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Intel Skylake on a Linux laptop is basically unusable (terrible power management driver issues kill battery life and may even lead to premature failure). See h
by csense 11y ago
Intel Skylake on a Linux laptop is basically unusable (terrible power management driver issues kill battery life and may even lead to premature failure). See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11492070 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11492070
Just one of the many ways Intel seems to be dropping the ball lately.
- tobz 11y agoHell, Intel Haswell in Apple hardware (15" rMBP, mid-2015) rips through the battery, even on stock OS X. I've been at home, on AC power, starting around 9-10% battery, where it tells me 12+ hours until full charge. This laptop is 4 months old, and that scenario was only iTerm and Chrome open... :'(
- buzzrobot 11y agoWell, no, not precisely. The issue at hand affects only mobile Skylakes. Skylakes targeting desktop use are not affected. The caveat Intel published re: Skylakes is the same caveat it has published for the previous two generation of CPU's. What we seem to be lacking is actual evidence -- numbers -- that Linux users running on those units have seen more failures than users not running Linux.