My Galago Ultrapro arrived a few days ago and, let me say, I've had zero problems with the keyboard. Apparently System76 replaced the keyboards a third time, and it works great: no problems with the machine so far.
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My Galago Ultrapro arrived a few days ago and, let me say, I've had zero problems with the keyboard. Apparently System76 replaced the keyboards a third time, and it works great: no problems with the machine so far.
I just got mine today. This touchpad BLOWS.
I'm coming from 7+ years of using an IBM / Lenovo Thinkpad. Now those things have the perfect keyboard and touchpad. I just can't get used to this touchpad. The pointer is very inaccurate, and jumps whenever i press the thing to click. Super annoying and innaccurate.
Also, Why doesn't it have 3 buttons like the Lenovo? **** the multitouch. Also, How do I configure the multitouch? I can't figure out how to do a middle click. Very useful feature to paste things, as well as auto-open things in a new browser tab. I tried a 3 finger touch, nothing. Also, a 2 finger touch doesn't do anything. I just now discovered that clicking the bottom right of the touchpad is like right clicking, and elsewhere is left clicking. But in the System Settings -> Touchpad, I don't see any options for configuring buttons. All I see is settings for configuring primary click (left or right), double click speed pointer speed, disable while typing, natural scrolling, tap to click, and enable two finger scroll.
Seriously, if there's one thing IBM/Lenovo got right, it was the design of their laptops. Those things were tanks, the keyboard had uber-perfect tactile feedback, and the 3 button touchpad was 100x better than using any multi touch pad. I only got a system 76 because I get a Windows 7 Lenovo laptop from work, and wanted a personal laptop with something different
It still blows :-( but I'm waiting for the replacement from System76 which according to all other reports I've read 100% fixes the problem. Chops to System76 for persevering with working to resolve this even if it took them a couple of tries. I just wish their communication could have been more transparent because as lot of people were quite upset about this and probably a bunch didn't buy the UltraPro because of it. I will be sure to update my negative reports when I have the new KBD installed.
Assuming it fixes the problem my only other issues would be the lack of support (so far) for track pad palm detection, fragility of the ethernet door, and the disappointing battery life. However I knew the latter was an issue going into it - it's just a feature of the kick-ass i7 quad core processor and keeping the battery size and hence system weight down to something reasonable.
While it sucks there isn't palm detection, disabling the trackpad while typing is a pretty solid solution. I've had my galago for about two weeks, now, and feel completely comfortable thanks to said fix. Damn shame the battery life is so poor, though :(
Now that I have the new keyboard, I love this machine. Track pad palm detection I am used to from other laptops. The ethernet door is a dumb design I think. I plugged it in once and couldn't get it back out and the door ended up breaking off. So now I just have a hole there, but I don't really care.
Open up a support ticket; we can send you another Ethernet door.
Can't believe this isn't enabled by default. Even more unbelievable is that this cannot be configured at all!!!
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