<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 7:31 PM, Isaac (.ike) Levy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ike@blackskyresearch.net" target="_blank">ike@blackskyresearch.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
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<span class="">> On Oct 6, 2017, at 12:49 PM, Pete Wright <<a href="mailto:pete@nomadlogic.org">pete@nomadlogic.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> On 10/06/2017 09:44, Pete Wright wrote:<br>
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>>> So, with that tip-of-the-iceberg ranting done, this Purism rig seems<br>
>>> almost too good to be true- *for me* :)<br>
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>> i'm in the same boat as you .ike in regards to MBP and macOS in general. i got myself a System76 latptop a couple months ago and i'm actually really happy with it. the design of the laptop shell isn't super sexy tbh - but it does have a matte LCD screen which i'm really happy about since i work outside frequently.<br>
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>> i've been doing my hacking of the updated drm-next code on this guy as well - so gfx have been pretty great if you don't mind running current on freebsd. my understanding is that openbsd also has support for the i915 gfx as well, but i'm not %100 sure it's fully accelerated - but i suspect stability would be much better! :)<br>
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>> <a href="http://dmesgd.nycbug.org/index.cgi?do=view&id=3207" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://dmesgd.nycbug.org/<wbr>index.cgi?do=view&id=3207</a><br>
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>> this is a bit out of date but should give you an idea as to the hw specs.<br>
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> should have just updated dmesgd before posting - this is the current status of this HW:<br>
> <a href="http://dmesgd.nycbug.org/index.cgi?do=view&id=3348" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://dmesgd.nycbug.org/<wbr>index.cgi?do=view&id=3348</a><br>
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> this is using stock freebsd 12-CURRENT + an incoming patch for my iwm wifi nic. gfx are now powered by the official "drm-next-kmod" pkg which is sweet.<br>
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> -p<br>
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</span>Unmmmmm, holy cow Pete- rgephy0 is a gigabit Ethernet port?! On a laptop?! That's like a dream come true...<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div style="font-family:courier new,monospace" class="gmail_default">How is a gigabit Ethernet port a dream yet to come true for you on a laptop? I haven't had anything but gig ports on laptops for quite some time now...</div><div style="font-family:courier new,monospace" class="gmail_default"></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Guess I'll be pouring through the System76 site next :)<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div style="font-family:courier new,monospace" class="gmail_default">Yeah, interesting for sure...</div><div style="font-family:courier new,monospace" class="gmail_default"></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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> Pete Wright<br>
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