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This is a general issue affecting lots of notebooks from all vendors.
Sure. But what I haven't seen on Windows or Linux is the deliberate high priority scheduling of a dummy process designed to throttle the CPU.
Just got a Thinkpad T460s. Practically the same dimensions and specs of a X1 Carbon but with replaceable memory and disk. Can easily be made to have 20GB of RAM and 1TB of SSD, and if someone makes a 32GB DIMM could potentially go up to 36GB of RAM although that's not advertised as supported. Everything works in Linux just fine and the 2560x1440 screen looks great.
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Can you elaborate? Why are the Ideapads terrible? Why get a Developer Edition?
The IdeaPads I had were not of low quality. They are plastic through and through, but high quality plastic. They feel reasonably solid and a reasonably priced. Obviously they are not carved from a solid block of magnesium alloy, like ThinkPads used to be.
And the ThinkPad units didn't have Superfish or the Win10-only-SSD BIOS lock.
No terminal is on par with iTerm. I was using Linux and *BSD for years, used many terminals, and of all iTerm is bread and butter (and with that font rendering and retina screen, nothing comes close). I would recommend to evaluate your needs, but be objective! If you can live with 16GB of RAM (I can, I do not do anything that would require me to use 32GB of RAM) then buy last year model. I have it, amazing machine. A…
I use iTerm daily but I don't think I get it. What makes iTerm so great?
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Important corrections: - Lenovo's ThinkPad line has decent laptops. Lenovo's more popular line, Ideapad, which are branded just "Lenovo", are terrible. - Dell XPS series are good, but if you're looking to run Linux on them, make sure to get the Developer Editions
Can you elaborate? Why are the Ideapads terrible? Why get a Developer Edition?
They're consumer models, and the ones most likely to be affected by Lenovo's malware shenanigans. Most "PC" OEMs tend to build their business lines better than their consumer lines, and Lenovo's no exception. The Thinkpad line also has a reputation of being friendlier to non-Windows operating systems in general (they're the most-recommended for OpenBSD, for example), while the Ideapad line very much does not.
"Why get a Developer Edition?"
Because they're designed with Linux compatibility in mind, from what I understand.
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My guess is there may be decent sales around thanksgiving as vendors look to clear last year's stock. I'm mostly hoping saner people prevail at apple too. Or you could learn to type on an ipad, which is clearly the future of computing!
Saner people did prevail at Apple. That's why for a laptop that typically lasts 5+ years they went with USB-C to replace the other dozen antiquated ports.
Resell value, build quality, battery life, weight are all factors that other manufacturers can't match. I really wish they'd released something better though.
https://system76.com/laptops/oryx
• 15.6" 1080p IPS LED-backlit Display
• NVIDIA GeForce 1070 8GB
• 3.5 GHz i7-6700HQ
• 32 GB DD4 at 2400MHz (upgradeable to 64 GB)
• OS Drive: 512 GB NVMe (PCI with 2600MB/s read and 1600 MB/s write)
• 2nd Drive: 2.5" 1 TB SSD
• 1080p HD Webcam
• Kensington® Lock port
• 1x Gigabit Ethernet
• 1× HDMI
• 2× Mini DisplayPort
• 2× USB 3.1 Type-C
• 3× USB 3.0 Type-A
• Stereo Speakers
• Stereo Mic
• Headphone Jack
• Mic Jack
• S/PDIF
• SD Card Reader
• Ubuntu 16.04.1
$2,870
Obviously the dream would be for it to look like a MacBook Pro, but I would give up the sleek case if I could run OS X reliably on that sucker.
No terminal is on par with iTerm. I was using Linux and *BSD for years, used many terminals, and of all iTerm is bread and butter (and with that font rendering and retina screen, nothing comes close). I would recommend to evaluate your needs, but be objective! If you can live with 16GB of RAM (I can, I do not do anything that would require me to use 32GB of RAM) then buy last year model. I have it, amazing machine. A…
I use iTerm daily but I don't think I get it. What makes iTerm so great?
Very fast, beautifully rendered text, tabs/profiles/split screen are well implemented etc.