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I really don't care for repairability as I average maybe 2 years before getting a new laptop.
In terms of strain on natural resources, that's insane.
This is how people get their used laptops
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Can back this. Many years ago I purchased a Dell Latitude from eBay. After messing around with a 3D printer, there was a short of mains voltage onto the USB line, frying the laptop and tripping the house electrics. I contacted Dell asking for a schematic of the PCBs thinking that I had blown some components, but they informed me that the laptop was still under warranty thanks to the original business purchaser (by ju…
Dell customer service is whatever someone wants to pay for. I bought a new Dell laptop 20-ish years ago along with whatever the super-duper coverage was called at that time (Complete Care, maybe?). IIRC, it only excluded deliberate damage (and "hammer marks" was used as an example). But they had no trouble sending me parts. Power brick soaked in a flood? No big deal; a new one is on the way. Dropped a screwdriver on…
It's probably worth it for university though. Back in the day working as a Student Employee for the CSE helpdesk, we ordered overnight replacements for so many laptops and servers an it was super slick and automated, replacement parts showed up and we swapped them in. Very little downtime.
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Last I heard asahi ran pretty well on M1/M2. Is that not the case?
It runs well but battery life is quite a bit worse than on macos.
That’s not particularly surprising to be honest. A lot of what makes Apple tech what it is is the concert between their hardware and software. Not trying to put it too poetically here, but that’s what it’s always seemed like to me.
In general when I install Linux on an Apple device I just assume there isn’t the same level of performance. I remember installing mint on a 2016 intel MBpro and the limitations/cons didn’t surprise me at all because I just kind of expected it to perform at 70% of what I expected from macOS but with far more free freedom/control. It ran very smoothly but you definitely lose a lot of functionality.
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#125This article just pushed me over to retry Linux on my laptop, and I've been spending the last 2 hours on a Linux desktop. I would love to use it as my main driver (will try the next week), but it still feels like a thousand paper cuts and realize why I was stuck on macOS for the last 10 years. Ugh :(
It's definitely a different workflow using Linux. If you've been using mac for 10 years you'll have a set of apps that you've bought that might not exactly match.
I found kubuntu to match my expectations from a UI standpoint. The gnome desktop was too different and scattered by comparison.
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#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can back this. Many years ago I purchased a Dell Latitude from eBay. After messing around with a 3D printer, there was a short of mains voltage onto the USB line, frying the laptop and tripping the house electrics. I contacted Dell asking for a schematic of the PCBs thinking that I had blown some components, but they informed me that the laptop was still under warranty thanks to the original business purchaser (by ju…
Dell customer service is whatever someone wants to pay for. I bought a new Dell laptop 20-ish years ago along with whatever the super-duper coverage was called at that time (Complete Care, maybe?). IIRC, it only excluded deliberate damage (and "hammer marks" was used as an example). But they had no trouble sending me parts. Power brick soaked in a flood? No big deal; a new one is on the way. Dropped a screwdriver on…
Dell and HP still offer reasonable accidental next business day on site 3-4year warranties much more reasonable in my opinion than AppleCare
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#127Lenovo Z13 Gen 2 with 64GB RAM and AMD 7840u is what I daily drive. It's 13.3 Inch, premium build with glas and aluminum. It's my favorite laptop by a wide margin, and runs Linux perfectly. Unfortunately Lenovo stopped producing the Z13/Z16, no idea what I will do afterwards.
I run T14s Gen 3 AMD, it's a perfect laptop and it got an update this year.
Is that the ones with the Ryzen AI chips? How do you find them?
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#128Tossing Linux on used enterprise laptops is maybe the best bang for your buck machine you can get. They're often time a great value and within three years old. Used multiple Thinkpads and Dells over the years that were fantastic and gotten sub $400. Things I learned to look out for: - Locked BIOS - Look into the manufacturer's repairability reputation. I replaced the entire keyboard on my ThinkPad X1 Carbon and it wa…
Can back this. Many years ago I purchased a Dell Latitude from eBay. After messing around with a 3D printer, there was a short of mains voltage onto the USB line, frying the laptop and tripping the house electrics. I contacted Dell asking for a schematic of the PCBs thinking that I had blown some components, but they informed me that the laptop was still under warranty thanks to the original business purchaser (by ju…
It’s hit or miss with them. I bought a brand new Dell monitor from Amazon, through their Dell store, fulfilled by Dell. The HDMI input stopped working a couple months later, as verified with multiple known working devices connected to it with multiple known working cables. Then Dell’s support absolutely refused to honor their warranty because their database showed that someone else but me owned it. Remember, I bought it through the Dell store inside Amazon, and received straight from Dell via their own warehouse. Amazon’s support got righteously indignant on my behalf and refunded the purchase to me when Dell wouldn’t.
It felt very satisfying to tell the Dell rep who cold called me to sell my employer hardware why I’d make sure we’d never give them a dime.
And yet other people have wonderful luck with them, apparently! Go figure.
Re: Linux on the Fujitsu Lifebook U729
#129Tossing Linux on used enterprise laptops is maybe the best bang for your buck machine you can get. They're often time a great value and within three years old. Used multiple Thinkpads and Dells over the years that were fantastic and gotten sub $400. Things I learned to look out for: - Locked BIOS - Look into the manufacturer's repairability reputation. I replaced the entire keyboard on my ThinkPad X1 Carbon and it wa…
Can back this. Many years ago I purchased a Dell Latitude from eBay. After messing around with a 3D printer, there was a short of mains voltage onto the USB line, frying the laptop and tripping the house electrics. I contacted Dell asking for a schematic of the PCBs thinking that I had blown some components, but they informed me that the laptop was still under warranty thanks to the original business purchaser (by ju…
I had the motherboard fail on a Dell XPS while at a conference in Tasmania, staying in a student residency that was inaccessible by car for the last ~1km. Within 24 hours a man arrived, to my room, to change the motherboard.
Extremely impressive logistics. I guess they reuse the same network as for emergency server parts/repairs.
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#130TL;DR: When in doubt, update the BIOS before doing anything else.
This. I went to install Linux on a brand new $3k ThinkPad, to do this you had to disable dedicated Nvidia graphics during the install. Doing this on the the included bios bricked the machine and it spent two months getting the motherboard replaced at OfficeMax (lenovo had a partnership with them at the time). It took me another few weeks to get them to swap it for a new one because I didn't pay for a refurbished machine.