System76 Lemur Pro Laptop Offers 14 Hour Battery Life, Coreboot Firmware For $1099+

[davidhendricks]

Great to see a sleek laptop with open-source firmware on both host* and EC side, reduced/disabled ME, and designed to run Linux.

*as open as it can get on x86 these days, anyway

[darkdragon-001]

There honestly isn't much point in a laptop having an Ethernet port in a world where USB-3 Ethernet adapters exist — some of which can also double as a USB 3 hub.

Why does it have a MicroSD Card reader, a HDMI port, a headphone/microphone combo and a separate AC connector? There are adapters for all of this and one could go down the road like Apple with their MacBook with a single USB-C port. Obviously, many customers value the variety of ports one can access without buying, carrying around and plugging in adapters.

[mmstick]

No RJ45 ethernet port like all theit other laptops

There honestly isn't much point in a laptop having an Ethernet port in a world where USB-3 Ethernet adapters exist — some of which can also double as a USB 3 hub.

[birdie]

Two memory sticks with different sizes? Is this single channel only??

AMD and Intel CPUs have supported mixed dual-channel mode for quite some time.

[darkdragon-001]

No RJ45 ethernet port like all of their other laptops

[lucrus]

No Ryzen, but at least is not nvidia.

[starshipeleven]

Two memory sticks with different sizes? Is this single channel only??

Intel hardware can dualchannel with different sized sticks since a long while, with "flex memory" feature http://www.laptopmemoryupgrades.co.u...ory-technology

But apart from that, it's probably just to save some bucks, RAM is expensive

[starshipeleven]

Just three my monthly salaries. Yeah, a great offer.

stop being poor? Problem solved.

[pal666]

Just three my monthly salaries.

keep us posted

[andyprough]

Sounds sweet, but I would have to upgrade. Once you've tried 16gb of memory on a laptop you'll never want to downsize.