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Re: Tuxedo Pulse Gen 3

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Post by jeffparsons »

jwells89 wrote: post #18
jeffparsons wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 els…

Ever opened up the average laptop? They look like someone threw the list of component dimensions at a bin packing algorithm, let it run for a couple of minutes, then added some extra plastic struts to fill the dead space.

It feels like nobody* else is even _trying_.

(*Except Framework. Those guys are awesome.)

Re: Tuxedo Pulse Gen 3

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Post by latentcall »

ArtemZ wrote: post #7

After I experienced ARM chips in macbooks x86 laptops are no more for me.

I wouldn’t be able to do it until Asahi Linux is totally done. Paying 1.5k for a laptop that doesn’t respect you is quite a big ask. They’d have to pay me to use Mac OS, as someone would have to pay me to use Windows.

I’m glad these options exist such as Tuxedo.

Re: Tuxedo Pulse Gen 3

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Post by beAbU »

cvccvroomvroom wrote: post #6

No ECC RAM: don't care. It also doesn't say not soldered on RAM and SSD which means it probably is.

What's it with HN's obsession with ECC RAM?

Also, doesn't DDR5 have built-in ECC?

Also, the website talks about M.2 for the SSD form factor. M.2 describes a physical connector standard. I would imagine that's enough to imply that it's not soldered SSDs.

Re: Tuxedo Pulse Gen 3

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Post by lopis »

latentcall wrote: post #23
ArtemZ wrote: post #7

After I experienced ARM chips in macbooks x86 laptops are no more for me.

I wouldn’t be able to do it until Asahi Linux is totally done. Paying 1.5k for a laptop that doesn’t respect you is quite a big ask. They’d have to pay me to use Mac OS, as someone would have to pay me to use Windows. I’m glad these options exist such as Tuxedo.

> They’d have to pay me to use Mac OS

And for many HN users, they do get paid to use Mac OS and offered a Macbook for work. I personally still use Linux for work but I have to admit it hinders my work in certain ways (e.g. no easy access to testing Safari and no way to test VoiceOver). But I couldn't trade my setup for whatever Apple decides is best for me. So I appreciate companies still pushing for more solid Linux-first laptops.

Re: Tuxedo Pulse Gen 3

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Post by Epa095 »

Not bad. But I wonder why they went for 7840HS, instead of the lower TDP 7840u.

Spec wise this one is quite close to lenovo t14s/p14s gen 4, which can also be configured with a similar screen (there is also the yoga slim 7 gen 8, but it has a glossy screen).

Re: Tuxedo Pulse Gen 3

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Post by dajonker »

lhl wrote: post #19

Pretty 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 t…

No ANSI keyboard might be a deal breaker for my muscle memory and external keyboards (mechanical and MX keys that I had to import from the US because Logitech only sells ISO in the EU)

Re: Tuxedo Pulse Gen 3

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Post by boudin »

cyclever wrote: post #28

I bet you can only run Ubuntu and derivatives on this. As a die-hard Arch user Tuxedo is a bad choice.

Why do you say that? You can run whatever distribution you want, i run arch on a tuxedo laptop with no issue. Tuxedo laptops are not perfect but i find them a good choice for running Linux, whatever distribution you prefer.
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