If you can’t find something that meets your needs, let us know what we need to add! We can often offer options beyond those in the system configurator.
Is System76 a non-profit by any chance?
It’s a privately-owned company. Profits are used for R&D in both Pop!_OS, and thereby COSMIC; as well as expanding the hardware manufacturing capabilities for the line of laptops and desktops. So every purchase of a System76 system is directly funding Pop!_OS & COSMIC. Neither would exist without the hardware sales.
On the hardware side of things, a key area of interest is funding R&D on manufacturing laptops in-house in Denver with Virgo. We’re also passionate about the pursuit of open source firmware, and therefore a lot of R&D goes into open firmware projects which benefit all in in the hardware space. Purism, for example, uses System76 EC in their products.
On the software side, Pop!_OS engineers are funneling all efforts into improvements to Pop!_OS and the development of COSMIC. By extension, this also includes the community support we provide here and elsewhere. A key benefit of being funded by desktop hardware sales is that the desktop experience is vital to our core business. Therefore the Linux desktop is what we care about most.
This is why there’s a lot of effort into optimizing and improving the experience that Pop!_OS offers as a Linux desktop OS, and why the team has a very user-centric focus when choosing projects to work on. COSMIC will enable us to better align with a lot of needs that people want from Pop!_OS in a desktop environment. So if you enjoy using Pop!_OS and want COSMIC, then the next time you need to buy a system, think about giving System76 a chance.
I’m probably not the first to ask but a cheaper laptop option. I’m not sure if that’s even feasible. It would just be an easier sell when suggesting laptops to someone. Otherwise I think for me the next device I would buy would be the Lemur for the battery life. I’m glad I have my Oryx pro in-case my desktop dies again and I’m stuck waiting on parts but I really would enjoy some longer battery life.
I replied to him on twitter, but posting it here too just to share with others
This might sounds dumb, but a Thelio that was oriented more horizontally? For a HTPC or home game console type setup? The new steam update adds hardware acceleration and the new gamepadui and I kinda want a PC in my living room instead of an Xbox/PS5
I know that the USP of pop OS is that it is a linux distro with good integration with nvidia gpus and drivers but is it the reason that the laptop lineup has no options with an AMD dGPU. Or is it a framework like situation where your company is too small to get the attention of AMD.
Edit : Please don’t take it as a slight towards system76. What I meant to say was that amd does not have the revenue of Intel or Nvidia and so they only partner with big OEMs
There’s a general lack in availability to purchase boards with this configuration from manufacturers. Intel/NVIDIA and even AMD/NVIDIA hybrid systems are more readily accessible. Systems with NVIDIA graphics are also popular in part due to how many in the tech field require CUDA. At the time of this post, you can purchase a Pangolin which features a Ryzen 6800U with integrated AMD graphics though. Which provides decent graphics performance and battery life.
System76 does have the attention of Intel, and our firmware team works with them on open source firmware project. I believe some may even be using System76 laptops for their open firmware development. I’m hopeful that things will get better on the AMD side with openSIL because it’d be great to offer AMD systems with open firmware, rather than that being an Intel-exclusive feature.
I’d personally love a nice router. Something like a cheaper configuration of the meerkat with stripped down ports and 2+ ethernet ports, but maybe that’s too niche of a product.
