The System76 Lemur Pro is light, thin, repairable, and upgradeable. It’s the best Linux laptop we’ve tested.

The System76 Lemur Pro is light, thin, repairable, and upgradeable. It’s the best Linux laptop we’ve tested.

  • MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works
    634·
    8 months ago

    The Lemur Pro starts at $1,150 for an Intel i5 machine with 8 GB of RAM and a 256-GB SSD.

    Seems a bit expensive no? About dead on with macbook air pricing

    if you’re strictly looking at value, it’s a better value to buy a macbook air with m2 and the same stats and just install linux on it.

    • nathris@lemmy.ca
      20·
      8 months ago

      For the nearly $1500 spec they tested you can basically get a Framework 16, with much better upgradability and a 2560x1600 165hz vrr display.

      • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        1·
        8 months ago

        I’m looking for a new laptop and really don’t know much about hardware these days (been running my old 2015 toshiba sattellite lol, I usually just have hand-me-downs), but I’m looking at getting something that doesn’t make me sacrifice my firstborn to an eldritch being to change the goddamn battery. So far I have sys76 and framework on the list, are there any other manufacturers I should also look at? And any reasons I should or should not get a laptop from any of these companies (like this one above, which is a point for framework)?

        • governorkeagan@lemdro.idEnglish
          1·
          8 months ago

          I was looking at getting a laptop from System76 but the shipping to Europe is insane. I’ve heard some good things about Tuxedo Computers. I don’t have personal experience with any of them so can’t comment on that

    • los_chill@programming.devEnglish
      171·
      8 months ago

      I was doing a similar breakdown back when I bought my System76. The difference was upgradability. If I ever thought I might need more RAM I’d have to buy that up front on the MacBook air, putting its price over 1,700 off the shelf for the max ram. System76 cost close to the base MacBook air model, but I can add RAM and upgrades at my choosing, find the best price, and install them myself when I need them. That was worth it for me.

      • Tak@lemmy.ml
        2·
        8 months ago

        The issue is that the M1 (M2 and M3) chips are way more efficient than X86 chips and they gets really good battery life compared to standard PC hardware. So I can hate on the software, the price, the lack of expand-ability, and so much more but I can’t get that efficiency anywhere else.

        System76 doesn’t have some massively efficient ARM chip and system to separate them from any other windows laptop maker I just put linux on. You buy System76 because you like System76. I can live with that and I am very willing to spend more for less in places I feel matter.

    • onlinepersona@programming.devEnglish
      11·
      8 months ago

      Install linux on the m2? Is Asahi linux good enough to daily drive already? 😮

      (Also, why give Apple money?)