Packaging and Accessories

The product box for the System76 Launch is on the larger side of average, employing thick cardboard all around. I appreciate the blue design, a prominent frontal product name with the company name below, it's otherwise minimalist, although I thought perhaps there was going to be something in the box outlined on the back. System76 uses a two-piece box with the lid lifting off to reveal the contents inside.


Open the box to see a matching color quick start guide going through initial setup, reminding you to take advantage of this keyboards configurability. There is a thick foam sheet above the keyboard, with more foam all around for further protection during transit. Removing the keyboard, and this foam layer itself, also reveals why the box was thicker than usual, owing to a whole second layer underneath that hosts the various accessories in separate compartments cut into another thick foam sheet. Pretty nice and functional unboxing experience here!


System76 provides here a magnetic "lift bar" that is effectively a single-piece keyboard foot which clips onto the back of the keyboard. This has a cutout on the inner side and rubber pads on the outside to add friction against the resting surface in use. I also appreciate the combo metal wire keycap puller and switch remover tool here which hints towards the use of hot-swappable switches on the Launch. Surprising also, and in a pleasant manner, is the provision of two separate cables going from USB Type-C on one end and either Type-C or full-size Type-A on the other. These are also superspeed rated USB cables too, not just your usual cheapo cables thrown in with pretty much every other keyboard on the market. Rounding off the unboxing experience is a set of replacement keycaps in three colors, these are all composed of thick PBT plastic (average wall thickness 1.4 mm) with dye-sublimed legends to make for opaque, colorful keycaps.