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A nice change from the LED lighted boxes you often see for high end machines.

I’m hoping they do a nice laptop. HN will need to put their money where there mouth is if System76 comes up with a thick laptop with replaceable battery, upgradeable RAM, lots of non USB-C ports and a keyboard with some travel. A niche System76 could really fit into.

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You mean like the Serval? Or the Gazelle, if you want a slimmer version of the same thing? Both have upgradeable RAM, lots of non USB-C ports, and replaceable batteries. Both are quite handy systems.

Yes, the Serval and Gazelle with a modern Thelio look. They really looked dated as they are.

Serval is very dated, but the Gazelle is darn "close" to a nice modern look & feel... for a Linux laptop it's about as close to MBA as you're gonna get. But overall I'd agree an "across the board" update would be most welcome. S76 makes great hardware and their design aesthetics have been steadily improving, I'd keep an eye out here, don't discount them.

This is the Gazelle you are talking about? https://system76.com/laptops/gazelle

With the circa-2009 Acer plastic look? Big plastic air fins, feet that stick out the bottom to stop it sliding into t bad properly, huge (huge) bezel around the screen?

The Oryx looks much more modern - are you sure you aren't talking about that? https://system76.com/laptops/oryx

I think they must have rev’d the Oryx (or I forgot) but yeah, that’s the more modern looking model.

Thanks for mentioning those. The Kudu is pretty nice too: https://system76.com/laptops/kudu

Ick. Looks like the $199 HP laptop I bought at an office supply store on Black Friday a few years back.

Every laptop either looks like this, or a MacBook clone.

I'll buy one anyway, simply because it's supposed to be made in America. But I can't find anywhere on the web site where they're made.

Currently they laptops are based on clevo devices with lots of work added on top. But they stated that laptops will be the next step after desktops. Just don't hold your breath as it gets a lot harder at that form factor

You mean a pre-2015 Thinkpad?

The Galage Pro, is that really that expandable and that light. i7, 32GB ram, 6TB SSD.

Found the compromise, the battery is tiny.

Instead I hope they'll build an iMac competitor. I would love to have one on my desk.

That is exactly what I want.

Would a small format desktop with a vesa mount for the back of your monitor, like a NUC, be an acceptable compromise?

The main problem I've seen eith that sort of thing is that there still aren’t many 5k monitors on the market and I’m not sure the LG one will work with Linux over USB-C. (Would love to be wrong on that if anyone knows better).

> A nice change

The wood finish? Really? A desktop that looks like a trash can, and now this?

My thoughts exactly. A plain black box without any windows or lights is a refreshing change of pace. Wood grain just seems like kind of a joke on a PC.

I disagree but I recognize this is a subjective thing.

The Fractal cases (apart from the Meshify C) are already like that, in fact, there is a whole design trend providing elegant black boxes without gamery LED stuff. Look at the Define C for example, or the Thermaltake Suppressor F51 as one of the clones.

Yeah. It's a nice change from anything out there that isn't a fully custom build. Black, beige, white, gray boxes, often with lots of LEDs or plexiglass windows.

Maybe because for every one purchased they plant a tree?

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