System76’s Lemur Pro: A powerful, ultralight OEM Linux laptop

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  Lemur Pro comes in a large box for such a small, sleek laptop. [credit: Jim Salter ]

System76's Lemur Pro is a 14.1-inch, lightweight powerhouse of an OEM Linux laptop, with an attractive black-finished magnesium-aluminum alloy chassis. If you're looking for a laptop that gets the occasional jealous look at coffee shops (or technical conferences), the Lemur Pro will not disappoint.

System76 Lemur Pro From $1,049 at System76 (Ars Technica may earn compensation for sales from links on this post through affiliate programs.) As configured at $1,563, the Lemur Pro is not a cheap laptop-but it doesn't look, feel, or perform like one, either. The Intel Comet Lake CPU wouldn't be our first choice if we designed a laptop from scratch, but as an entire system, it's hard to find much fault with the Lemur Pro-particularly when limiting the field to OEM Linux laptops alone.

As always, "the unboxing experience" isn't exactly at the forefront of our review criteria-but if it's important to you, System76 won't leave you hanging. The inside of the box is gaily printed with fun, golden-age sci-fi motifs that your kids might appreciate even if you don't, and the laptop is protected by folded heavy cardboard rather than foam bricks. It's lightweight, eco-friendly, doesn't leave a mess on the floor, and is highly reusable to boot-as long as you don't make the unnecessary mistake of cutting it with a knife, that is.

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