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I'm pulling for System76 in principle, but I've never been able to take the plunge on one because their chunkier Clevo/Sager-based designs have always paled aesthetically in comparison to the Dell XPS 13 line. Maybe that will finally change when they can design their own.

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Did you take a look at these?

https://system76.com/laptops/darter

https://system76.com/laptops/galago

I have one of the chunkier ones. The roominess of its insides make me happy whenever I open it up (e.g. to clean it up).

It seems the Darter Pro has the same keyboard as my Clevo PA70ES. Same layout, same hotkeys on the numpad. Any way to confirm that it's the same model? My keyboard's USB data:

  idVendor           0x048d Integrated Technology Express, Inc.
  idProduct          0x8910
  bcdDevice            0.01
  iManufacturer           1 ITE Tech. Inc.
  iProduct                2 ITE Device(829x)

I'm asking because I wrote a user space driver for the keyboard LEDs. If it's the same model, maybe they'd be interested in taking a look at it:

https://github.com/matheusmoreira/ite-829x

I found a WMI driver in their repositories but it doesn't match the way my keyboard works:

https://github.com/pop-os/system76-dkms/blob/master/system76...

I love System76 and used to own one of their desktops, but this just looks awful: https://artoo.system76.com/assets/products/darp6/keyboard-on...

Thankfully the Thelio is absolutely beautiful, so I still have high hopes for their in-house designs.

Beauty is subjective. And luckily, that's not really a perspective you're often to encounter when using a laptop in the real world.

IMO, the XPS laptops don't really look a ton different when viewed from that angle.

Recently I was looking at their laptops, but with a resolution of only 1920x1080, unless I wanted to buy one of the thicker laptops, was a deal breaker. Perhaps once they start making their own they will bump up the resolution, but until then I will wait.

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