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Re:System76 is moving product design and manufacturing in house by solatic on Thursday April 20, 2017 @02:21PM (#14159321)
I don't think System76 would be wise to get into the Ultrabook market from the get-go because of the much tighter thermal/power requirements.

If you're going to get into the laptop market with a focus on maintainability, your competition is the T470, not Ultrabooks in general or the Thinkpad X1 Carbon in particular, which, as your Reddit link pointed out, has a downside in that the memory is soldered to the motherboard.

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Re:System76 is moving product design and manufacturing in house by vladimir-y on Thursday April 20, 2017 @02:28PM (#14159401)
T470 is also an ultrabook as it comes only with ULV CPUs, but it provides a certain level of upgradeability.

Soldered memory is not a real downside if 16GB is enough to run all needed tasks, as it helps to make laptop more lightweight and portable (1.144 kg !! and in the same time Carbon has a decent set of ports). So Lenovo provides a good choice for the folks that need to maintain something - T470 and for the users that do not do any hardware upgrading - X1 Carbon (gen5).

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