If it wasn't for the 16:9 screen I'd buy it in an instant. Specs are sufficient for me, the battery life sounds enticing and the screen is matte. I'm just curious if I'm the only one that has such a strong preference for a less wide screen ratio.
No, I would _love_ to go back to 4:3. Maybe not for a laptop, but I desperately miss height. Except for very high end displays, we've spent a decade stuck at 1080 or fewer vertical pixels. Meanwhile way back in the early 2000s we had more vertical pixels (1600x1200).
No, I would also love a laptop with 3:2 or 16:10 screen. And a Ryzen 4000 APU.
Actually System76 might offer self manufactured laptops with AMD Ryzen in the future [1]. I hope they will consider a better display then. Currently they are basically rebranding Chinese laptops (like Clevo).
Still waiting for full touch support for surface pro 4 in mainline Linux - other than that it's a pretty snazzy machine. The keyboard is great (if not quite IBM era thinkpad great.. But what is?). Would prefer a matte screen though.
The display is my concern as well. However, for me, it's that there's no option for better than 1920*1080. I'd like a high dpi option. Everything else looks great.
I was beyond excited to see they finally got rid of that infernal 9-key, but 1920x1080 resolution in 2020 is a deal breaker. Not even an option to upgrade to QHD or better.