For heaven's sake. Is there a laptop which works OK with docking on Linux? I have an XPS 13 now, used Thinkpad t460p before. Both of them has roughly 1/3 chance I didn't see anything on the screen after docking/undocking.
Linux Developer Laptops: Dell's Precision 5500 series reigns supreme (2019)
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Re: Linux Developer Laptops: Dell's Precision 5500 series reigns supreme (2019)
#132I got one of the new 14" Macbook Pros recently and am extremely impressed by the build quality and no the whole no-more-touchbar. I don't feel as productive on it as I do my 3 year old Thinkpad X1 gen7 running Fedora, though. It's like a comfy sofa where as the Macbook is a desk chair.
And you can use multipass in the M1 to generate, for example, ARM64 docker images that you can run in a Graviton CPU. Win Win :)
Re: Linux Developer Laptops: Dell's Precision 5500 series reigns supreme (2019)
#133For heaven's sake. Is there a laptop which works OK with docking on Linux? I have an XPS 13 now, used Thinkpad t460p before. Both of them has roughly 1/3 chance I didn't see anything on the screen after docking/undocking.
I've got a 5520 with Ubuntu, and my advice is to use the HDMI port on the side of the laptop instead of running video through the dock.
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#134No. I have a 5550 which is I assume what the author is referring to. It’s garbage. Overheats constantly, the touchpad is dire, the screen has bad vignette around the edges, it’s noisy, the thing hard freezes when you plug it into a dock, the webcam only works 50% of the time you power it up and if you pick it up by the base it flexes so badly the touchpad clicks. The keyboard is also soggy as hell and the battery las…
If you're OK with MacOS, you don't need Linux laptop.
Linux laptop users (like me) have reasons to go into this constrained space :-(
That's said, I roughly agree with you. I have 5530. It's throttled quickly. The battery goes out in a few hours, and yeah, the fan noise.
I'm thinking about giving up Linux and switching to Windows/WSL. It's a bit too much to live with Linux over this mediocre laptop. I guess Dell laptops will work fine with Windows.
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#135No. I have a 5550 which is I assume what the author is referring to. It’s garbage. Overheats constantly, the touchpad is dire, the screen has bad vignette around the edges, it’s noisy, the thing hard freezes when you plug it into a dock, the webcam only works 50% of the time you power it up and if you pick it up by the base it flexes so badly the touchpad clicks. The keyboard is also soggy as hell and the battery las…
Hmmm, I have a 5540 currently and don't have the problems you had (and I actually replaced the factory Ubuntu with PopOS after a year or two). Although battery life is not great, but I am not sure that is as much a hardware issue as it is a software one. Although I am waiting on baited breath for AMD based hardware.
I have 5560 and I don't have such issues also.
I don't like the touchpad because it is too big and lacks separate physical buttons.
And I don't like that TB ports don't work with WD19TB docking station (from Dell!).
The wifi range is poor and it is heavy when comparing to ThinkPad.
But besides those issue. I like it.
Re: Linux Developer Laptops: Dell's Precision 5500 series reigns supreme (2019)
#136Pfft MacBook? This 12 year old ThinkPad is great, you gotta believe me!
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#137i find it very hard to suggest an intel/amd laptop nowadays now that M1 macbooks exist.. M1 is a league on its own, everything else is just tech junk at this point
Does it run Linux?
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#138I was assigned a Macbook Pro at work and I asked for a non-Mac laptop, reason being I'm a Linux developer and Macbook did not work well for me(keyboard,etc). I ended up with a XPS 15 that has 64GB DDR and 2TB PCIe NVMe SSD around $2750, comparing to 32GB+1TB of MacBook Pro it is about $800 less expensive. I did not realize Precision 55xx series is even better built than XPS15 otherwise I will probably go that route.…
> I did not realize Precision 55xx series is even better built than XPS15
Bought an XPS15 for an intern. I pulled the screen to open, and it remained stuck with the base, because they didn’t even tune the hinge. How can someone work with such a device, you can hear the fans and feel the heat through the keyboard: If XPS15 is in the top 3 money can buy after System76 and Precision 55xx, then Apple can double the prices and they would still have customers.
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When it's time for me to upgrade I'll go with one of the framework machines. [0] It's fully customizable, with room for future upgrades. I've been looking into a Dell machine for a while, but they just seem to have too many issues. For what it's worth, I'm currently using an m1 macbook, and the battery life is absolutely incredible. [0] https://frame.work/
I have an M1 mac for work and I am seriously impressed with the battery life. I prefer my asus laptop that I loaded ubuntu on for my daily driver (gaming, coding, fun), but man, I can leave my work machine unplugged all day while running the work VPN, firefox & chrome, remote desktop, vscode, slack and mattermost, and finish out the day with above 70% battery. I wasn't planning to like this laptop but I do.
I'm in the same boat. Unfortunately, I have run into odd compatibility issues when trying to compile and run a handful of Rust projects that are generally meant for x86 platforms. That issue and macOS prevents me from adopting the m1 as my daily driver.
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I was going to write exactly this. I don’t know about Linux support since I have to use Windows on it but oh boy it is crap. The fans are always on whatever you do, the left part of the keyboard is frequently burning hot. Touchpad is mostly really good … when it works, because as soon as I wash my hands, it stops detecting anything. The audio part, at least on Windows, is pure random. USB docks randomly works and onc…
I've been running Linux on a 5550 for about six months now, and the hardware is rock solid. Everything works fine. I've experienced no overheating, network is stable, all the USB bits work, it docks and undocks without issue, the web cam works, audio works, it sleeps, hibernates and wakes up fine. Fans aren't very loud and I've only ever heard them spin up when compiling (I would say the full speed fans on the 5550 a…
This has been my experience with this hardware too. Agree 100% about the USB-A port, but Ethernet would have been nice too!
I use it as a portable workstation, so it is always on a desk with a keyboard and mouse. Definitely not suitable for lap use, but that's no problem for me.
Way nicer than the XPS13, that's for sure!