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Comment by Mikeb85 | Hacker News Reader

Not gonna lie, very underwhelming compared to what's coming out from other manufacturers...

Even a budget brand like Acer is releasing Ryzen 7000 chipsets and pairing it with higher resolution OLED screens, probably will be cheaper as well...

https://www.acer.com/ca-en/laptops/swift/swift-go-14-amd

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The Ryzen 7000 mobile lineup includes chips based on Zen4, Zen 3+, Zen 3, and even Zen 2 cpu cores, and using RDNA3, RDNA2, and even Vega graphics! An Acer with a Ryzen 7000 series chip could easily have the same or older cpu core or graphics arch, as the Zen 3+ and RDNA2 in Ryzen 6800U.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/18718/amd-2023-ryzen-mobile-7...

(and honestly, Zen 3 and RDNA 2 are damn good anyway)

The teaser says 8 cores/16 threads so likely will be at least equivalent. With a much better screen. And cheaper.

System76 is a brand for ideologues. They ship laptops with FOSS UEFI. That’s their gimmick.

I mean, I like Linux and am a bit of an ideologue... I want System76 to succeed and want to buy a laptop from them but I also like using nice hardware.

I think you get what you pay for. Nicer hardware = more expensive. Maybe if this is successful the System76 will consider fast-tracking Ryzen 7000.

Except System76 charges premium prices for subpar hardware...

Like they don't have anything built as nicely as a Dell XPS or a ThinkPad Z or X1 Carbon. Even Acers look more premium...

I bought one less than a year ago. I took the budget for a macbook and spent it maxing out a system 76 laptop. Double the memory, over double the storage, ample USB ports, not really sure what's subpar about what I'm using. Best laptop I've ever had by far. Regarding looks, I don't know or care.

Compared to a MacBook I’m sure your battery life is meager. And the memory bandwidth (which may not matter at all for your use cases) will be minuscule compared to Apple Silicon. But those are general non-MacBook issues.

What the heck is their problem?!?! Surely a company 10 times the size of Dell could produce just as nice of a laptop design...

I think a Linux-only laptop is pretty cool, even if it has some tradeoffs.

they're charging more, but I always assumed that's because they're a smaller company based in the US paying US wages. Also a while back they mentioned that they wanted to build everything here in the US. They also support linux, coreboot, etc. I think there are people out there willing to spend money to support something they care about.

If they made a US-built laptop with CoreBoot, a decent keyboard and a 4K OLED screen I'd buy it in a second. Would probably be willing to spend $2500 on it.

Does that really exist? All I see is:

> Pick your perfect Swift Go 14 AMD

> Search for your Swift Go 14 AMD by features or browse the products below.

> Results: 0

I mean, the System76 discussed also isn't available at this exact moment either...

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