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The fragility of Dell's consumer laptops is why I continue to buy Lenovo's which are less sleek but have better durability and run Linux just fine. In recent memory I've had an X1 Carbon and X1 Carbon Extreme Gen 1 and been very satisfied.
Lenovo parts availability is a huge plus over Dell as well. Second hand or repair parts are hard to find for them.
Intel Core I7 1165G7 “Tiger Lake” Linux Performance with Dell XPS 13 9310
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Re: Intel Core I7 1165G7 “Tiger Lake” Linux Performance with Dell XPS 13 9310
#52I moved to XPS 15 as my first non-Mac machine in over 10 years, and I must say I'm far from impressed by the build quality. These laptops are gorgeous new, but they are SO fragile. One of the screen hinges is broken, I've replaced numerous keys, the keyboard is now developing some debounce/key registration issue all over the right-hand side, the speakers are both blown (left first then the right), the trackpad sits 0…
Dell Latitudes are built more solidly.
Re: Intel Core I7 1165G7 “Tiger Lake” Linux Performance with Dell XPS 13 9310
#53I moved to XPS 15 as my first non-Mac machine in over 10 years, and I must say I'm far from impressed by the build quality. These laptops are gorgeous new, but they are SO fragile. One of the screen hinges is broken, I've replaced numerous keys, the keyboard is now developing some debounce/key registration issue all over the right-hand side, the speakers are both blown (left first then the right), the trackpad sits 0…
Re: Intel Core I7 1165G7 “Tiger Lake” Linux Performance with Dell XPS 13 9310
#54I really don't understand why such an in depth benchmark does not test thermal throttling. This would be much more interesting to me. I disable turbo boost and undervolt my CPU on every laptop because it really drives me nuts that when I'm compiling something suddenly I can't use my web browser because my CPU has clocked to 800 Mhz. I rather have a little longer compilation time and ensure my PC is still usable in th…
Re: Intel Core I7 1165G7 “Tiger Lake” Linux Performance with Dell XPS 13 9310
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HP Elitebook 845/855 AMD support 32GB RAM officially, but they have 2 SODIMM slots so theoretically should support 64GB. One thing to watch out with Linux on HP laptops with AMD currently are problems with standby mode. They lack S3 deep sleep power state - only provide S2Idle so called Modern Standby. Although there are ways to mod ACPI tables there is still some black screen issue when the return from suspend happe…
48G means single channel RAM, which slows down the GPU a lot.
Re: Intel Core I7 1165G7 “Tiger Lake” Linux Performance with Dell XPS 13 9310
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There's the Thinkpad T14s. I think the screen is worse and you miss out on an easily-accessible SD card reader, but I think Lenovo tends to be more reliable than Dell build quality-wise.
Thinkpad T14 Ryzen also has 400 and 500 nit build-to-order screen options.
Re: Intel Core I7 1165G7 “Tiger Lake” Linux Performance with Dell XPS 13 9310
#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
The fragility of Dell's consumer laptops is why I continue to buy Lenovo's which are less sleek but have better durability and run Linux just fine. In recent memory I've had an X1 Carbon and X1 Carbon Extreme Gen 1 and been very satisfied.
Lenovo parts availability is a huge plus over Dell as well. Second hand or repair parts are hard to find for them.
Re: Intel Core I7 1165G7 “Tiger Lake” Linux Performance with Dell XPS 13 9310
#58Re: Intel Core I7 1165G7 “Tiger Lake” Linux Performance with Dell XPS 13 9310
#59I really don't understand why such an in depth benchmark does not test thermal throttling. This would be much more interesting to me. I disable turbo boost and undervolt my CPU on every laptop because it really drives me nuts that when I'm compiling something suddenly I can't use my web browser because my CPU has clocked to 800 Mhz. I rather have a little longer compilation time and ensure my PC is still usable in th…
None of these parts have an 800MHz base clock. If you are encountering PROCHOT asserts with normal workloads you should get your money back and/or post on your blog until Intel forces whatever third-rate vendor made your laptop to refund you.
https://openbenchmarking.org/embed.php?i=2010162-FI-TIGERLAK...
Re: Intel Core I7 1165G7 “Tiger Lake” Linux Performance with Dell XPS 13 9310
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Lenovo parts availability is a huge plus over Dell as well. Second hand or repair parts are hard to find for them.
Is it still impossible to find non-garbage non-$200+ replacement batteries? I had to give up on my X61 because it was no longer a mobile device.