laptop-suggestions

This is very exciting. After Dell and HP dropped out over the past year, I've been waiting for a company other than Lenovo to build a well-designed laptop with a pointing stick. This company being System76 makes the news even better, since I know the hardware will receive first-class support on Linux. I'm glad that System76 is taking the community laptop suggestions seriously (implementing a ThinkPad-style TrackPoint is the top suggestion by number of thumbs up: https://github.com/system76/laptop-suggestions/issues/25).

System76 is still collecting laptop design suggestions here: https://github.com/system76/laptop-suggestions The most popular suggestion (by number of upvotes) is to add a TrackPoint-style pointer: https://github.com/system76/laptop-suggestions/issues/25 I hope they deliver.

In November 2019, System76 announced that it would start designing and developing laptops in-house starting January 2020. The development process was estimated to take 2-3 years. The first generation of System76’s in-house desktop line (Thelio) took over 2 years to develop. - Article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2019/11/20/syste... - HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21586422 If you have any suggestions for the laptop design, System76 is collecting feedback here: https://github.com/system76/laptop-suggestions

System76 is working on laptops designed in-house. It's a work in progress. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2019/11/20/syste... You can offer suggestions for their laptop manufacturing project here: https://github.com/system76/laptop-suggestions

System76 is likely going to fab their own laptops (instead of using Clevo as an ODM) within the next 2-3 years (just a hunch I have based on how long it took for them to go from talking about fabricating desktops to doing it). They've started asking people to share what they want here: https://github.com/system76/laptop-suggestions/issues If you really want a great Linux-first laptop, copy/paste all of your complaints/desires for hardware from here into that repository. Top of the list for me: - High powered laptop (e.g. 47W TDP CPU) without a graphics card. - Centered keyboard without a numpad. - 14" 1080p option for high-end laptops. Edit - Formatting + I used to work there, but this is NOT based on anything from when I did - just speculation. It was an AWESOME place to work as a Linux nerd though. :)

Agreed - you should upvote here: https://github.com/system76/laptop-suggestions/issues/22