Subj : System76 building a brand new laptop, designed in-house
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From : LundukeJournal
Date : Sat Apr 08 2023 03:30:04

System76 building a brand new laptop, designed in-house

Date:
Sat, 08 Apr 2023 02:19:38 GMT

Description:
Built at their Denver, Colorado factory. Which is pretty cool.

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System76 makes some solidly good computers.  Ive long recommended their 
desktop machines  especially their in-house designed Thelio line  to Linux 
users looking for a quality, supported machine. 

They make well constructed  and well thought-out  Linux-powered towers with 
cases (and many parts) built from scratch right in their Denver factory.  
Impressive machines, without any question. 

The System76 laptop line, on the other hand, are to put it bluntly  rather 
generic.  They are nearly identical to laptops offered from other hardware 
resellers and, while often of good quality, they simply lack personality and 
originality. 

That appears to be changing with the in-development Virgo laptop. 

System76 CEO, Carl Richell, took to Twitter to show off some pictures of 
their work-in-progress laptop.  Saying: 

Virgo is the code name for the laptop well manufacture at our Denver factory. 
This is the LCD A panel milled from thin 6061 aluminum bar stock." 

Here is the back of the LCD aluminum panel (the top of the laptop): 

And, even though you arent likely to often see this side of it heres the 
inside of that panel (where the LCD would mount): 

The System76 CEO then proceeded to show off a prototype keyboard for their 
new, in-house laptop design.  It appears testing keyboard switches is a high 
priority for their team including providing the ability for end-users to 
change and move key caps on their own. 

Which, we can hope, gives us an indication that Project Virgo may have a high 
level of self-repair-ability and modularity (such as what we are seeing with 
the Framework laptop line). 

As to whether these Virgo laptops will be 100% made in the USA, Carl Richell 
had this to say: 

We'll manufacture quite a few parts in Denver but it will also include parts 
we design that are produced by overseas suppliers. 

As of right now there are a lot of unknowns. 

Ship date, size, weight, if components can be user replaced (battery, etc.), 
what CPU or GPU architectures will be used more questions than there are 
answers. 

But, considering the excellent work that System76 did with their Thelio line 
of Linux-powered desktops  and the promising early hints  Ill be keeping my 
eye on the progress of Virgo. 

Custom designed, boutique computer hardware that runs Linux makes me smile. 

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Link to news story:
https://lunduke.substack.com/p/system76-building-a-brand-new-laptop


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