You can option it up to 40GB of ram, it comes with a banging CPU and it weighs less than a macbook air. System76 makes sure that PopOS and Ubuntu both work flawlessly with their hardware.
I bought one the day it was released to replace my Carbon X1 (gen 6) and it has been perfect. In particular for me, USB-C charging + monitor works flawlessly when I disconnect and reconnect, and the power button is on the side, which is great because I use my laptop as a workstation most of the time.
This Lemur Pro is an amazing deal. An i7/40G/1TB $1700 Linux laptop that weighs about as much as the now discontinued Macbook. That's just a dream travel machine.
I've been waffling around thinking about getting an old refurb Macbook (not Pro, plain Macbook) just for carrying around town and to client locations, but this is obviously way, way better for not much more money.
Think of all the Kube clusters and Docker containers you could be running on it. The mind boggles!
Really tempted by the System76 machines but my worry is the screen res. My MBP (2014) has 2880x1800 and I really don't want to go down to something less crisp than retina.
I plug in to a big monitor and full size keyboard for getting work done, but...
Regarding the monitor, I find the 1920×1080 resolution fine at 14 inches. Super high resolution monitors this small ended up being annoying to me.
Regarding the keyboard, I prefer the Carbon X1, which has deeper keys and more key travel. The Lemur has keys similar to the macbook keyboard, very low profile and very short travel.
As in, the post-2015 unusable MBP keyboards or the nice ones? That might be enough to push me towards the X1 instead of the Lemur although I'd love to get a System76 just to have something from an independent shop from whom I might expect decent service.
woah, thanks for pointing that out! I just configured one with Pop!OS, 24 GB ram, i7, 500 GB NVME and it's only $1500. That's a great price point in my mind. I'd also really like to support them for Pop!_OS which I really have enjoyed vs Ubuntu.
https://system76.com/laptops/lemur
You can option it up to 40GB of ram, it comes with a banging CPU and it weighs less than a macbook air. System76 makes sure that PopOS and Ubuntu both work flawlessly with their hardware.
I bought one the day it was released to replace my Carbon X1 (gen 6) and it has been perfect. In particular for me, USB-C charging + monitor works flawlessly when I disconnect and reconnect, and the power button is on the side, which is great because I use my laptop as a workstation most of the time.
Highly recommended if you want a linux machine.