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0 pointsdheera4y ago0 comments

I also do have the battery drain issue running 21.10.

I'm generally otherwise super happy with it though. The speakers don't bother me much, they're good enough for calls, and if I'm actually trying to listen to music I'll just use actual bluetooth speakers or headphones.

I'm most happy about the fact that they put an actually decent screen and key switches. Many other laptops that run Linux have shitty 1080p screens and shitty keyboards.

And the fact that I was able to shove in 2TB of SSD and 64GB of RAM all bought at market pricing, not at Lenovo or Apple pricing.

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aunty_helen4y ago

Some big points there, I can't even get the 64gb Macbook because they decided not to bring more than 32 into my country. So being able to get whatever I want from amazon at market rates is amazing (and probably the biggest feature of this laptop)

There is an issue with ram timings not being supported that affects the more flashy ram chips. I was lucky enough that it didn't affect the 32gb module I bought but it could've been a return (they need to update the supported ram timings in the bios but haven't)

I really like the keyboard, although I would prefer the layout was more macbooky (the function key kills me but I've swapped it with the ctrl) and the screen I'm pretty happy with. The 100% / 200% scaling thats supported in fedora though is awkward. 100 is a bit squinty 200 is waay to big.

I like the laptop but have struggled to use it. I'm starting to wonder if my touchpad is actually defective.

dheeraOP4y ago

Yeah personally I've settled with 100% with larger fonts. I probably spend 90% of my time in web browser + coding + terminal combined and they all handle arbitrary fractional scaling well from within the app.

And then maybe 5% of the time in graphics editing for which it doesn't matter.

For other locally run apps, scaling at 125% or 150% would be perfect but I think it's just a matter of time before Linux supports it properly without eating CPU.

freedomben4y ago

If you can use wayland on your distro, it can do that fractional scaling. I think I settled on like 140%

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freedomben4y ago

I love the 64 GB of RAM. With Chrome and Firefox both running with mountains of tabs, I still don't run out of memory! Chrome performance starts tanking for other reasons before I get close to hitting swap. Take that web developers!

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0 pointsdheera4y ago0 comments

I also do have the battery drain issue running 21.10.

I'm most happy about the fact that they put an actually decent screen and key switches. Many other laptops that run Linux have shitty 1080p screens and shitty keyboards.

And the fact that I was able to shove in 2TB of SSD and 64GB of RAM all bought at market pricing, not at Lenovo or Apple pricing.

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aunty_helen4y ago

I like the laptop but have struggled to use it. I'm starting to wonder if my touchpad is actually defective.

dheeraOP4y ago

And then maybe 5% of the time in graphics editing for which it doesn't matter.

For other locally run apps, scaling at 125% or 150% would be perfect but I think it's just a matter of time before Linux supports it properly without eating CPU.

freedomben4y ago

If you can use wayland on your distro, it can do that fractional scaling. I think I settled on like 140%

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freedomben4y ago

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