System76 Lemur Pro Linux laptop with 14 hours of battery life

Post by trelane » Sat, Jul 09, 2022, 2:08 PM UTC

jeroenhd wrote: post #110

blumomo wrote: post #83

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I use a lemp10, the previous model with 11th gen i7. 15 hours of use are definitely possible in light use (low but sufficient screen brightness, disabling turbo boost), i.e. browsing, some video watching, text editing. Even running docker and compiling doesn’t hurt much. The battery life is so good that I maxed the charging level at 85% to increase the longevity of the battery. I can still work a full day off a singl…

With modern laptops you can definitely get at least 10+ hours of work out of them but that wildly depends on how well the power curves are configured. If you're in luck the ones that Linux uses are good for your use case and you'll get great performance out of your laptop out of the box, if you're out of luck you'll have the tweak all kinds of settings to get more than five hours of battery life out of a laptop. The…

Post by rajamaka » Sat, Jul 09, 2022, 2:11 PM UTC

divan wrote: post #97

unrealhoang wrote: post #6

Non-hiDPI display in 2022 is a non-starter. There’s simply not enough pixels to display text correctly with full hd.

Probably 'correctly' is not the right word here. I often code for 12+ hours straight and the only way to keep up with such a stress on eyes is to use bigger fonts and not focus too much on text (i.e. engage in a slightly defocused vision). Which means I never use small fonts, though I see a lot of people who code on 13-15 inch screens with super tiny fonts. Naturally, once you have to use large fonts you end up using…

Post by beanjuiceII » Sat, Jul 09, 2022, 2:13 PM UTC

dugmartin wrote: post #46

I'm wondering with the (permanent?) switch to work from home if laptop sales will go down. I've replaced both my personal and work laptops with System76 Meerkat mini PCs both running stock Unbuntu using Regolith for the desktop environment ( https://system76.com/desktops/meerkat ). They are stacked on top of each other on my desk and take up next to no space. I work from home (and have since 1999) and don't travel fo…

Post by victorvosk » Sat, Jul 09, 2022, 2:14 PM UTC

jmondi wrote: post #150

I had this laptop, but ultimately replaced it with a 14” M1 Max. Some thoughts: - The screen is so much worse, in every way, than a MacBook. A “low resolution” (more like, not high dpi) matte screen vs the M1 screen, there is no comparison. When I first got this machine, my eyes would have to adjust to the screen, and it felt so blurry compared to my works retina Touch Bar Mac - PopOS is great! It is definitely one o…

Post by fio_ini » Sat, Jul 09, 2022, 2:17 PM UTC

trelane wrote: post #154

ActorNightly wrote: post #134

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Macs are not comparable to a full Linux system. Also, when the battery dies, you can replace it easily. Any modern laptop is still going to have battery degradation. This is a much better investment for those that can't afford to replace laptops every 3-4 years.

> you can replace it easily. Especially with System76. They all have instruction manuals available: https://tech-docs.system76.com/models/lemp11/repairs.html