System76 shows teaser of first homemade Linux laptop – Computer – News

System76 CEO Carl Richell exhibits teasers of his first home made laptop computer on Twitter. The corporate will manufacture that laptop computer at its Denver manufacturing unit. System76 has been promoting Linux laptops for a while, however makes use of laptop computer designs from OEMs.

Richell reviews on Twitter that the primary home made System76 laptop computer is codenamed Virgo. The CEO exhibits the housing for an LCD panel, which is milled from a 6061 aluminum alloy. The panel contains the System76 emblem. It’s the first time that the corporate has shared pictures of a laptop computer prototype. Nonetheless, the CEO doesn’t say when precisely the laptop computer ought to be launched.

System76 already reported on the finish of 2019 that it’ll design and produce its personal laptops. At present, the corporate’s laptops are primarily based on designs from OEMs equivalent to Clevo and Sager, that are then loaded with Linux and, in lots of circumstances, open supply firmware. System76 already produces different {hardware} at its Denver, Colorado facility. For instance, the Launch keyboard and case of the System76 Thelio desktops are already made there.

Final yr spoke Tweakers with System76-principalengineer Jeremy Soller. He then stated that System76 was nonetheless designing its first home made laptops. At the moment, the corporate had not but made any prototypes, however was primarily nonetheless researching totally different supplies. In order that has now modified.

Soller additionally introduced to Tweakers final yr that the corporate needs to open a distribution heart in Europe, permitting customers to buy {hardware} from the corporate with out incurring further import charges. The corporate would ultimately additionally promote desktops and laptops there. It isn’t but identified precisely when that European distribution heart will open.

Bron: System76-ceo Carl Richell, by way of Twitter