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Most of the specs look great, but like most made-for-Windows-8 laptops on the market there is a fixed limitation of 8GB of RAM. Its 2014. I want 32GB of RAM as an option, and 16 GB minimum. I am still looking for a great Linux development laptop but this is not it.
Nice laptop, but unusable website. It takes 3+ seconds to at least see something, and the scrolling effect makes everything seem so slow. There is an obvious memory leak somewhere, the graphs in devtools are INSANE for such a simple site, take a look http://imgur.com/j13Xk6h
Does nearly every laptop these days look like a Mac Book Pro? Once in a while I see things like the Yoga, but from the radius of the rounded corners, indents for opening the lid, shape/size of the keyboard keys, placement of inputs... They might as well have spray painted the MBP black and called it a night. Maybe they did...
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Even if you have to plug it in, a laptop is still far more portable than a desktop. If you're moving about and working in different areas, but still have access to power then a laptop could still be a better solution.
An iMac is portable, a Macbook is mobile. I'm hoping this is mobile, but knowing the PC laptop world my guess is My question is will this need to be tethered to a power outlet to use? Is the battery just so your machine doesn't shut off while moving from room to room? Personally MacBooks have a good battery but I'm _still_ debating buying an external battery to keep that running longer. I wonder if you could modify t…
You are going to have alot of fun the next time you get a new machine!
- Has delete key in usable position. Good.
- Ctrl is in the bottom left corner. Good.
- Right Meta key is Fn. Bad.
- No Home/End/PgUp/PgDown keys. No-go. Next!
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I'm also hoping this has good Linux support when it comes time to replace my X1 Carbon at the end of the year as based on the recently updated model I also don't hold out much hope for the future of the Thinkpad.
What has you feeling down on Thinkpads?
The old X1 Carbon apart from the display is nearly the perfect Linux Laptop. All they had to do was upgrade the display to HiDPI and it would have been perfect.
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They run (an old version of) the FreeBSD userland, but I would hesitate to say that the "work well with Linux". It's tolerable , but it's hardly a stellar experience. Things like suspend/hibernate, fan control, etc. are problematic, even though they're fine on most other pieces of hardware on the market. I always sigh a bit when I hear people recommending installing Linux on a Macbook, because they're not getting the…
I don't think he means by "works well with Linux" that macs actually run Linux even ok. Which is clearly not the case, a mac running linux is waaay shittier than say a Lenovo W540 running Linux. Running Linux on a Mac is not a good idea. Just getting it to boot is a 4hr plus long endeavor. Best to run Linux in a VM on your mac. Windows on Mac is a better idea than Linux. I think by "works well with Linux" in that it…
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I don't think he means by "works well with Linux" that macs actually run Linux even ok. Which is clearly not the case, a mac running linux is waaay shittier than say a Lenovo W540 running Linux. Running Linux on a Mac is not a good idea. Just getting it to boot is a 4hr plus long endeavor. Best to run Linux in a VM on your mac. Windows on Mac is a better idea than Linux. I think by "works well with Linux" in that it…
No, I was under the (mistaken) impression that Linux on Mac is fine. It's not. Sorry about that.
Witness the help pages organized by specific MBP version: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBookPro yes, it is that complex.
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16GB minimum is still a little silly. My desktop has 16GB, kind of on accident, and my machine literally has no idea what to do with so much RAM. Most of the time it spends 8-10GB on disk cache. There are absolutely use cases for more. I would love to have my home machine at my desk at work, for example, for EDA tools. But that's why you make 16GB (or even 32GB) an option .
You don't need it, until you do. Several developer tools I use regularly eat up that memory like nothing when you run in certain modes. Development shouldn't feel like working on an airplane tray table.
