System76 is moving product design and manufacturing in house

Re:System76 is moving product design and manufacturing in house by maerF0x0 on Thursday April 20, 2017 @01:44PM (#14158986)

At previous jobs we were just very generous with the chargers. Everyone having a single charger connector (MBP) is super valuable . This is good because then you dont bring a charger with you, because you know each meeting room has one or more chargers. Each seat in the office has a charger etc.

Companies sometimes say "Yeah but $90* X is too much" ... But it costs a lot to have people wiring/unwiring chargers all the time. 3 minutes at $1 a minute adds up to $90 really fast.

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Re:System76 is moving product design and manufacturing in house by michel-slm on Thursday April 20, 2017 @02:01PM (#14159156)

We do that at work. Things get complicated with the latest-generation MBP of course - now we have the old MagSafe charger, ThinkPad chargers, USB C chargers, as well as HDMI, DP, and USB-C Thunderbolt video connectors.

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Re:System76 is moving product design and manufacturing in house by maerF0x0 on Thursday April 20, 2017 @02:08PM (#14159217)

Yeah, i dont think apple knew they had a good thing with one charger. Even the lower wattage chargers worked in the bigger units etc.

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Re:System76 is moving product design and manufacturing in house by ashark on Friday April 21, 2017 @10:49AM (#14166051)

Our first few USBC MBP users in our office are having a ton of "fun" with that. Also the "which monitors do and don't work with this thing? Which adapter(s) do I need for this one again? Damnit that didn't work, lemme try this other one..." game. TONS of fun.

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