System76 intros new Panther Lake-powered gaming laptop with glossy OLED

System76 has introduced a fresh new version of its Adder Pro laptop, powered by up=to-date Intel CPUs and graphics from Nvidia. The 15.3-inch laptop also boasts a 165 Hz OLED display with respectable QHD resolution.

To be more precise, the new Adder Pro laptop from System76 will be powered by Intel's Panther Lake lineup, specifically the Core Ultra 7 356H chip with a 16-core setup consisting of 4 performance, 8 efficiency, and 4 low-power cores. As the numbers suggest, the 356H is no slouch and packs enough grunt to edge past the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 "Strix Point" APU found in many high-end compact systems.

The system can be equipped with up to a whooping 96 GB of DDR5-5600 RAM. Customers will be able to choose between the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 and RTX 5070 Laptop GPUs to handle graphics, with the latter promising as much as a 15% uplift in performance with adequate cooling. Storage will be handled by dual M.2 slots (2280, 2242).

As mentioned earlier, a 15.3-inch display with a 2560 x 1600 OLED panel is on offer, boasting an admirable refresh rate of 165 Hz and a glossy finish, which is quite a rare sight when it comes to gaming laptops. Needless to say, the glossy coating should help with color intensity quite a bit - courtesy of the lack of a diffusion coating - but will definitely be quite cumbersome to use in brightly lit environments.

Moreover, the display's 16:10 aspect ratio should also make productivity enthusiasts who enjoy vertical real estate quite happy.

The I/O on offer is pretty decent, packing the following ports:

• Dual USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C (with DisplayPort 1.4)
• Dual USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A
• HDMI
• 1G Ethernet

According to the official statement by System76, the new version of the Adder Pro laptop should go on sale sometime in the middle of this month. Unfortunately, pricing details are under wraps as of this writing. Given the specs on offer, the Adder Pro is unlikely to be cheap, especially when considering the ongoing onslaught of storage and memory prices.