Next reseller of the same OEM laptop ordered somewhere in China.<p>Check the right side of this laptop:
<a href="https://stationx.rocks/products/spitfire" rel="nofollow">https://stationx.rocks/products/spitfire</a><p>and compare with Galago pro:
<a href="https://system76.com/laptops/galago" rel="nofollow">https://system76.com/laptops/galago</a><p>sides:
<a href="https://screenshots.firefox.com/0I2YsDmIvbKuYbr3/stationx.rocks" rel="nofollow">https://screenshots.firefox.com/0I2YsDmIvbKuYbr3/stationx.ro...</a>
and
<a href="https://d1vhcvzji58n1j.cloudfront.net/assets/products/galp3/ports-right_1280-32d6cdd4b5.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://d1vhcvzji58n1j.cloudfront.net/assets/products/galp3/...</a><p>and I've seen this model at least on two other resellers.
The reason these look similar to System76 is because they are the exact same Clevo chassis. The bezels are awful, but I give credit to System76 and Station X and any other that works to sell and maintain Linux machines.<p>My next Linux laptop may be from one of these companies if they can work with Clevo to stop making the screen bezels so horrendously large.
Aside:<p><i>Station X</i> was the wartime codename for the Bletchley Park facility where (amongst others) Alan Turing worked on breaking German Enigma-enciphered traffic and Tommy Flowers built the Colossus electronic calculator for breaking encrypted teleprinter codes (<i>Geheimscriber</i>).<p>All the laptops are named after WW2-era fighter planes. The desktop is named after a long-range wartime strategic bomber.
Looks similar to <a href="https://system76.com/" rel="nofollow">https://system76.com/</a>.<p>I got the 17" Kudu for work. Honestly, I'm now aware that a 17" screen on a laptop is just too impractically big, but the hardware has been great.
Entroware also resell these laptops - at a better price - <a href="https://www.entroware.com/store/laptops" rel="nofollow">https://www.entroware.com/store/laptops</a><p>All I want from my next laptop is to be powered via USB-C. I'm sick of dragging around multiple different chargers for my gadgets.
Price-wise they seem quite competitive on paper. I'm curious as to what the build quality & peripherals are like. In my experience the real difference between a regular and top-of-the-line laptop is in the small things.<p>They're also lacking a 4k laptop, which I would highly recommend to anyone used to working on the road. (or who has to show of work to clients in person).
Why the keyboard layout? End next to up key? Insert above backspace? What's wrong with the classic 2x3 block?<p>Another issue I have is with the spacing between F keys. Looks like an afterthought to Fn+? keys.<p>Not to mention there is not a single clear picture of the keyboard on the product page...<p><a href="https://stationx.rocks/products/manjaro-special-edition-spitfire" rel="nofollow">https://stationx.rocks/products/manjaro-special-edition-spit...</a>
The way to attract Linux users is to tempt them away from their Thinkpads. The way to do that is to offer a laptop with a trackpoint, this little red dot:<p><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=trackpoint&tbm=isch" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/search?q=trackpoint&tbm=isch</a>
The only laptop I would consider upgrading to from my Thinkpad X220 would either be a modern Thinkpad x270 (just for a hardware upgrade because I like the form factor) or to something that provides a similar keyboard, docking, and modern-ish hardware.<p>Most of my work happens over SSH, my laptop is currently fast enough for Netflix, email, and web browsing. I'm capped at 2 1920x1080 monitors but this is livable.<p>I think if someone took the old X220 generation Thinkpads, upgraded the internals, and kept the keyboard and docking that they would sell like hotcakes.
I dislike the website. The reasons are:<p>1. "Beautiful machines" is the first point being made. This is superficial.<p>2. "All distros welcome". Turns out that installing a distro is the least of my concerns when it comes to a laptop.<p>3. The first thing you notice is this video with the multiethnic group of people from which one of them is at the front as well as happier/dancing. This is inconsistent and weird. What is the message being communicated with this? How is it relevant? Sell me a goddamn laptop instead. Put a picture of a laptop or something.<p>In order to be constructive, what I would rather emphasize is: laptops are hardware. The intended audience here are tech enthusiasts. I would rather speak about hardware specs, or something distinctive about the hardware, compatibility, the ergonomics... post a benchmark. Something that is actually better than "beautiful laptops" and a awkward video. This is common sense.<p>This is how a system is sold: <a href="https://www.apple.com/imac-pro/" rel="nofollow">https://www.apple.com/imac-pro/</a> . Note: I do not own one and I am not affiliated with that company, just making a point.<p>Then... just a reminder: most laptops are potentially a Linux laptop.
> We create drop-dead gorgeous machines - designed and customised to run Linux - and only Linux.<p>Only linux? Seems like a weird limitation... or am I understanding this wrong?
> We are Linux advocates who believe in providing you the most free and open devices to create your most important work.<p>Does that mean they have a disabled/cleaned ME like the purism machines? Or what does "free and open" mean in this case?
> <i>Gorgeous</i> Linux laptops<p>First thing I noticed on these pictures, was the ugly sticker left side underneath the keyboard. Sorry, but such trifles got nothing to do with gorgeous. Also, black camera frame, huge display bezel, and non-centered touchpads are, imho, a nogo if you wanna call it gorgeous.
I had been planning to replace my faithful 5yr old Samsung Ultrabook with a Dell XPS. But I like the idea of buying from a UK supplier based in Bletchley Park and using a lot of WWII branding. I do need a win32 dev env, but I guess I could run Windows inside a VM.
"By Linux nerds for Linux nerds." and all the people in the picture are guys with glasses a couple of man from different nationalities. Thanks for the stereotype. Women in tech are going to be very proud of this image.
Any company trying to make it's name in the Linux market has to field stuff at lower pricepoints. I can buy a perfectly good Acer netbook for 300$ and install Ubuntu in a matter of minutes. If you cannot do small and cheap, the thing that Linux can do better than anyone else, you aren't going to win over many people.
Love the video ad but its pretty hard for me to consider buying one of these. I want on site repair/replacement... not 'user serviceable' try to fix it yourself... my last three HP laptops were all over $2500 and all needed on-site service at some point.
If any of you visit eastern europe or countries where pirating a copy of windows is common practice, you can get linux laptops everywhere, sometimes the same machine is discounted because it's a display unit with freeDOS (who'd buy a machine you can't test)
<i>"All distros covered "</i> = No distro really fully covered.<p>The world doesn't need another random laptop which you might be able to install Linux on. What's needed is a Linux laptop that just works(tm) - all the time, every time, with the most common peripherals.
It says "MacBook Pro killer". Is there an option to have a high-resolution screen (e.g. 2880 x 1800, like Retina)? All I found was Full HD IPS 1920 x 1080.
what i'd like is a portable "mainframe" you can remote into from older (or cheaper) machines, something you can still in a backpack along with a chromebook.
I had to close within seconds of dealing with this web design, to keep my sanity.<p>Adding that to the pushing of one distribution over the others... way to utterly misunderstand your target market.<p>I doubt they'll be selling many. Morons, the bunch of them.
is 8gb of ram really enough these days? I know for my development and multitasking I'd feel underpowered with 16gb, but 16 is at least a decent baseline.
Ugh, another wannabe macbook. If I want a mac, I'll just buy one. Please give me a good quality linux laptop that isn't trying to be a macbook.