System76 launching ARM Pro server with 96 cores up to 1TB ECC RAM and 32TB storage

Re:System76 launching ARM Pro server with 96 cores up to 1TB... by nkkollaw on Thursday March 02, 2017 @05:05PM (#13778696)

I see that they're releasing a new laptop: https://system76.com/laptops/galago

This is probably the first laptop from them that I could consider buying, judging solely on that small picture of it.

Still super-thick, and I don't know if I would feel comfortable buying that over the XPS, but at least it's got HiDPI, which for the price they sell their laptops for I feel should be included.

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Re:System76 launching ARM Pro server with 96 cores up to 1TB... by freehunter on Thursday March 02, 2017 @08:31PM (#13780050)

>Still super-thick

You make your laptops super thin and people complain about ports and only 16GB of RAM and no repairability. You make your laptops repairable with three different kinds of USB ports plus HDMI and 32GB of RAM, and people complain it's super-thick.

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Re:System76 launching ARM Pro server with 96 cores up to 1TB... by icebraining on Thursday March 02, 2017 @09:09PM (#13780215)

It's like different people have different opinion on stuff!

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Re:System76 launching ARM Pro server with 96 cores up to 1TB... by freehunter on Thursday March 02, 2017 @09:19PM (#13780252)

But they all share one thing in common: complaining on the Internet about products that aren't marketed toward them.

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Re:System76 launching ARM Pro server with 96 cores up to 1TB... by icebraining on Friday March 03, 2017 @04:04AM (#13781631)

From the laptop's marketing page: "Thin".

Absent from the page: "repairable", "three USB ports", "32GB of RAM".

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Re:System76 launching ARM Pro server with 96 cores up to 1TB... by 2bluesc on Thursday March 02, 2017 @05:15PM (#13778778)

I owned the previous 14" 1080p Haswell powered Galago Ultra Pro built by Clevo. Build quality was terrible and battery life was horrific when compared to Dell Precision 15 (aka XPS). I quick quickly sold it and haven't missed it.

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Re:System76 launching ARM Pro server with 96 cores up to 1TB... by asldkfjasfd7 on Thursday March 02, 2017 @05:23PM (#13778835)

Agreed about build quality. Our small office ordered a couple models in 2014-ish, to evaluate them.

Lifted the LCD to find it had some much flex, it felt like tagboard. Plastic housings were incredibly flimsy feeling. Those 10" netbooks that were popular for a while never felt as cheap.

We kept them as emergency backups and used one as a server, tucked in the server closet for a bit, but otherwise stuck with Dell.

Who knows, maybe the aluminum one will remove those problems.

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Re:System76 launching ARM Pro server with 96 cores up to 1TB... by randomsofr on Thursday March 02, 2017 @06:04PM (#13779182)

Judging from that video, it seems they don't spend a lot of money on advertising.

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Re:System76 launching ARM Pro server with 96 cores up to 1TB... by nkkollaw on Thursday March 02, 2017 @07:01PM (#13779565)

Yes, that was pretty bad.

It almost seems like they're showing how thick it is...

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Re:System76 launching ARM Pro server with 96 cores up to 1TB... by wybiral on Thursday March 02, 2017 @11:45PM (#13780800)

I've seen that elf movie. You can do crazy things with perspective...

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Re:System76 launching ARM Pro server with 96 cores up to 1TB... by koolba on Friday March 03, 2017 @07:00AM (#13782285)

That's a beautiful ad!

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