Yup, it’s absolutely on my list. I’m specifically interested in the 16”, but it’s not available yet. Additionally, the soonest I could get the 13” is Q4. I’m wanting something before then.

Thank you for the feedback!

That StarFighter looks crazy. I too bad it’s 5 months out. Thanks for the recommendation!

To add, while I still enjoy my laptop, my biggest issues are battery life and heat. This thing could fry an egg when it’s under load. At best, I get 3 hours of usage on battery even with a lower resolution, low brightness, power management utilities optimizing performance, and running on my integrated GPU vs the nvidia GPU.

Here’s a link to the post. Oddly enough, it doesn’t show up in my profile either. It’s like it just doesn’t exist any longer.

https://beehaw.org/post/5367827

That’s an interesting point. I could buy my wife a new Air and update her M1 to run Linux. Thanks for the suggestion!

Yup. Same here.

I’m in DevSecOps, and do a lot of heavy development and testing, as well as PoCs. Ideally, I’d have 128GB of RAM but laptops aren’t quite there yet. The HD is a Samsung SSD.

I usually have the GPU set to integrated graphics unless I’m doing some heavy load in which case I’ll switch over to the nvidia GPU. I also switch between power modes depending on my use case at the time.

There’s not a lot I can do with the CPU other than the optimizations I’ve done thus far. It’s actually one of the main reasons I’m looking to upgrade so I can have better performance per watt and take advantage of various cores depending on workload.

I like the idea of a System76 machine, but have never used one IRL. Nor do I know of anyone who has one. As a result, I’m hesitant on making the leap without some level of expertise/experience to back up the decision.

My wife and I meal prep M-F as well. We solved the weekend problem by ordering children portions or splitting a single adult order. The portion sizes served adults are far too large. When going to a sit down restaurant, we usually leave with leftovers.

@apis figured it out. I somehow blocked the community without realizing I had done so. Thank you for the support, it’s very much appreciated.

I’ll take a look. Thank you for the recommendation.

Yeah, the RAM is a hard requirement. I’d like more if I could. My desktop is AMD so I’m not against using them at all if it makes sense to do so. I’ve also enjoyed Lenovo in the past but couldn’t find a well enough equipped unit for my liking.

I still don’t see it. I checked three machines at this point. Thank you for checking.

I’m keeping it as I still need more machines for testing. Sorry!

I tend to stick to Debian derivatives for the most part, but I do a lot of work across multiple flavors depending on what I’m working on at any given time. Sometimes I’m in RHEL, sometimes SLED, sometimes Ubuntu, etc.

You nailed it. I have no idea how the heck that might’ve happened. I didn’t do anything that purposely should have caused that.

I develop software and do a lot of PoC with VMs and containers.