Meet the Caligra c100 Developer Terminal: a retro-styled, Ryzen 9-powered workstation with 96GB DDR5 and Workbench OS for distraction-free coding and design.
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Caligra has unveiled the c100 Developer Terminal, an unusual computer aimed at experts that promises to prioritize creating over consuming and to bring back a sense of focused work. The London-based company showed the device at an event in the San Francisco Bay Area, where visitors saw a compact, wedge-shaped machine in a matte metal chassis — clearly inspired by retro design yet built like a modern workstation. It comes across as a deliberate throwback with a very present-day build quality.
Inside, it runs on an AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS with eight cores and 16 threads, a 4.0 GHz base clock, and boost up to 5.2 GHz. The configuration lists 96 GB of DDR5 RAM and a 1 TB M.2 drive. The integrated keyboard uses tactile, low-profile mechanical switches, underscoring a focus on long sessions of writing and coding.
Caligra puts particular emphasis on its Workbench system — a Linux-based OS kept intentionally constrained so the user stays on task. The company says it has stripped away distractions and built an environment tuned for deep thinking, a counterpoint to modern operating systems crowded with pushy services, cloud elements, and other noise. In a market obsessed with constant prompts and widgets, the restraint feels almost radical.
Technically, Workbench relies on an rpm-based core and is designed as a convenient foundation for containers and packages from both open and commercial repositories. The company notes that root users can add Fedora packages and, via tools like distrobox, pull in software from other distributions — a setup that looks flexible for those who prefer to assemble their workspace exactly to taste.
The Caligra c100 is priced at 1,999 dollars. Preorders for the first batch are open with a 99-dollar deposit, and deliveries are planned for January 2026. The aim is clear: this is not a mass-market laptop but a niche instrument with premium design, an attempt to make the computer a true workstation again for people who write, design, and build — and who want the device to simply get out of the way and help them work.