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  • doclertoTechnology@beehaw.orgBest Linux laptop for 2023
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    1 year ago

    I bought mine in a moment of low supply from lenovo, so I couldn’t configure any laptop and I just had to buy what they had in stock, and this was the only one meeting my requirements. I like it much more than my previous XPS15, and it’s a great laptop, but I’d still go with AMD if I had the choice. Intel’s processors heat up a lot under heavy load, I don’t really need the nvidia graphics card (but the intel’s integrated one is not really good), and as I said things are better with linux, but still not great. Modern ryzens should solve all of those problems.


  • doclertoTechnology@beehaw.orgBest Linux laptop for 2023
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    1 year ago

    I have a gen4 with Nvidia 3050, and with the newer cards/drivers the support for power states is actually decent. On arch I don’t need any of the trickery you used to have to do to power off the card, if the card is not used for some time (less than a minute) it properly shut downs, and powertop reports something around 9w of power usage if you don’t fire up the CPU for compilation or such. When a program needs it, it powers back on. You still have some of the Linux/Nvidia headaches (with Wayland etc.) but it’s much better than it used to be