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But that is a iGPU.
But the laptop does not have an Nvidia graphic card.
(But you are right, maybe I should have formulated it better. I meant all Laptops with dGPU they offer are with a Nvidia dGPU.)
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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…
I'll bite for some of your points. > I've still yet to see another laptop that has even passable handling of sleep states / other parts of power management. That's the advantage of Apple where they control both hardware and software. It's hard to replicate, so yeah, they have an edge here. > I've still yet to see another laptop with an even passable trackpad. Never understood this comment, if you use keyboards instea…
Or as shockingly as it seems other people might have preferences which are different to yours and which are not somehow inherent inferior to yours.
> else, even though the rest of the world has no problem not using Apple trackpads.
If you go few years back same could've been said about appalling battery life, poor screen and build quality and a dozen other things. I had not problem using computers back then because I didn't know it could be better so just had to deal with it. Going back to something objectively inferior is not that easy (e.g. I almost always used an external mouse until the first retina MBP, I haven't really felt the need to since then except occasionally for gaming).
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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…
AMD laptops seem to be pretty decent at that. You can get something on par or even ahead of MBPs in battery life and performance and just a bit louder fans (IMHO the Air is till unbeatable if it works for your use case though)
Strange, for a company, advertising to the Linux community, to offer only Laptops with Nvidia dGPUs, where you actually have to taint your kernel/userspace with proprietary software in order to use it.
That's pretty dogmatic. I don't see much issue with proprietary drivers (even if it's not ideal how Linux handles that) if they actually worked properly, which unfortunately they don't.. Not that this is relevant for this laptop.
From experience, open-source drivers that are integrated into the kernel and open-source source user space have much better quality, better out-of-box experience, and push the whole ecosystem forward.
Compared to closed-source drivers, which often need to catch up to modern software, and are difficult to debug, they need additional steps to integrate and often have to build their own stuff instead of improving existing solutions that help everyone.
You will not get helpful support for errors in your proprietary driver from the manifacturer in most cases, while you get support and fixes from the open source community. It is much easier to isolate the issues if you can access the code.
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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.)
They are obviously doing a great job at what they set out to do but besides reparability and customization I don't think they are really ahead in anything compared to some premium Windows laptops.
Strange, for a company, advertising to the Linux community, to offer only Laptops with Nvidia dGPUs, where you actually have to taint your kernel/userspace with proprietary software in order to use it.
There are basically no laptops with AMD GPUs. Why? I don't know. I think in the last months I've only seen one and I don't remember it as a laptop someone would buy.
Laptops with Nvidia dGPUs are available from many/most other manufacturers, as you said, so there is no real reason to buy them from them. Especially if they offer sub-par Linux experience.
Strange, for a company, advertising to the Linux community, to offer only Laptops with Nvidia dGPUs, where you actually have to taint your kernel/userspace with proprietary software in order to use it.
There are basically no laptops with AMD GPUs. Why? I don't know. I think in the last months I've only seen one and I don't remember it as a laptop someone would buy.
I don’t know if they make them anymore but I highly recommend it.
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It is not possible to "just map": Enter key has completely different shape and size and pushes backslash/pipe key to different row. I'm used to ANSI with single row Enter and I don't seem to be able to switch to ISO (in the past I was forced to order and replace keyboard in my laptop because of that)
See my other reply above, we are much more adaptive than that.
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See my other reply above, we are much more adaptive than that.
Not all of us, "we" are not. If it works for you great, but "we" agree to disagree here.
Come on, button shape and placement (which is not that different, there is no round Caps Lock on Backspace) completely breaking the ability to work on the computer is the most retarded First World Problem.
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Not all of us, "we" are not. If it works for you great, but "we" agree to disagree here.
If "you" are so different species, I'm looking with horror to the day when you need to replace your car. Come on, button shape and placement (which is not that different , there is no round Caps Lock on Backspace) completely breaking the ability to work on the computer is the most retarded First World Problem.
Which car of yours did ever swap the positions and shapes of the 3 pedals or the steering wheel?
Every (manual) car I ever drove had left pedal always clutch, middle one brake, and right one was the loud pedal and steering wheel was always in front of me and somewhat round shaped.
So what's there to adapt to when changing cars? At least use some good analogies if you want to play this game.
>completely breaking the ability to work on the computer is the most retarded First World Problem
Where did I say it's completely breaking the ability to work on the computer?
It's not, but it's annoying enough to affect my productivity, kind of like a rock in my shoe, and enough for me to prefer to stick to my ISO layout wherever I can.
But you do you, and let me do me. Peace out.