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Re:System76 Pangolin Linux-first laptop with AMD internals n... by Mikeb85 on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @08:10PM (#28375140)
Yup. Hard to pick this over a Dell XPS or a ThinkPad with Linux. Nevermind many other options that Linux can be installed onto.
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Re:System76 Pangolin Linux-first laptop with AMD internals n... by avl999 on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @12:19AM (#28376393)
On the System 76 website, this laptop upgraded to 16 Gigs of RAM comes at at $1288 for me.

Which Dell XPS with equivalent specs at 15 inch screen is cheaper let alone considerably cheaper? I can't seem to find on the Dell website https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/sr/laptops/xps-...

Gets even worse with 32 Gigs RAM- the cheapest Dell XPS is ~$500 more that this machine specced out to 32GB RAM https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/sr/laptops/xps-...

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Re:System76 Pangolin Linux-first laptop with AMD internals n... by cbsmith on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @10:55PM (#28376023)
The XPS won't have AMD, and the Thinkpads with Linux pre-installed are pretty limited.
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Re:System76 Pangolin Linux-first laptop with AMD internals n... by Mikeb85 on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @11:57PM (#28376284)
Lots of cheaper, equivalent laptops have AMD. The new Intel processors and GPUs are nice. The System76 is overpriced.
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Re:System76 Pangolin Linux-first laptop with AMD internals n... by istingray on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @01:12AM (#28376615)
There are no other Linux-first vendors besides System76 and Purism. Dell and Lenovo seem to put up with Linux as a side project.
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Re:System76 Pangolin Linux-first laptop with AMD internals n... by cbsmith on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @12:02PM (#28381541)
Yes, you can get cheaper laptops. Whether they are "equivalent" is a matter of what you consider "equivalent". Certainly you can get Clevo from other sources at a lower price. They just don't come with the same enduring Linux support, let alone niceties like coreboot, etc.
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