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“You can get great hardware and battery life with system76 for instance.” The build quality of these two platforms is nowhere, and I mean nowhere close. Apples (heh) and oranges.

I’m rooting for system76, but they have a long way to go.

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Absolutely agree. Build quality is meh, not even good. But the battery is seriously good. Like 10+ hours good.

Which model is that? My 2 year old System76 Galago Pro gets 1 hour of battery life.

This guy here: https://system76.com/laptops/lemur

>Up to 14 hours of battery life per charge

I routinely get over 10 hours.

10+ hours isn't 'seriously' good anymore. I routinely can get 18-20 hours on my M1 MacBook Pro.

Whilst that's true I dream of getting 10 hours battery life on my XPS 13 Dev Edition (9370).

I really miss all day usage that I had on my last Mac. If System76 can provide that again I think I could live with lower build quality.

they are cheap clevo laptops at a huge markup

I just spec'd out the System 76 Galago Pro to match that of the Clevo equivalent that's linked elsewhere in this thread (L143MU), and the System 76 came to $1032, while the Clevo is listed at €1,026.90 (or $1,116.89), so when you say "huge markup" it must be in reference to something else. That said, I don't have any real skin in this game.

They don’t pay retail. Perhaps they have a slightly less high of a markup than the OEM.

I have no idea whatsoever.

well to be fair, i did the same exercise before buying a system76 a few years back and the difference was a bit more even with oem consideration so thats good to know. the build quality is very cheapish feeling and it fell apart pretty quickly and i regretted not just getting a lenovo or xps or something but it was nice to support their efforts

I have not used any System76 laptop, but how is its build quality to a Thinkpad?

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