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I have last year’s X1 Carbon and have had no issues with WiFi (using Debian unstable). Certainly no connection drops. Maybe it’s a bad combination of AP and WiF

I have last year’s X1 Carbon and have had no issues with WiFi (using Debian unstable). Certainly no connection drops. Maybe it’s a bad combination of AP and WiFi module?

igravious 9y ago
Question. Is it possible to buy a Lenovo and not fork out for a copy of Windows if you're immediately going to install your preferred distro of Linux onto it?
- pimeys 9y ago
  If you're a student in Germany, yes. other countries might have similar deals.
  - lorenzhs 9y ago
    Yeah, I bought mine without Windows. It’s a special SKU for edu users. Great discount vs regular price and no Windows included :)
- deepbreath 9y ago
  In UK, they all ship with Windows it looks like. The only laptops I found that don't shove the cost of a license down your throat are the build-your-own ones, like pcspecialist.co.uk / novatech.co.uk / scan.co.uk / ebuyer.com etc. But you're not gonna get thin portable laptops by building your own. It's perplexing how we've let it come to a state where you can't buy a laptop device without Microsoft taking a cut for the license. And I'm still not over the way we let them have their OS logo on all keyboards, either.
  - igravious 9y ago
    What do you think of System76?
    - deepbreath 9y ago
      Haven't heard of it before, but they look decent. I think the price difference with brand laptops becomes less impressive if you go for the higher specs and also want it shipped internationally (20% UK VAT). The base weight for their portable 14.1" one is 1.6kg, but switching from i3 to i7, adding more RAM and choosing a bigger SSD would probably bring it closer to 2kg (compared to ~1.2kg on the x1). I think the x1 does things like soldering the RAM to the motherboard, which makes upgrading hard, but also makes it really thin (1.5cm compared to 2.2cm for the System76 one). Since the number of possible configurations on a build your own is quite high, I imagine it's more likely that you'll run into issues on getting everything to work on Linux.
johnbellone 9y ago
+1, I have last year X1 Carbon as well, no problems with WiFi. But I am running Windows 10.

I have last year’s X1 Carbon and have had no issues with WiFi (using Debian unstable). Certainly no connection drops. Maybe it’s a bad combination of AP and WiFi module?

igravious 9y ago

Question. Is it possible to buy a Lenovo and not fork out for a copy of Windows if you're immediately going to install your preferred distro of Linux onto it?

pimeys 9y ago
If you're a student in Germany, yes. other countries might have similar deals.
- lorenzhs 9y ago
  Yeah, I bought mine without Windows. It’s a special SKU for edu users. Great discount vs regular price and no Windows included :)
deepbreath 9y ago
In UK, they all ship with Windows it looks like. The only laptops I found that don't shove the cost of a license down your throat are the build-your-own ones, like pcspecialist.co.uk / novatech.co.uk / scan.co.uk / ebuyer.com etc. But you're not gonna get thin portable laptops by building your own. It's perplexing how we've let it come to a state where you can't buy a laptop device without Microsoft taking a cut for the license. And I'm still not over the way we let them have their OS logo on all keyboards, either.
- igravious 9y ago
  What do you think of System76?
  - deepbreath 9y ago
    Haven't heard of it before, but they look decent. I think the price difference with brand laptops becomes less impressive if you go for the higher specs and also want it shipped internationally (20% UK VAT). The base weight for their portable 14.1" one is 1.6kg, but switching from i3 to i7, adding more RAM and choosing a bigger SSD would probably bring it closer to 2kg (compared to ~1.2kg on the x1). I think the x1 does things like soldering the RAM to the motherboard, which makes upgrading hard, but also makes it really thin (1.5cm compared to 2.2cm for the System76 one). Since the number of possible configurations on a build your own is quite high, I imagine it's more likely that you'll run into issues on getting everything to work on Linux.

johnbellone 9y ago

+1, I have last year X1 Carbon as well, no problems with WiFi. But I am running Windows 10.