On 04/12/2012 03:31 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > I know people who enjoyed their dealings with System76, also: > > http://www.system76.com/
I'm one of those people -- writing this on one of their laptops. I also own a netbook. The laptop has been good. No major complaints. It's heavy and drains batteries fast, which is to be expected since it's got a big screen and I didn't buy it with the upgraded battery. (The upgraded battery doesn't appear to be an option on their latest offering. I purchased about 2 years ago.) For me it fills the role of a desktop, but with the advantage of portability. Probably my biggest complaint is typing on the keyboard: the mouse pad is positioned so that my right thumb often brushes the pad while I'm typing, which moves the cursor to some random location in the text. Moving the pad about 0.75" left would solve this problem. Most of the time, though, I'm "docked" and using a separate keyboard/mouse/monitor so it isn't an issue. The netbook is just ok. It's small, light, and has good battery life. I'd hope it's fixed by now (purchased 3 years ago), but the big problem with this is that the wifi driver has never worked reliably. It was reported "fixed" at one point when system76 released new drivers, but I still frequently had trouble and now I just rely on a USB wifi (i.e. awkward big wart hanging off the side). A netbook where the wifi doesn't work is kind of pointless. _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
