quality, I'll be pretty interested. It would be pretty awesome if it can be self built.

[1] http://blog.system76.com/post/175995780368/system76-new-manu...

Sooooo, no details?!?! Great. Let's predict: it's gonna be a rebranded Clevo, like all their other laptops, which for a few years work out-of-the box for Linux. That is not an System76 achievment! And yes, Clevo makes great products.

I want to see someone strap a battery, screen and keyboard to one of these 6 core ARM64 machines: http://shop.t-firefly.com/goods.php?id=45

I've never had a good System 76 experience - and lordy do I wish I did. I'd like nothing more than to buy a Linux supported laptop from a vendor, and continue to support OSS. I've System76'd, ThinkPengiun'd, etc... and they're all bad. Somehow, System76 continues to chose Clevo or Sagers that are just poorly built, as opposed to the well built kit.

Ultimately we just settle on buying great gear from whatever vendor works - and we make it work. Currently we run AlienWare from end-to-end, though I'm using a Surface for my mobile needs.

System76 make nice Linux laptops, but unfortunately battery life hasn't been a priority for them. Their last model (the Galago Pro) only gets around 2-3 hours, and previous models were just as bad.

Sadly this will probebly not be a RISC-V chip. But hopefully they will go in that direction eventually.

I hope it will allow me to use coreboot with heads.

Anyway, I love whay they are trying to do.

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