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[–] mellowheat@suppo.fi 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Does System76 have right now, or upcoming, any laptops that can match Apple's hardware quality? They seem like Clevo rebrands.

[–] git@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They have been working on a fully in-house open source laptop for some time but I don't know the ETA on it.

[–] ExLisper@linux.community 7 points 1 year ago

What's wrong with clevo rebrands?

They plan on starting to make their own laptops but there aren’t many details available. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/system76-shows-off-first-images-of-its-virgo-linux-laptop-design

[–] lud@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As far as I know, all the so called Linux laptops are rebranded white label products from China

[–] kzhe@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Starlabs is not AFAIK, same with PINE

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] kzhe@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] bour@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Starlabs laptops are great. I can't wait to see a review of thestarfighters laptop!

[–] kzhe@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hear the battery life is poor but not sure.

[–] bour@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I get ~8 hours on my starbook MkVI, with Bluetooth disabled.

[–] massivefailure@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

apple's hardware quality

I laughed. Cheaply made Chinese builds sold at a huge markup to make it look good to rich idiots doesn't mean quality.

[–] mellowheat@suppo.fi 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm sorry, but I absolutely cannot understand this. Have you held a modern macbook, like a macbook m2 air, in your hands?

I don't like their software a lot, but the hardware is top of the industry in almost every way after they released their own CPUs. For what you get, they are cheap.

Before Apple Silicon they were more meh, though.