[talk] puri.sm laptops - Too good to be true?

[Okan Demirmen]

On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 7:31 PM, Isaac (.ike) Levy <ike at blackskyresearch.net>
wrote:

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> sent from my mobile
> > On Oct 6, 2017, at 12:49 PM, Pete Wright <pete at nomadlogic.org> wrote:
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> >> On 10/06/2017 09:44, Pete Wright wrote:
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> >>> So, with that tip-of-the-iceberg ranting done, this Purism rig seems
> >>> almost too good to be true- *for me* :)
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> 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! :)
> >>
> >> http://dmesgd.nycbug.org/index.cgi?do=view&id=3207
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> >> this is a bit out of date but should give you an idea as to the hw
> specs.
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> > should have just updated dmesgd before posting - this is the current
> status of this HW:
> > http://dmesgd.nycbug.org/index.cgi?do=view&id=3348
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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.
> >
> > -p
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> Unmmmmm, holy cow Pete- rgephy0 is a gigabit Ethernet port?! On a
> laptop?!  That's like a dream come true...
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​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...
​

> Guess I'll be pouring through the System76 site next :)
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​Yeah, interesting for sure...
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> Rocket-
> .ike
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> > --
> > Pete Wright
> > pete at nomadlogic.org
> > @nomadlogicLA
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