New Laptop for Blender from System76

Our new laptop arrived from System76 with Ubuntu installed.  Here are the specs:

• Model: Kudu professional
• Screen: 17.3" 1920x1080 matte
• CPU: Intel i7 2.5GHz - 4 cores
• Graphics: Intel 4600
• RAM: 16 GB
• HD: 2 x 1 TB 7200 rpm drives
• Keyboard: backlit and num-pad

We ran the BMW benchmark test and it rendered in only 1 minute and 43 seconds! That's 17-times faster then on our old Dell computer which took 29.5 minutes for the same render.

So far, the new laptop works really well for Blender. The big screen is nice and the num-pad is great because Blender uses it to switch views.