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Looking to buy a Serval ws. Looking for info on it (alien.top)
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Hello everyone. I'm looking to buy a serval ws for Black Friday. I'm thinking the GeForce rtx 4060 and 32-64gb ram w 2Tb os memory.

My use case is mostly all cs and work related. I don't use my laptop for games. Maybe Netflix but that's about it. I'll be running some machine learning algos but anything super intensive I can put on a nvida board if necessary.

Curious about how this laptop operates,

Does it run hot at low loads and how does that change with more intense loads?

In terms of out the box compatibility issues did you face anything notable that was unresolvable?

Did you choose their pop_os? And if so how is it?

What are your general thought on the laptop itself? Construction I hear is solid and issues seem resolvable mostly.

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[–] hydronucleus@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I have had a Serval WS for about 4 years now. I love it. Early on, the fans were an issue as it got really loud. However, after updates, that situation calmed down. I also have a fan platform I leave it on, since I basically use the laptop as a 3rd screen. I have a dual monitor setup with a USB keyboard and wireless mouse.

It has the AMD Ryzen 9 3900 processor, with NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070, 64gb of RAM, 2 Tb of storage. I bought it because I had large full C++ compiles that would take forever. However, with the 24 cores, I could get it done in about 1 hour.

The only problem I have now is that I have a small issue with the bottom lines on the laptop display. However, I do not use that screen so much, so it is bothering me, but not really. I planned to create a post with a picture of it.

I have consistently used Pop-OS!

So far, so good.