Could someone please come over, put a gun to my head and force me to pick a fucking laptop
-
Could someone please come over, put a gun to my head and force me to pick a fucking laptop
-
@jalefkowit I used to love my thinkpads with the trackpoint but I've been using Mac laptops for the past eh close to 15 years now and generally been very happy (I'm not a gamer) They run for years generally with minimal issues, have long batter life, great screens (and current ones decent keyboards) and work well with iPhone. But if you need a linux or windows machine that's less helpful - but a year or two old perhaps refurbished from Apple MacBook would likely be a decent option
-
@Rycaut Unfortunately Linux is a must-have. It would be a lot easier if it wasn't. Apple keeps its product line much more comprehensible than Dell or Lenovo or HP do theirs
-
@jalefkowit is running in a virtual machine via Parallels Desktop an option? (I have used older versions of Parallels but haven't had a need recently but it was a great app in the past) or looks like the Mint distribution of Linux has been run on at least older Macs successfully (haven't dug into whether they have a version of the M series of chips but I would guess they do by now)
-
@Rycaut Nah. I want to run Linux directly on the hardware. Thanks though.
-
@jalefkowit good luck - looks like Lenovo doesn't sell Linux preinstalled laptops anymore (all their build your own systems on their store as far as I can tell only offer Windows OS options and their "linux laptops" page shows only a handful of servers. Not sure when this happened or why - Google search is, of course, useless (linking to stories from 2006 or 2020)
-
@Rycaut They still offer Linux preinstalled on some ThinkPads, like the X1 Carbon. You have to go into the configurator for those models to see the option, though. They don't have a good central way to discover which models offer this and which don't, because their webstore is a disaster.
(That doesn't really matter to me though, I've been installing Linux on laptops after purchase for 20 years now. It'd be nice if I could get it preinstalled, but it's not necessary.)
-
Ah their website is really not good - tried to filter for linux as an OS and they don't offer that as a choice - looking at the X1 Carbon looks like if you select linux it is only available on a 16gb ram model. Good luck its indeed befuddling how bad they have made their website and shopping experience
-
@[email protected] just get a @[email protected] laptop and never look back.
Bonus points, you get to play Ship of Theseus with it too!
-
@julian @frameworkcomputer Ohhh, you must be new to my feed, because I already own a Framework and have griped here at length about the battery-killing firmware bug it shipped with that Framework was never able and/or willing to fix. The whole reason I’m buying a new laptop today is that I have never been able to be sure if my two-year-old Framework will actually turn on when I push the power button
-
@[email protected] I am new yes hehe.
Is it related to s2_idle vs deep? I'll admit I haven't had any major issues with the battery draining unexpectedly fast when suspended.
-
@julian Not the main battery, the RTC battery. Some first-generation Frameworks shipped with a firmware bug that consistently kills the RTC battery. This leads to the laptop becoming unbootable even if the main battery is charged to 100%.
The bug drains the RTC battery even if the laptop is totally powered down, so it’s not a sleep/power-management issue.
The last time I checked, Framework had given up on trying to fix this bug with new firmware and was telling affected customers to fix it themselves with a soldering iron (!). I had given up on Framework ever making me whole before then, though.