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System76’s Oryx Pro Is the First Linux Laptop to Ship with the COSMIC Desktop
Featuring a stunning 16-inch 2K matte display with a 16:10 aspect ratio and 240Hz refresh rate, the new Oryx Pro laptop is powered by an AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 processor with 12 cores, 24 threads, and 5.1 GHz clock speed, up to 96GB DDR5 5600 MHz RAM, up to 8TB M.2 PCIe Gen4 storage, and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 graphics.
The best thing about the new Oryx Pro notebook is that it comes preinstalled with the beta version of the Ubuntu-based Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS distro, which features the COSMIC Beta desktop environment. Of course, you can choose to buy the Linux laptop with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat).
System76 Blog:
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Betting on Beta: Oryx Pro debuts with new Pop!_OS
The System76 Oryx Pro laptop is back! It’s faster, lighter, made with silver aluminum and a bigger, more immersive display. And, it’s now the first laptop with Pop!_OS and COSMIC preloaded.
System76 recently released a beta for the next evolution of Pop!_OS, which uses the snappy COSMIC desktop environment to empower users with easy customization. See it in action here.
Laptops like the Oryx Pro that are powered by AMD & NVIDIA require the Wayland display server, which the new Pop!_OS beta uses, for hybrid graphics. And it’s a first-class experience: No more manually switching graphics modes and rebooting. In COSMIC, hybrid graphics works by keeping the GPU off until the user opts for an app to use it on launch.
Linuxiac:
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System76 Unveils Oryx Pro Linux Laptop with COSMIC Desktop Beta
System76 has announced that the company’s new Oryx Pro will be the first Linux laptop to ship with both the Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS Beta and the COSMIC Desktop Beta preinstalled, marking the public’s first chance to experience System76’s long-awaited in-house desktop environment out of the box.
Built from a silver aluminum chassis, the refreshed Oryx Pro targets performance-focused users who want cutting-edge hardware and open-source flexibility in one package.
Inside, it’s powered by AMD’s Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 processor—the company’s fastest mobile CPU option yet—paired with NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 graphics, bringing serious GPU horsepower for both gaming and creative workloads.
FOSSForce:
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System76's Oryx Pro Laptop Is First with the Beta COSMIC Desktop and Pop! - FOSS Force
Anyway you look at it, releasing a new $2,599 laptop with a preinstalled operating system that’s still in beta is a bold move. Some might say it’s a gutsy move too, since installing beta software often means installing unknown gotchas.
The folks at System76, the company behind the laptop, don’t see it that way. Why? Because for starters, the problems that arise in beta releases almost always have to do with undiscovered hardware conflicts that don’t occur until the software is put out in the wild, where it’ll be installed on hardware — and hardware combinations — never encountered in the lab. Since the Oryx Pro — the laptop in question — is part of the lab experience for System76’s Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS Beta — the operating system in question — that bridge has already been crossed.
Valnet:
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System76's Newest Laptop Comes With COSMIC
System76's COSMIC desktop environment has been hugely popular lately. It's highly customizable in ways very few Linux distros are, and it's also extremely fast and tweakable. It's not fully stable yet, but that's not stopping System76 from shipping a computer with it.
System76 has just announced a revision to its flagship Oryx Pro laptop. It has a bunch of internal changes. At its core is the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 processor, which System76 notes is the fastest CPU it has put in one of its laptops to date. It has an NPU capable of delivering 50 TOPS (Trillions of Operations Per Second), though you probably won't be able to do much with it right now on Linux. It is paired with an NVIDIA RTX 5070 graphics card. The laptop is also equipped with a 16-inch 2K (1600p) display that features a 240Hz refresh rate. You can configure the machine with up to 96GB of DDR5 memory and up to 8TB of storage. As far as connectivity goes, we have a vast selection of ports, including USB-C, USB-A, HDMI, a microSD card slot, and a headset jack.
Perhaps the biggest improvement is the fact that this laptop runs the new Pop!_OS beta with the COSMIC desktop environment. It's still a beta, but many have used it as their daily driver because it's a lot better than the regular Pop!_OS desktop interface, so System76 is rushing a COSMIC-equipped PC out of the door even as it's not quite "finished" yet. I'm not sure if this means that COSMIC is nearing a stable state just yet, but it's still cool. And if you're still worried about that, System76 CEO and Founder Carl Richell said that "the COSMIC Beta is the smoothest release I’ve ever seen. And we’ve done tons of releases.” He went on to add that “I've polled the Support Team and tracked social networks I'm in, and this is eerily smooth.” So there's that.