System76 Adder WS Disassembly
Channel: chris wininger
Date: 2021-11-19

I'm going to take apart my System76 Adder Work Station to hunt down a strange noise I've been hearing.

I decided to document some of the gotchas I encountered along the way. System76 has nice instruction manuals for breaking these machines apart but there are a few details they miss.

Along the way I talk about some of the pros and cons of the system.

Here's a quick summary of my favorite and not so favorite things about this laptop.

## The Good

* The screen is amazing and has completely sold me on ultra high def
* It has a full keyboard with numpad that in addition to lighting up feels nice
* The track pad while not quite macbook pro good is better than most laptops
* It is a powerhouse easily running Blender, neural network training algorithms and AAA games

## The Bad

* Accessing most of the internals requires removing the keyboard and a lot of screws
* The rubber feet quickly came unglued from the bottom of the machine
* Some of the plastic around the vents feels cheap and is easy to break when taking apart the laptop
* The battery life, as one would expect from a machine this powerful, is not good
* The rear facing power cord (which sounded like a good idea to me) gets in the way. Perhaps not so much because of the placement but because the cord end in an L shape. It tends to want to rotate such that the cord points down which prevents you from setting the laptop down. I am constantly rotating it