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Half-OT: I'm using a MBP13"(2013) for years now and really like it, but it's not upgradable and it's getting cumbersome to do some more intesive things with it. Would you recommend buying a new MBP or getting a laptop?
I love Thinkpads and I love Linux. My current "daily driver" laptop is an old X220T from 2011, which is a tablet hybrid (including touchscreen and Wacom pen/digitizer). I don't use it because of nostalgia or a love for retro computers, I use it because it's still an excellent experience all these years later. No modern laptop in the current price range can beat it. I don't know if that's because the build quality was…
X220 here; they are great. Battery life, performance (for what I do) etc are lovely almost 11 years after production.
> Touchpad is not close to Mac I'm using l390 and the touchpad feels good for me. Never use mac, does mac's touchpad is considerably better? EDIT: formatting
Yes, Mac touchpads are light years ahead of any other trackpad. I believe this is because they control both, the hardware and the software side of it. For me this is the only reason holding me from moving too.
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The homebrew/jailbreak community have a custom toolchain called Theos ( https://theos.dev/ ) which enables you to cross-compile to iOS devices without a Mac. I don't know how legal it is, but it's really frustrating that we aren't seeing more efforts to develop tools like this since so many companies and individuals are scared of pissing off Apple.
I think you're going to struggle to publish to the App Store without a mac of some form. There's too much signing and stuff that requires apple devices for authentication. I solved this with a Mac Mini that lives at home on my desk and was only used for the occasional bit of testing, debug and publishing (I was building using Flutter).
https://github.com/myspaghetti/macos-virtualbox
Or you can lease them online:
GitHub has some kind of Mac hardware or virtualization for their Actions too so you could probably wire something up to build on GitHub:
I was thinking about getting a used ThinkPad for Emacs + Org plus terminal only. A companion for writing in Emacs/org and for doing dev work (Python, Lisp, Bash). This article made me revisit that plan. (Been using ThinkPads from 2006-2015 and loved the experience. Solid rock hardware and best keybord.) But I can‘t think of getting rid of my Mac as it is adding so much quality to my day to day life.
"Battery time is not like Macs. ~ 5 hours (after one year)" There are different battery choices of 72, 48 and 24 watt hours. I believe the 72 watt hour battery "bulges" a bit and makes the laptop not sit flat. Edit: You could also disable the MX150 GPU if you don't really use it.
for me:
- Sluggish UI
- Inadequate package manager
- Unintuitive ways to install stuff
- Slow and large updates
- Can't do Linux development
- Can't try server tools
- Slow boot-to-work time
- Hard to add memory and ram
- Limited interfaces
- Hacker unfriendly
- Can't have a minimal desktop
- High memory usage of base system
t470s currently but have been using linux and thinkpads since the mid/late 90s. Battery life isn't great agree. My solution currently is a USB-C portable battery which I get an additional full laptop charge. In the past x220 and t60(p) were favourite models. Other annoyance (still!) is sleep seems to work on certain kernels and not on others. Was on ubuntu forever but slowly may move back to debian as I don't like sn…
This mouse has seriously become my favorite ever. Outstanding battery life, very comfortable, it works on any surface I've tried, and it works great on both macOS and Linux.
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I find that I can tune the battery life on a ThinkPad to be pretty amazing, but it is hard to get my change to stick after a reboot or even a suspend/wake cycle. One of the things that seems to make a big impact is PCIe ASPM. But where do you change your config files so it's always on? At least on Ubuntu there are numerous config files that formerly controlled power management settings, are still referenced in Stack…
I have a bunch of scripts that run on every start and wakeup. Some of those scripts do things like configure my machine depending on where I am (for example, detect presence of my home WiFi).
T480 - Larger battery cell (I get >20hrs of use).
Then there's a bunch of configuration options: https://austingwalters.com/increasing-battery-life-on-an-arc...
On my new T14s after the latest updates and a much smaller battery, I can still easily get 8 hours at ~2.5lbs weight, 16 cores, 32Gb RAM.