Most HP computers ship with Windows, but from time to time the company has dabbled in Linux by offering models with Ubuntu or Red Hat Enterprise Linux. HP’s next Linux laptop is a little different.

The upcoming HP Dev One is a 14 inch laptop with an AMD Ryzen processor that will ship with Pop!_OS pre-installed. Update: The HP Dev One is now available for purchase for $1099.

Pop!_OS is an Ubuntu-based Linux distribution with a custom user interface and feature set designed to make multitasking easy, among other things.

What’s particularly interesting here though is that while Pop!_OS is a free and open source operating system that can be downloaded and installed on many different PCs, it’s developed by Linux laptop company System76. Up until a few years ago, System76 shipped Ubuntu on all of its laptops, but now customers have a choice of Ubuntu or Pop!_OS.

As far as I’m aware, HP is the first company other than System76 to choose Pop!_OS as the default operating system for a laptop.

In case the name didn’t make it clear, HP is positioning the HP Dev One as a mobile computer aimed at developers. But it could be an appealing option for anyone lookin for a Linux laptop.

At $1099, it’s priced competitively with System76’s own computers. And the specs look pretty decent. It will have a full HD display, 16GB of DDR4-3200 memory, 1TB of PCIe NVMe M.2 storage, and an AMD Ryzen 7 Pro processor (although HP doesn’t say which generation the chip will be, so it’s unclear if we’re talking about a Ryzen 7 5000 or 6000 series processor.

While HP hasn’t revealed many other details yet, a look at the picture on the HP Dev One website indicates that the notebook will have stereo upward-facing speakers, a pointing stick in the center of the keyboard in addition to a touchpad, and a webcam and dual microphones above the display. The keyboard will also be designed for Linux, with a Super key rather than a Windows key.

System76 CEO Carl Richell says the HP Dev One is a result of a partnership between his company and HP that’s been “months in the making,” and HP has been trained to provide technical support for Pop!_OS issues. He also says that while HP has published a website for the HP Dev One, a “real announcement is coming later,” so we should have more information about specs and availability at some point down the road.

via Phoronix and @carlrichell

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9 replies on “HP Dev One laptop with Pop!_OS Linux coming soon for $1099”

  1. Sounds interesting. I’m not sure why they would use a distro that has such a strange and childish name though. I can never remember where the random punctuation goes.

  2. To expensive for me. I need good tablet.
    second question is how many blobs is in this laptop
    network, BT, meybe sound card

  3. A Linux laptop with NO WinTel Inside? I like it! The specs on this one are about $200 cheaper than a similar System76 Galago Pro with and Intel processor and similar specs. It’s also cheaper than Dell’s XPS 13 Ubuntu developers edition. I like that it comes with Pop_OS! rather than Ubuntu, because it gives me a choice of NOT being forced to use Ubuntu’s controversial Snap packages. I’m currently in the market for a new laptop and I’m definitely considering one of these.

  4. “it’s unclear if we’re talking about a Ryzen 7 5000 or 6000 series processor.”

    DDR4 3200 – so it will be a Cezanne (or Renoir) variant.

  5. I wish they had used Devuan instead, just so that the computer and it’s operating system could be pronounced the same.
    And also because I wish Linux could get away from systemd, just in case it starts getting user-hostile.

  6. Is the memory upgradable? 16GB doesn’t seem to cutting it for development works

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