I am not in favor of this.
Having their own production line and design translates to higher costs, especially for a small and niche system builder like System76. I have no desire to fork out top dollar for a notebook utilizing the same commodity hardware as every single other notebook that is being sold on the market today.
Besides, I don't see what is wrong with selling rebranded Clevos like what every other boutique and performance laptop vendor is doing today. Clevos are widely regarded as the cream of the crop where consumer-grade notebooks are concerned, especially with regards to hardware accessibility and upgradability, as well as build quality. And speaking as someone who routinely switches out the WiFi card in notebooks to mess around with Linux drivers and compatibility, this is a huge plus.
I can only foresee System76 going down the 'closed up and soldered-down' route once they start making their own designs, as it's always the superslim ultrabooks that most people want nowadays. And that's already a huge minus in my book.
The only value I can see System76 beinging to the table, if they even have any interest in doing so, is to implement Coreboot + an appropriate UEFI payload in their machines .
Having their own production line and design translates to higher costs, especially for a small and niche system builder like System76. I have no desire to fork out top dollar for a notebook utilizing the same commodity hardware as every single other notebook that is being sold on the market today.
Besides, I don't see what is wrong with selling rebranded Clevos like what every other boutique and performance laptop vendor is doing today. Clevos are widely regarded as the cream of the crop where consumer-grade notebooks are concerned, especially with regards to hardware accessibility and upgradability, as well as build quality. And speaking as someone who routinely switches out the WiFi card in notebooks to mess around with Linux drivers and compatibility, this is a huge plus.
I can only foresee System76 going down the 'closed up and soldered-down' route once they start making their own designs, as it's always the superslim ultrabooks that most people want nowadays. And that's already a huge minus in my book.
The only value I can see System76 beinging to the table, if they even have any interest in doing so, is to implement Coreboot + an appropriate UEFI payload in their machines .
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