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Welcome to Thelio

The Thelio desktop line was born from the belief that humans are capable of anything. We believed that we could make an open hardware desktop that’s powerful, compact, quiet, beautiful, upgradable, backed by lifetime support, and manufactured in the United States—so we did. What will you make with it?

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Out-of-this-world handcrafted systems.

Crafted With Intention in Denver, Colorado

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US-sourced materials, US-based expertise

Thelio desktops are designed, engineered, and manufactured at our factory in Denver, CO using aluminum and wood sourced from US companies. For every Thelio purchased, we plant a tree through the National Forest Foundation.

A display of aluminum and wood sourced from US companies.
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Aluminum origins

Thelio begins as a solid sheet of aluminum. This is fed into a CNC laser-punch machine, where it’s cut, formed, and threaded.

Thelio begins as a solid sheet of aluminum. This is fed into a CNC laser-punch machine, where it’s cut, formed, and threaded.
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Parts take shape

Chassis parts are cut and bent to precise measurements, ensuring each machine ships with the same high-quality construction.

Thelio chassis parts being cut and bent with precise measurements.
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Infused with elegance

Shimmering black powder coats the aluminum with a premium cosmic aesthetic. Every design choice embodies the character of our company and community.

Black powder coats the aluminum Thelio chassis.
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Terrestrial wood veneer

Real walnut or birch wood is brushed with linseed oil and mounted to the chassis. Color options also include Neptune Blue, Martian Red, and Dark Matter stained birch.

Real walnut veneer being mounted to the Thelio chassis.
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Custom components

Assembly technicians combine parts and equip the latest, most powerful components as designed by the user.

Assembly technicians installing a component into a Thelio.
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Handled with care

Lastly, your system is delicately packaged for interstellar transit. Fully assembled Thelio desktops ship to US and Canada, with more locations to come!

A Thelio system is delicately packaged for transit.

ENGINEERED TO EXCEL

Our products are constantly evolving. Customer feedback and thorough testing help us craft a faster, quieter, and longer-lasting system. Each iteration addresses the needs of our users while streamlining processes. And because we manufacture in-house, any changes we make can be applied to our production process as soon as they’ve passed testing.

Two engineers testing a Thelio.
Thelio IO board.

OPTIMIZED BY THELIO IO

Thelio Io is a System76-designed chassis controller and hard drive backplane that regulates Thelio’s thermals for consistent performance output. It does this using motherboard data, fan speed, GPU data, and OS data to coordinate optimal airflow and acoustics.

HARDWARE THAT’S REALLY, TRULY YOURS

Making hardware that’s open source allows anyone to learn from the Thelio design, adapt it, improve it, and make derivative works inspired by what we've created. Thelio desktops and Thelio Io are all OSHWA-certified open source hardware licensed under GPL v3 and CC-BY-SA, with design files hosted on GitHub. We hope Thelio can be a spark for open source hardware just as GNU and Linux were the sparks that forever changed the way software was developed and shared nearly three decades ago.

System76 supports every user’s right to repair. In fact, the chassis is designed for it. When you buy a Thelio from us, it’s yours to customize, upgrade, tinker, and replace parts at will. We back this promise with lifetime support for your product and a 30-day money back guarantee.

The System76 robot mascot M3lvin and the Linux penguin mascot Tux together.

Explore Thelio

Compute Power

Thelio

Everyday User and Budding Beginner

Kickstart your dream career, or explore new worlds in Steam. No matter your goal, enjoy a casual machine that’s all fun, no fuss.

Thelio Mira

Professional Desktop

Ambitious professionals wait for no one, not even their computer. Impress your boss with efficiency and normalize a healthy work-life balance by hosting a rowdy game night with friends. Thelio Mira is multitasking at its finest.

Thelio Major

High-end Desktop, Intensive Computing

Finish long projects ahead of schedule. Whether you’re creating a web series from scratch or crunching large data sets, Thelio Major gives you more time to achieve perfection.

Thelio Mega

High-end Desktop, Intensive Computing

To master your craft, you need the right resources. Thelio Mega provides the power required to build an entire neural network or simulate the evolution of an organism—and help you do it first among your colleagues.

Thelio Massive

High-end Desktop, Intensive Computing

A desktop with server potential. Automate your research or power your back-end systems. Thelio Massive was built for prolonged, intensive use.

Thelio

AMD Ryzen or Intel CPUs

Up to 64GB of Memory

Radeon or GeForce GPUs

Up to 48TB of Storage

Space-Saving Design

Thelio Mira

AMD Ryzen or Intel CPUs

Up to 128GB of Memory

Up to 2 GPUs

Up to 56TB of Storage

The Professional Desktop

Thelio Major

Threadripper or Core-X CPUs

Up to 256GB of Memory

Up to 2 GPUs

Up to 88TB of Storage

Marathon Performance

Thelio Mega

Threadripper 3

Up to 256GB of ECC Memory

Up to 4 GPUs

Up to 88TB of Storage

Accelerated Compute Proficiency

Thelio Massive

Dual XEON CPUs

Up to 1536GB of ECC Memory

Up to 4 GPUs

Up to 72TB of Storage

Dependable, Continuous Computing