[lug] Linux laptop

[Elyse M Grasso]

I own 3 System76  laptops and love them. I get emails about their new 
models and lust after them, but the current workhorses are so solid I'm 
not likely to need to replacement any time soon.

My 'traveling' laptop is a Lemur from 2016 . If/when it dies I'll 
replace it with something that uses solid state instead of a hard drive.

The others are 2 slightly different models of 17" Gazelle -- one from 
2012 and one from 2015 that I got when the hard drive died in the older 
one, which was slightly under-specced for running virtual clients. (Then 
I replaced the hard drive in the 'smaller' one, so I still have it 
available as a backup in case the main one dies...)

I need to make plans to upgrade the LCS Ubuntu on all of them later this 
year...

On 4/29/20 1:09 PM, Andrew Kelling wrote:
> I would also like to point out System 76 is a local Colorado company 
> out of Denver. I have met a few of their developers and they are 
> smart, solid people.
>
> I personally want to get my hands on the hardware to see how I like 
> their keyboards. I am kind of a Lenovo fan boy when it comes to 
> keyboards and the Trackpoint. That being said  I am really considering 
> getting a System 76 in the near future
>
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 20:06 David L. Willson <DLWillson at thegeek.nu 
> <mailto:DLWillson at thegeek.nu>> wrote:
>
>     I have a System76 Oryx Pro 2 that buries every other machine I
>     have. Fast and reliable.
>
>     But, I lust after the KFocus. If I can just get my boss to buy
>     it... I mean, I need it for work. This old computer of mine just
>     doesn't cut it anymore. ;-)
>
>
>
>     -------- Original message --------
>     From: John Karns <johnkarns at gmail.com <mailto:johnkarns at gmail.com>>
>     Date: 4/28/20 7:26 PM (GMT-07:00)
>     To: "Boulder (Colorado) Linux Users Group -- General Mailing List"
>     <lug at lug.boulder.co.us <mailto:lug at lug.boulder.co.us>>
>     Subject: Re: [lug] Linux laptop
>
>     A bit off point, perhaps - Call me old fashioned, but anyone else
>     prefer something older like one of the higher end (for its time)
>     legacy Dells? Probably isn't quite as fast as these models, but is
>     fine for casual use, and at least it has a swappable DVD / 2nd HDD
>     bay, is dockable, shielded with a metal plate bottom, and has ports
>     for legacy peripherals! And fitting these dinosaurs with a SDD goes a
>     good way toward shortening the performance gap, IMO. Close enough for
>     me, anyway!
>
>     It is nice to see that Linux laptops are still showing up in the
>     marketplace, though!
>
>     ==
>     John
>
>     On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 10:42 AM Davide Del Vento
>     <davide.del.vento at gmail.com <mailto:davide.del.vento at gmail.com>>
>     wrote:
>     >
>     > I've just learned about https://kfocus.org/ which is really
>     interesting if you want/need a high end Linux laptop.
>     > Perhaps most of you already knew it, but since I didn't and
>     hadn't seen it here, I'm rectifying the latter.
>     >
>     > Happy Monday!
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Elyse Grasso

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