Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

System76 Oryx Pro Linux Laptop is Now Thinner and Faster (betanews.com)

Posted by msmash on from the beast-hardware dept.

An anonymous reader shares a report: Last week, System76 started to share details about its refreshed Linux-powered Oryx Pro laptop. It would be thinner and more powerful, while adding twice the battery life of its predecessor. Unfortunately, we did not yet know exactly what the laptop looked like. Today, we finally have official images. The new Oryx Pro is quite breathtaking, as it is a true Pro machine -- with the USB Type-A, Ethernet, and HDMI ports you expect -- while being just 19mm thin. It has the horsepower that power-users need, thanks to its 8th Gen Intel Core i7 processor and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 10-Series GPU.

4 of 115 comments (clear)

  1. I've come to expect LESS machine in 2018 by garcia · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I work in marketing analytics and we're constantly crunching through massive datasources which require servers/cloud-based systems to make the work and timing managable.

    A simple MacBook Pro with 8GB and an i5 is more than enough for me to load RDP, terminals for SSH, and the applications I might be using locally.

    Honest question, being I'm doing 100% of my development on remote machines either at the data center or in the cloud, how many people require actual big horsepower on their machine to get their jobs done?

    1. Re:I've come to expect LESS machine in 2018 by Xenolith0 · · Score: 4, Interesting

      I'm a Linux Consultant/Instructor and often have a need for running many (many) virtual machines simultaneously as I simulate a clients setup and possible setups. Sometimes for larger projects I'll run VMs from a datacenter but often it's much faster and more convenient to have everything local.

      I'm running a Lenovo P51 with a Xeon, 64 GB ECC, and two 1TB NVMe drives in a zfs-raid (Hello 4GB/s disk read speeds on a laptop).

      I'm totally only replying to this because I wanted to brag about my laptop...

    2. Re:I've come to expect LESS machine in 2018 by TeknoHog · · Score: 3, Interesting

      i5 is ok, but if you're compiling code you can peg things out fast. Not everybody is a web or cloud developer or admin. I've got an i7 Macbook pro, and I peg it out a lot with the fan going full aggro.

      There are much bigger differences between Intel CPUs than the i[357] designation. In the same year's releases, you can easily find an i5 that runs circles around an i7. I assume you're talking about two CPUs within the same market segment, such as ultrabook or mobile workstation.

      Of course, within the same series the i[357] differentiation does have some meaning, but in my experience it's not that big a difference. To me, i3 is crippled in some obvious way, but i7 doesn't offer that much over an i5.

      --
      Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
  2. Numeric keypad? by Shompol · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Do we really need numeric keypad? I haven't touched it in the past 20 years. I learned about it by accident: https://www.amazon.com/967428-... -- a separate numeric keypad ended up never being used. It's just there to create clutter and make finding the Enter key difficult.