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Just wondering, can we really feel the difference between 2k and 4k on a small screen?
Yes, other screens are ruined for you.
After seeing how crisp and clear the text is on my main screen, I was really annoyed with myself for not getting a 3K screen for my secondary monitor too :(
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The TDP of the M1 is between 15 and 20 Watts That's the TDP. For light daily tasks (casual web browsing, e-mail, etc.) the M1 primarily relies on the energy-efficient Icestorm cores. While typing this comment and having some applications in the background (like Slack), package power use hovers between 40 and 300mW (roughly 100mW on average). The energy efficiency of M1 MacBook is remarkable. My wife had an M1 before…
>I wouldn't believe her when she told me she still had 80% battery remaining. Really? I feel like that's just having any 2021 laptop. I have a 13" Linux laptop with the i7-1185g. I'm not going to pretend it matches the performance/watt of an M1, but a few hours of video calling makes a completely negligible difference to battery life for me. 20% for a few hours of video calls just feels baseline. I've never been in a…
I had a brief Linux/Windows excursion with a ThinkPad T14 Ryzen laptop. Three hours of video meetings was enough to drain most of the battery in Linux (worse power management, plus no hardware encoding/decoding in some video meeting apps). In Windows, it lasted a bit longer, but the battery would definitely be drained 50%, often more.
The ThinkPad was not a lemon. This seems like pretty normal drain if you look at people's experiences on the web.
1. 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…
> two fast external storage ports At least 4 USB ports (2-3 USB-B, 1-2 USB-C). At least one of them full USB-4 Thunderbolt unless the computer is very cheap. 100% USB-C with no USB-B is a serious annoyance. Lack of a head-set jack is an extreme annoyance I would only excuse if the computer is really great otherwise. Built-in Ethernet port is very nice to have but not necessary. Built-in SD card reader is also very ni…
Don't you mean USB-A instead of USB-B ? I don't think I've ever seen a laptop with USB-B ports.
I’m gonna add good webcam and sound to the mix. These are essential for remote work. If the rumours are true, the new M1X MacBook Pros being announced this Monday look perfect: - high performance + battery life - exceptional build quality - great screen, sound, and webcam - decent port selection
Webcam is rumored to be 1080p. At the price point of a Macbook Pro it should be a 4K webcam. We'll see, maybe the rumors are wrong. We know how long it takes Apple to upgrade their webcams so we might be stuck with 1080p until 2030.
It should have a better camera, that much I agree with.
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I tried for years to get along with Purism but I've had three laptops with poor QC come from them. Broken hinges, unreliable touchpads, bad chargers. Never again.
I'm quite happy with my Librem 15, no problems. AFAIK they fixed their hinge in the latest model. Which problems did you have with the chargers? Never heard about that on their forums.
You may just be lucky. The failure rates of Librems are well documented across their forums, subreddit and YouTube. I strongly urge anyone not to buy one, including the new 14, which has extensive reports of keyboard input failure, coil whine, terrible audio and generally poor fit and finish.
Otherwise I develop on a 64GB 16/32 core workstation.
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I was going to replace my thinkpad with a new thinkpad, but when apple released the M1 macbook air I had to change my mind. I paid the same that I would have paid for a T series, but got something that has the sleek thin and light build quality on par with an X1 with performance of a P series and battery life that hasn't existed on thinkpads ever since they dropped power bridge. Oh, and it is fanless. If my macbook a…
> If lenovo still made thinkpads like they used to: [..] and with top-notch keyboards, I might have opted for a thinkpad still. But they don't make those. All new thinkpads have so-so keyboards I've seen this a few times and am curious: I got a Thinkpad at the end of 2019, and the keyboard is waaay better than the various HP, Dell, and Asus laptops I've had in the past. Did I get lucky or were all of those just way w…
This article is a good summary of the keyboard situation: https://www.notebookcheck.net/X1-Carbon-Gen-9-Lenovo-has-to-...
2. Battery replaceable
3. Screen replaceable
4. No soldered on RAM
5. Full shutdown, always on is a bug not a feature
6. Durability
7. Ports a plenty
8. I should be able to drop it from any angle from my couch and it should not break