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Also a thinkpad, macbook is way better. Two guitars, never got to learn them. iPads and surface, pads don't seem to be that useful to me.
I wanted to combine my MacBook, my notebook and my books to reduce my pack size, since I travel a lot.
It spent a full 24 hours doing software updates. Then I realised that nothing kills the joy of sketching like the file save dialog when you want to close the app. It was also a lousy laptop and a bad ebook reader. I returned it on day 2.
I got an iPad Mini instead. It's one of my favourite objects.
My X1 Carbon gen 7 used to do that too. Go into your EFI setup and change the sleep mode to be Linux-compatible (or at least not Windows-specific), regardless of the OS on the machine.
I would like to give credit where due, but while I'm fairly certain that I read this solution here, I can't recall exactly who pointed it to me.
All computer devices on Amazon. My hot take is this is where all the high failure rate electronics are sold that could never be sold in a brick and mortar computer store given the customers would return irate and the store would eventually go out of business whereas Amazon is too big to fail . A partial exception are some mini PC's. Many are pre-loaded with old malware but I throw away the 1TB NVME they come with and…
On your X13G1: My X1 Carbon gen 7 used to do that too. Go into your EFI setup and change the sleep mode to be Linux-compatible (or at least not Windows-specific), regardless of the OS on the machine. I would like to give credit where due, but while I'm fairly certain that I read this solution here, I can't recall exactly who pointed it to me.
Other things; it really did not play well with the 5.x LTS kernel of slackware 15, poor performance all around but switching to slackware current with its 6.x kernel solved that. KDE also used the GPU which decreased battery life but was still good, certainly better than the Windows that it came with which had abysmal battery life. I think the DEs also played with the CPU governor, at least with KDE, seem to recall that it reved up to full speed long before it needed to but don't quite remember.
Overall, love the X13, especially the 16:10 screen ratio, but I think the G1s had a 16:9?
Edit: With the DEs my X13 also goes into a half awake state when you plug it in when suspended. Generally not an issue but it will stay in that half suspended state until the lid is opened and then reclosed which means if you just unplug it and toss it into your bag, it is still in that half suspended state and will eat the battery. Another thing which I never investigated because I don't use DEs.
I'll tell you why; the Pixel watch manages to combine all the disadvantages of a fitness tracker and a smartphone. Now I have to log in to my watch, the display is too small to read anything on, and I can't increase the font size. The Android fitness app is a walled garden inside a walled garden, and I still can't transfer my metrics to Sheets.