• MischievousTomato@lemdro.id
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    1 year ago

    I don’t know. I myself am planning to get a new laptop next year and I’m in a dilemma between an expensive macbook pro or an expensive thinkpad x1 yoga. Similarly priced.

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      1 year ago

      If you care about battery, well you need to consider macbook, they have better battery management, just I don’t know how it’s under linux. 2nd if it’s design, go twith macbook. If it’s not then always go with Thinkpad.

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        1 year ago

        I have a Z13 with AMD (not Intel) & after a year of heavy use exclusively on Linux, I still regularly get 5–11 hours battery and sleep/hibernate works fine. There’s not too many situations where I wouldn’t have an opportunity to charge in there. Previous Intel laptops (even Evo) could barely get 6 & I’d need to carry a power brick to a café if I needed to compile like anything.

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          1 year ago

          So AMD is better on battery nowdays? Seems I need to save up and try one with fedora.

          Thanks for sharing!

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          1 year ago

          I wish I could love AMD, but after being hit by the drm/amd#1455 bug, I can’t ever. I’m quite happy with intel and my battery life is the same as when I used windows, so all is fine.

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        1 year ago

        I care about both design and battery, but I’m willing to compromise on battery because I’ll still depend on x86 for games and some other stuff I believe. I like the design of the thinkpads too, black + red is a very kino combo.

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      1 year ago

      At this point it’s also a question of operating system, because Asahi Linux is not ready for general usage, so to get a good experience on an Apple Silicon Macbook you need to be running MacOS still. The performance and battery life will blow the X1 Yoga out of the water I believe, and the Mac build quality is superb, but until Asahi gets better, you’ll be a bit restricted.

      Good news is, the drivers from Asahi are also slowly making their way upstream I believe, so in the future, other distros can be run on Mac hardware too.

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        1 year ago

        I don’t plan on running Asahi ever. One of the big reasons I would want a mac is because I wanna try MacOS for myself. Also, I want a thinkpad with an intel meteor lake soc, which will be a radical upgrade. I’m quite hyped

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          1 year ago

          If you want to use MacOS, the new Macs are all superb. I have a Pro from work and an Air of my own and they’re amazing machines.