system76.com— system 76 has not been featured on digg in over a month with dell's recent microsoft deal the timing seems right. They have a community forum, 1st rate tech support, and affordable linux pc's.
May 9, 2007View in Crawl 4
I STRONGLY disagree.Supporting System 76, yes. Boycotting Dell, Bloody hell no.Buying Dell Linux PCs means having the chance of a *real* effect on hardware support and market recognition by companies that won't ever shift their asses unless they feel they need to.Not many people are more aware of how nasty Microsoft has been than me, but let me tell you - we cannot allow our community to crap all over itself every time Microsoft wants us to.We cannot allow ourselves to be easily decapitated by Microsoft. We've done it with Novell, and for my part, it stops there.
Apple no longer ship good quality laptops. Sad, but it's true. Their cases crack, they get really, hot surfaces under the hands go _yellow_ and they feel ugly to type on compared to many other 'PC' laptops. The iBooks were bad and it looks like the MacBooks are just as bad.The G3 however, that was an amazing laptop. Apple have outsourced all their production to a Taiwanese company (Quanta computing make all of them) that just knocks them out with cheap components these days.Sadly you won't get better than a Thinkpad or Asus these days I think.
I'm in the same boat when it comes to resolution. I won't buy a laptop with a resolution smaller than 1680x1050. I'd love to buy from System 76, but they'd need to step up with better screens.
There is a difference between being affordable and more expensive. No, you won't get one of these on ultra-mega mail in rebate sale, but most people looking to buy a new quality computer could afford one of these machines.
etslinuxMay 10, 2007
YES!This company is amazing. Linux guys, buy buy buy!
blackadderiiiMay 10, 2007
I STRONGLY disagree.Supporting System 76, yes. Boycotting Dell, Bloody hell no.Buying Dell Linux PCs means having the chance of a *real* effect on hardware support and market recognition by companies that won't ever shift their asses unless they feel they need to.Not many people are more aware of how nasty Microsoft has been than me, but let me tell you - we cannot allow our community to crap all over itself every time Microsoft wants us to.We cannot allow ourselves to be easily decapitated by Microsoft. We've done it with Novell, and for my part, it stops there.
ordminuteMay 10, 2007
Apple no longer ship good quality laptops. Sad, but it's true. Their cases crack, they get really, hot surfaces under the hands go _yellow_ and they feel ugly to type on compared to many other 'PC' laptops. The iBooks were bad and it looks like the MacBooks are just as bad.The G3 however, that was an amazing laptop. Apple have outsourced all their production to a Taiwanese company (Quanta computing make all of them) that just knocks them out with cheap components these days.Sadly you won't get better than a Thinkpad or Asus these days I think.
skabberMay 10, 2007
These guys aren't the only Ubuntu dealer in town. I got my machine from <a class="user" href="http://groovix.com/groovix.html">http://groovix.com/groovix.html</a> and it rocks.
Closed AccountMay 11, 2007
I'm in the same boat when it comes to resolution. I won't buy a laptop with a resolution smaller than 1680x1050. I'd love to buy from System 76, but they'd need to step up with better screens.
kevinlyfellowMay 13, 2007
@crazybritYou can't run flash on a 64 bit linux (well actually you sorta can), but you can run 32 bit linux on a 64 bit processor.
kevinlyfellowMay 13, 2007
There is a difference between being affordable and more expensive. No, you won't get one of these on ultra-mega mail in rebate sale, but most people looking to buy a new quality computer could afford one of these machines.
misteruexpectedNov 21, 2011
the computing in linux!!