After I experienced ARM chips in macbooks x86 laptops are no more for me.
Happy paying 3x more?
I don't think price is the main issue for most people in tech
Tuxedo Pulse Gen 3
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#13`var USB-C_charging = true;` in the screenshot isn't valid JavaScript.
The `else` badly wants to be in an expression-oriented language, too.
JavaScript would be a strange choice for "fake code for marketing website" even if it was correct code...
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#14> With the TUXEDO Control Center you are able to control the performance and the behavior of the fans by yourself.
I remember seeing this project years ago when I tried to reverse engineer my own laptop's fan control functions.
https://github.com/tuxedocomputers/tuxedo-control-center
I actually tried to make it work on my laptop back then. Didn't succeed unfortunately.
I'd really enjoy reading about how they figured out the power management and fan control stuff. I couldn't figure it out. Did they have to reverse engineer? As a manufacturer, do they have access to documentation? I emailed Clevo asking for documentation and they didn't send me anything helpful.
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#16This looks really good. If I had any reason to buy a laptop today, this design would be at the top of my list.
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#17After I experienced ARM chips in macbooks x86 laptops are no more for me.
Happy paying 3x more?
Not the person you're replying to, but I'm afraid so. MacBooks are just so far ahead of their "competition" that it's not funny.
The M2 MacBook Pros are about as close as you can get to a perfect laptop. Really, I wish it wasn't so. It would arguably be better for everyone (except Apple) if there was some serious competition at the top end of the market. But there just isn't.
I've still yet to see another laptop that has even passable handling of sleep states / other parts of power management. (A lot of this is an OS integration problem, so Apple is playing on easy mode here.)
I've still yet to see another laptop with an even passable trackpad. (Again, OS integration, plus a stupid amount of heuristics built into the hardware itself to interpret what you actually meant when you touched the trackpad in an awkward way.)
I've still yet to see a laptop with a keyboard as nice as the current generation MacBooks. (The first generation of M1 MacBook laptops was awful, but they fixed it. Also this point isn't really fair because I haven't really seriously looked.)
I've still yet to see a laptop with as slick of a chassis and display.
I've still yet to see another laptop that can chew through demanding workloads, remain snappy the whole time, and not simultaneously sounds like a jet engine and throttle itself to a near halt.
But really, just give me proper power management and a decent trackpad and I'll call it a serious competitor.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Happy paying 3x more?
Not the person you're replying to, but I'm afraid so. MacBooks are just so far ahead of their "competition" that it's not funny. The M2 MacBook Pros are about as close as you can get to a perfect laptop. Really, I wish it wasn't so. It would arguably be better for everyone (except Apple) if there was some serious competition at the top end of the market. But there just isn't. I've still yet to see another laptop that…
That combination of decent performance (even while unplugged), battery life, and silence is hard to come by in x86 laptops, even in ultraportables built with efficiency-focused laptop CPUs where one would expect at least battery life and fan noise to not be issues.
Apple’s silicon helps here but I wonder if part of the problem isn’t x86 laptop manufacturers trying too hard to juice perf numbers at the cost of all else, as well as penny pinching on heatsink and fan.
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#19Pretty decent specs if you're OK w/ 32GB of (fast) soldered memory and don't need an ANSI keyboard (there is an EN-US ISO option).
It's interesting to compare to the their Intel Infinity Book Pro Gen8 offering - that has a DDR5 SODIMMs, 99Wh battery, and is actually slightly lighter than the Pulse (also a brighter 400nit vs 300nit display), although you give up 1 M.2 SSD slot, it's 40% more expensive, and even with the much larger capacity runtime and performance is about the same or worse, since Intel.
Another good option for current-gen (7040) Ryzen ultra-portable Linux laptops is the Framework 13. A little pricier, 1 x M.2, but you get 2 x DDR5 SODIMMs, a 400nit+ display, and Framework has made good on their upgrade promises (this is their 4th drop-in replacement motherboard that runs in the same chassis and it seems like they're going to keep going). It has a very active Linux user community on their forums as well.