I just look for an Apple logo. The newer one that's not backlit.
Ask HN: What does one look for in a laptop these days?
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Re: Ask HN: What does one look for in a laptop these days?
#2321. S3 Standby/suspend support. If your laptop supports that, you can close the lid and it will power ~everything except the RAM down (sometimes a USB port still charges). In 'new' laptops, including almost everything Tiger lake and Intel, S3 is being phased out for Microsoft's "Modern Standby", known as S0ix (or sometimes InstantGo). This is much more like a mobile phone, where it stays on but attempts to use as litt…
> 1. S3 Standby/suspend support.
Intel diasabled S3 in Tiger Lake
Re: Ask HN: What does one look for in a laptop these days?
#233Earlier quoted context omitted.
Your own quote mentions you can't hibernate it. And we recently could close laptops, have them sleep/hibernate and not wake up until you open the screen again so sticking them in a backpack was fine. Not sure if the issue is Windows or the hardware but it's a recent thing.
Unless Windows is doing something weird, hibernate is no different that shutting it down.
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#234Re: Ask HN: What does one look for in a laptop these days?
#235The Framework laptop came out around the same time I spilled juice on my Lenovo and fried the keyboard. Now durability user repairability are my top priorities. Hopefully Framework sticks around and makes a Ryzen option soon.
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#236Earlier quoted context omitted.
Bought an X1 recently and the Linux support is amazing: all components work more or less out of the box, and with `fwupd`, you even get firmware updates. This is my first Linux notebook after ~4 years and I am really blown away by how easy it was to set up! Not sure what you mean by keyboard flex, but so far, typing is really good...I am mostly using this for text work (research papers, proposals, presentations), so…
Which X1 did you get?
Gen 9; did not get a model with additional SIM support, though.
Re: Ask HN: What does one look for in a laptop these days?
#237Silence.
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#238Earlier quoted context omitted.
> get critical Windows Updates So you mean Microsoft can force your laptop to restart and lose all your work even when it's "off"? Amazing.
No, not when it’s actually off. If you’ve shut down, then it won’t do this, but if you put it to sleep it can. That being said, I hate this, with my old laptop I could close the lid and pop it in the bag and it would lose maybe 5-10% battery per day, with new laptop it happily unsleeps itself in the bag which has zero ventilation. So for safety reasons I have to shut my laptop down before putting it in my bag, then h…
I’ve been using Macs for over five years now and before that I was all Linux. From reading this it looks like Windows has actually reverted to where Linux was over five years ago: having to fiddle with the machine to get sleep to work. That’s just sad.
Re: Ask HN: What does one look for in a laptop these days?
#239One word: repairability.
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#240Linux support.