This laptop is a CPU monster!!!

[@jojobobbubble5688]

:Looks at video: :Looks at production quality (Its great BTW): :Looks at channel size: :Spits our coffee: Holy crap y'all! This is amazing!! A year old channel and only 626 subscribers and this is what y'all be producing!!?!?! I'm subscribing so I can say I was OG when y'all surpass LTT!!

[@PremierPrep]

System76 makes such great machines for creatives!

[@thenoplanchannel]

Indeed!

[@texaswolf5334]

I have the S76 Adder WS, and I love it. It doesn't have much of a battery life, but it has the power to do most of what you want. I use it for work, and I play Steam games on it. It is my daily driver. S76 has sold me. I will always buy S76 from now on.

[@thenoplanchannel]

Indeed! They are growing well in popularity as well and I hope they continue to sell more so they can make more! About time Linux got it's own "Dell" or "HP"

[@ash1kh]

8:15 what the heck... i am using pop os for almost 3 years now on desktop. and my desktop has not been upgraded since 2017, with 8 gb ram and 2nd gen intel core i7 its a potato pc now. I heavily customized and modified pop os looks and other stuff to my own likings and yet the boot time from power button down to login screen is 4 sec.... whats wrong with this modern laptop???

[@nuxttux]

Great review! This narrows down what this laptop is best suited for. I'm a bit surprised to hear the Resolve issues, yet intrigued by* the Kdenlive performance. Overall a good laptop it would seem.

[@thenoplanchannel]

Yes indeed! Kdenlive performed really well as mentioned. Resolve is just too darn picky about GPU's and its drivers

[@mobilemiall]

I have had a pre-Pangolin (pang13) for eight months. It is my third System76 machine, the second is a nearly four year old Gazelle that I now use as my desktop machine. Before that I had a gen 1 Lemur. As for the Pangolin, battery life and general usability is outstanding, one of the few laptops you can still find with the wide selection of ports (including a LAN port). It has enough guts to run Win10 in a VM for my uses...but so did my gen1 Lemur. I still prefer to use my Gazelle for any real CPU/GPU intensive work, but it's battery life runs out in less than two hours if you're working it hard (almost five hours just web surfing in battery mode). Back to the Pangolin, I think the Gazelle has a better keyboard, and it absolutely has a better trackpad. I have to double tap in the Pangolin's upper left quadrant or it doesn't register.

[@wrathofsocrus]

I guess that comes with the version based off the LTS with Linux kernel 5.16? The next Ubuntu based LTS has kernel 6.8 and has worked quite well for me using a Ryzen 5600G. I've been running Lubuntu 24.04 since they started the daily builds in November and both gaming and OBS have been problem free. The few cosmetic problems I had were all resolved and runs great for me. Hopefully the next version of Pop!_OS will get things running better.

[@thenoplanchannel]

We're excited for the Cosmic desktop as well! It's shaping up to be really nice. I do know Pop!_OS is a little behind on the Kernel versions, but if that's what's needed to make this run smoother, they should have a newer kernel on shipment.

[@mmstick]

The kernel in Pop 22.04 is Linux 6.6, and 6.8 is currently going through testing to release soon. We skipped 6.7 due to regressions. Any required kernel patches would already be merged into our 6.6 kernel before a product is shipped.

[@bsdslacker]

I got a 2016 gazelle and its still working

[@MatthewLatimer]

How was the fan noise?

[@thenoplanchannel]

Very minimal. Only ramped up under very heavy loads!

[@WeiChei]

Something is up with your mic lol

[@thenoplanchannel]

Sadly yes lol! We had a malfunction on set we did not catch and had to fix it in post... yes, that is an improvement from what we had lol

[@yaroslav7328]

Thanks for the great and honest review! It would be interesting if you installed a distro with the latest kernel, such as Fedora, on Arch.

[@thenoplanchannel]

Good thoughts for sure! I believe installing other distros will be standard for us going forward, because I was curious about that myself. Fedora KDE especially😎

[@warthunder1969]

@@thenoplanchannel That is the nice thing about this kind of machine - since its built for linux just about any distribution should work / play nicely.

[@bnorrish]

Why am I watching this video on my Pangolin?

[@magnanova]

When System76 make a laptop with more than 1080p and more than 60hz and more than 300nits I will buy one. Until then I will not. The Framework 16 has a 1600p 165Hz 500nits panel with 100% DCP-P3 and VRR/Freesync. I'm happy to pay extra for a good panel - it's what I'm going to be looking at for some years...

[@thenoplanchannel]

I know System76 has been teasing an in-house built laptop for a while. Maybe we'll see specs like that when they do!

[@Dygear]

So. This video has been out for a month and has 3.3k views. I think a lot of people bounced from the video because of the audio clipping issue. I'm sorry, but you can't expect to retain viewers when the audio is this bad. While the audio might make up a tiny fraction of the file size for a video is is actually half of the video's content. Bad audio is the number one thing that will kill an otherwise good video. You would have been better off dubbing the video at this point.

[@joshuawalls8697]

The Darter Pro can be spec'd with 96gb of RAM. If it had the hardware disable switch, I would buy one today. I am surprised that isn't an option on all of them.

[@thenoplanchannel]

That is pretty nuts! I'm sure they would offer it on all if they could. There must be a hardware limitation or something.

[@sajankumarvijayan811]

Hey, thanks for the review. I wonder if I could plugin external Nvidia GPU on this laptop.. does anyone tried?

[@thenoplanchannel]

We have not tried this, but I would love to see someone try. Given that it doesn't have thunderbolt on it, this shouldn't be possible

[@kevinnguyen163]

A FullHD resolution on a 16-inch monitor in 2024 is just a big NO for me. Btw I would love to see a System76 machine versus a HP Elitebook with Linux installed. Here in my country, I can get a HP Elitebook for ~900USD with 7840HS/32GB/1TB/2.5K

[@thenoplanchannel]

We’ll see if we can get a comparison in the works!

[@UltraPatate]

exactly, what's the point having a beast computer if it come with a shitty screen that was "normal" 10 or 15 years ago

[@labeled9091]

your audio is peaking a bit.

[@beneficialhistory]

I really like linux laptops . But all linux laptops are very expensive

[@thenoplanchannel]

Funny enough, you're not wrong. Buying used of course may be a good option, OR, if you are looking for a budget option, check out the Pine64 Pine Book Pro!

[@roberttranceedm]

The audio of this video caused me ear cancer.

[@thenoplanchannel]

It did us as well. We have since fired our audio technician and banished him to walk forever amongst an Apple store until the end of time!

[@roberttranceedm]

@@thenoplanchannel Bit harsh, but okay...

[@jbloodwo]

@@thenoplanchannelbut have those responsible or the sacking been sacked as well?

[@warthunder1969]

@@thenoplanchannel lol

[@lokthar6314]

is itr comparable with m1 max?

[@thenoplanchannel]

We're not sure!

[@lokthar6314]

@@thenoplanchannel famn

[@GdncHfjbdkf]

Hey VOICE IS A LITTLE TINI ON THE 360p 480p 720p in general. Lower the threshhold on the mic and add more eq 4hz voice dept level 1hz then intensity! Treble levelibg.

[@thenoplanchannel]

Thank you for the comment. Yes, there was an error on the audio that the camera op did not discover and we didn't know until we got to editing. Sorry for the inconvenience and you can see our other videos with much better audio😁

[@CyrusOfNaias]

Kinda frustrated S76 doesn't have a performance-centered AMD laptop

[@thenoplanchannel]

That could be cool! Specifically for gaming. A lot of creative work on Linux definitely centers around NVIDIA being better or easier

[@RobF2593]

Hey, this AMD graphics is considered one of, if not the best integrated graphics on laptops. Is this GPU worthless in general or only for some specific software? Please answer? According to this video kzbin.info/www/bejne/eYiUdH-ZiZ1ml9Ufeature=shared Linux comes with standard open source AMD drivers, but for some rare cases (ie DaVinci Resolve), you may need to install additional proprietary drivers.

[@thenoplanchannel]

It seems to only have issues with specific software. There is likely a way to get it to run via the command line, but we are not the best gurus in regards to that.

[@itsmilan4069]

16:58 better buy a good windows laptop with great build quality and install whatever dostro you want it'll still be way cheaper than that shit

[@oliwali-u5d]

dude... my asus is NOTHING compared to this (btw its like 300$)

[@thenoplanchannel]

Haha! Hey, always a good time to upgrade!

[@GdncHfjbdkf]

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