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Comment by Mikeb85 | Hacker News Reader

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...

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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.

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.

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.

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