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System76 Oryx Pro Linux Laptop is Now Thinner and Faster (betanews.com)
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.
System76 Oryx Pro Linux Laptop is Now Thinner and Faster
I don't want a "thinner" laptop. I want a laptop with a DVD drive, even if it makes the device slightly thicker and heavier.
(And I voted with my money last month: I purchased an HP with a DVD drive.)
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?
Obviously, 1G network is the most you will get on any laptop. 10 Gige remains clunky and expensive, and not needed for anything I can imagine doing with a laptop. That said, isn't it strange how 10G USB is already shipping on mid-priced desktops, but consumer Ethernet is still stuck at turn-of-the-century. What is the path forward, 10 Gige USB dongles?
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
Does the battery life still suck? That was the biggest problem with System76 machines.
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Not to mention, a proper "pro-grade" laptop should have at least two connections to AC power, for redundancy.
Hope the battery life is dramatically improved. System76 laptop are (or at least have been) based on Clevo laptops which have poor battery life.
Price is $1599. Not out of line if the quality is there. A bit of a surprise to see the VGA connector, but there are still a lot of VGA projectors out there for the road warriors among us. I guess, this looks like worth the money compared to the usual flimsy ultrabooks that sell for a similar price. And Apple... got an expensive one here with a display that developed white blotches all over it. Apparently common, and Apple tries to blame users. Rejected, permanently.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
System76 rejected to support LVFS for firmware updates https://blogs.gnome.org/hughsi...
Is Russia making laptops now?
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
No optical bay, no mobile phone radio, no smart card reader, no 7-row keyboard, no middle mouse button, volume controls crammed into a shift on the function keys. The article doesn't show the keyboard or monitor, which are extremely important when selecting a laptop. I found shots of it elsewhere at https://system76.com/guides/or.... There's just not a lot there that isn't different from any other laptop.
The professionals who never noticed PRISM getting into their brands?
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Almost no wiring closets support 10Gig over copper to the desktop workstation. So it utterly makes no sense at this point. 10gig over copper can't go very far. Most laptops don't even come with RJ45 ports, you use your type-C dock if you want hardwire or you use 802.11ac which is faster than 1gig copper if done right.
Who the heck makes a Linux laptop and leaves out the middle mouse button? I mean, come on. Know your target audience. I'll stick with Thinkpad laptops with mouse nubs and middle clicks, thank you very much.
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Obviously, 1G network is the most you will get on any laptop. 10 Gige remains clunky and expensive, and not needed for anything I can imagine doing with a laptop. That said, isn't it strange how 10G USB is already shipping on mid-priced desktops, but consumer Ethernet is still stuck at turn-of-the-century. What is the path forward, 10 Gige USB dongles?
I'm assuming he wants dual 1G ports, which is pretty cool if you can have it on laptop.
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.
No trackpoint.
Pffffttt
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.
Ideally, you'd be making the most of what you can run locally. Because otherwise, how much data does your use of RDP, SSH, X11-over-SSH, and VNC-over-SSH amount to per month? And how much would such a cellular data plan cost? Not everybody happens to live in an area where city buses offer Wi-Fi at no additional charge to paying riders.
That said, isn't it strange how 10G USB is already shipping on mid-priced desktops, but consumer Ethernet is still stuck at turn-of-the-century. What is the path forward, 10 Gige USB dongles?
Not really. People don't need 10GbE because they don't need to transfer anything locally at those speeds in most cases and their broadband isn't anywhere near that. Not to mention 10GbE switching is still very expensive compared to 1GbE. So 10GbE locally isn't of much use in the vast majority of uses cases. USB offers an option for transferring files universally inside your network, outside, etc. The average consumer is far more likely to need to copy to their external USB hard drive than to their NAS.
Of course high end consumer motherboards are already starting to ship with 10GbE LoM. It just hasn't trickled down into the mid-range and lower consumer products due to lack of demand.
I welcome the 8th generation Intel Core i7, 32GB RAM, M.2 storage, and the Nvidia 1060 or 1070. It looks like a Pro machine to me, I'm not sure why so many other comments are just whiny complaints. It packs a lot of power in a nice looking machine. For the tin foil hat folks, they also disabled the Intel management stuff (same as Purism https://puri.sm).
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At the time we bought our two Tuxedo laptops, last year, Syst76 proposed almost the same configs but didn't offer anything else than US keyboards -contrary to the German guys at Tuxedo...
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I've only seen DVI on some of the early HDTV's. Nothing that's been in made the last 10 years, probably longer. HDMI replaced DVI, and if you need to hook up DVI a converter is cheap.
A VGA input is still pretty common.
Were you trying to be clever by referencing stuff that haven't been on laptops for a couple decades? Is it somehow uncouth to want to know what the physical user interface is like? Are cellular data radios obsolete?