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My last Lenovo Thinkpad was an utter disaster. Despite being a mid to mid-top of the line notebook for performance it was stuck with a critical flaw that frequently throttled the CPU down to .39 GHz. Apparently it was a well known bug with the thermal control software and the ultimate solution was just to replace it with another model from corporate IT. Edit: The throttling would happen despite the CPU temperature be…
"Macbooks seem to be the only viable option these days", because I had bad experiences with two non-Macbook computers.
To be fair; I don't think that the author came to that conclusion only from those 2 anecdotes. But still, that is the way the argument is presented. And it really looks absurd.
Definitely look very seriously at Framework. Bought one last year and it's easily been the best computer purchase I've ever made. Solved every problem I experienced with Dell and Lenovo. I run Manjaro Linux on it. https://frame.work
The Framework is a beta product, at best. If you know that and are up for the challenge, go for it, but if you want something you're not going to have to fiddle with every time you want to do anything on it, pick something else.
Stay with the "Mac way". It's far better than Windows. Take disk imaging, for example. As far as I'm aware you need special software to image a Windows system but with Mac OS X it's a feature. OS X is also BSD Unix so you have far superior cli.
Windows has a MUCH superior cli these days because of WSL.
Better to scrap it and run a proper Debian box inside a hyper-v VM I found.
Or do what I did and drop kick the steaming Dell turd out of a window and buy a mac.
I am not going to use a closed source black box OS from Apple, with the possibility of remote surveillance of my device whenever the company or governments want.
I think Framework and System76 are largely replacing the best options from the traditional PC manufacturers for Linux users (and maybe many Windows users as well?)
I dream of a device that's basically a laptop without a screen, keyboard, trackpad, etc. Just plug it into a usb-c hub it restores everything from where I left off last time. Then once I'm done put it in my pocket and go. Then if I do want a laptop I could buy a chassis with a battery, keyboard, trackpad, screen, etc, etc to dock my device above in to. Edit: Seriously considering taking the motherboard out of a steam…
> Then if I do want a laptop I could buy a chassis with a battery, keyboard, trackpad, screen, etc, etc to dock my device above in to.
https://nexdock.com/samsung-dex-laptop/
I've never used either (but I'd like to)
The really annoying thing is that they tried so hard to replicate the MacBook packaging experience. This failed miserably when it wouldn’t come out of the box because the vacuum forming was wrong.
Shows how much QA goes into a product if they can’t actually not fuck up the box.