London-based Caligra recently showcased its c100 Developer Terminal, touted as a brand-new computer platform. At a San Francisco Bay Area event, interested parties were given a sneak peek of the retro-licious wedge form factor metal bead-blasted computer. “Designed from the ground up for experts,” the c100 targets those wanting a computer that is “made for making,” and is purposed to accelerate your work.
San Francisco - this Thursday @coffeejunk and I are hosting a little meetup for @caligracomputer. Come and check out the c100: https://t.co/r71dRo1sop pic.twitter.com/N8YK0VbRL0November 5, 2025
Caligra is quite bold in its marketing of the c100, as you will already have grasped. The company takes the following stance, “We think the world needs a brand of computing that stands behind creative technical work, dedicated to creating instead of consuming.” Thus, the Caligra c100 is aimed unwaveringly at “Scientists and artists. Engineers and designers. Hackers and painters.”
Whether its ambitious plans will succeed will rely on a number of factors. We’ve already highlighted the design, with various images. Other essentials that it will have to get on target are the hardware specs, software, and pricing.
Hardware: A modern Ryzen and plenty of RAM
Though it looks reminiscent of a wedge computer of old, the c100 is, of course, thoroughly modern inside. According to the pre-order specs, buyers of the so-called Developer Terminal will get:
Swipe to scroll horizontally Caligra c100 specs CPU AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS (8C/16T, 4GHz base, 5.2GHz boost) RAM 96GB DDR5 (slotted) Storage 1TB M.2 storage (slotted) Chassis Bead-blasted metal Keyboard Tactile low-profile mechanical switches
Those are respectable specs for a modern computer. The integrated design is also pleasingly premium. It looks nicely portable, too, an aspect of the c100 that isn’t made a lot of by the company.
Software, old school name but modern Linux based
Caligra has named its c100 OS ‘Workbench.’ That’s retro-famously the GUI that was rolled out with the Commodore Amiga computer line, but is not at all related to it. To cut a long story short, this new Workbench is Linux-based.
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