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All developers at our company get one of these delivered as part of their onboarding. They're pretty amazing. My only gripe is I re-imaged the machine and getting all of the drivers working and configurable is kind of a pain in the ass (the byproduct being the fans are going 100% always)

I treat mine like a server, sitting in a rack. I ssh into it to create ad-hoc test/dev environments. It's really fast and reliable. Love it. Having 64 cores and 512GB RAM is a treat.



I worked for a company a few years ago that issued me a System76 laptop. It was ok. Weighed a lot and was made of cheap plastic, and it also had issues with the fan. However, for a Linux laptop with open source hardware and firmware I was ok with putting up with those niggles. Glad to see they are still rolling along.


I have no experience or interest in their laptops, personally. My laptop needs are very different from my compute needs.


Where do you work? Is it normal to be able to afford to bling out like this on new employees?


System Initiative ( https://www.systeminit.com/ )


Sounds like a nice place to work at.

> the fans are going 100% always

Can this not be configured via the bios? I imagine there should be a fan curve setting somewhere in there.


It's custom firmware and a daemon that controls it. I haven't spent the time to get it configured properly




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