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

[Isaac (.ike) Levy]

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> 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* :)
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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.
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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! :)
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>> 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 this is a bit out of date but should give you an idea as to the hw specs.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.
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> -p

Unmmmmm, holy cow Pete- rgephy0 is a gigabit Ethernet port?! On a laptop?!  That's like a dream come true...

Guess I'll be pouring through the System76 site next :)

Rocket-
.ike


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