| Developers: | System76 |
| Date of the premiere of the system: | 2022/01 |
| Technology: | Office equipment |
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2022: System76 Kudu Announcement
On February 2, 2022, the company System76 announced the release of a Kudu mobile workstation based on. Linux Laptop equipped with modern components, including, processor AMD a drive and from the video card Nvidia 3000 series RTX , and is suitable for both heavy programs and demanding ones. video games
According to the company, System76 Kudu does not have Windows, although if desired, the user can independently install even Windows 11 on it. By default, the laptop has a Pop _ OS system developed by System76 specialists and based on the Ubuntu distribution. Optionally, you can select Ubuntu itself in version 20.04 LTS.
System76 allows you to castomize Kudu before buying and choose most of its main components, with the exception of the screen, processor and video card. A wide range of accessories is available to the user, including a spare power supply.
In the basic configuration, System76 Kudu costs $1799 (138.8 thousand rubles at the Central Bank exchange rate on February 2, 2022). The price includes 8 GB of DDR4-3200 RAM with one bar and a 240 GB M.2 SSD with NVMe support.
The premiere of the laptop took place in January 2022. System76 equipped Kudu with an AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX processor on the Zen3 architecture, released in December 2021. This mobile 8-core solution with support for threading (16 threads, two threads per core), produced in a 7-nanometer topology. The CPU operates at a frequency of up to 4.6 GHz and has an integrated video subsystem on eight cores with a peak frequency of 2.1 GHz.
Integrated graphics in the case of System76 Kudu is a spare option due to the presence of a full-fledged discrete Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 card. It comes with 3840 CUDA cores and 6 GB of GDDR6 memory.
The image of the accelerator displays on the screen with a diagonal of 15.6 inches. This is an IPS panel with a matte surface and a resolution of 1920x1080 points (Full HD). The fact that with such an iron a laptop can be used in games is indicated by the screen-supported refresh rate of 144 Hz.
System76 allows Kudu to be equipped with RAM up to 64 GB DDR4-3200 in the form of two 32 GB bars. Options for 16 GB and 32 GB in total are also available, also due to the installation of two modules.
In the main slot M.2, the manufacturer can install a 500 GB, 1 TB, or 2 TB drive with different speed parameters. There is also a second bay in which there may also be an SSD with a capacity of 250 GB to 2 TB. As a result, the total volume of the disk subsystem in this Linux laptop can be 4 TB. The maximum read speed available is 3500 MB/s, and the write speed is 3300 MB/s.
The mentioned spare power supply unit will cost the buyer an additional $199 (15.4 thousand rubles). Like complete charging, it has a power of 230 watts, which makes it possible to charge a laptop quickly. The list of accessories includes a wireless keyboard with mechanical switches.
Kudu has one USB 3.2 Gen 1 port, USB 3.2 Gen 2, USB-C 3.2 Gen 2 and USB 2.0. There are also HDMI and mini DisplayPort 1.4 video outputs, plus one of the available USB-C can also connect the monitor.
A 1-megapixel webcam is installed above the laptop screen. Inside the chassis, modules Bluetooth 5 Wi-Fi and 802.11ax (Wi-Fi 6) are hidden, and 2.5 gigabit is placed on the end of the chassis to connect to a wired network. Ethernet Together with 49 battery Wh, the laptop weighs 2.2 kg. Its dimensions are 360x258x29 mm[1]
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