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Can I get some laptop recommendations with similar specs (and most importantly battery time) as the MBP from you? I've been looking around for a new one.

inson 6y ago
Dell XPS 15
zdragnar 6y ago
I had a dell xps 13, and was not at all impressed. It ran arch alright, at least. I had a surface book 2 which was actually really nice, but broke down within 2 years, and best buy couldnt get parts to repair it anymore and just refunded the money (laptops are one of tge few things I will always pay for an extended warranty). Currently, i use an hp spectre x360- a windows partition for gaming, and pop_os for everything else. I was very unimpressed trying to get a few different linux distros to run well on it, though i was trying some strange combinations. Pop_os just works. Literally no tweaking needed whatsoever. Lenovo's 6th gen carbon x1 got rave reviews, but there was a lot of mixed messaging about newer models and arch, so I never really bothered when i was last looking.
loxs 6y ago
Currently I run the cheapest ThinkPad T495 (AMD hardware) on Arch Linux (but maxed the RAM on my own). Everything works great, except it doesn't remember the screen brightness level after a reboot, which is not a big deal at all for me - I don't reboot very often.
- jamesponddotco 6y ago
  I have a Psomething (the one with Xeon) from work and a T480 for personal stuff, but as I have been getting rid of Intel in my life, the T480 will be the first to go. How is the T495 with kernel 5.8? How does the GPU handle day to day life, and video acceleration? And more importantly, does the T495 have soldered RAM? The awesome thing about the T480 is how I could upgrade a bunch of things, from Wi-Fi card, to RAM, to NVMe drive, and I would not like losing that. The new T14, unfortunately, will take forever to show up in Brazil, so the T495 seems to be the logical option.
  - loxs 6y ago
    As I said, everything works, except for remembering the screen brightness level. It has 8GB soldered and you can put additional 16GB on the second slot. For me this is good enough. Hardware video acceleration works out-of-the box with kernel 5.8. I am not sure if the nvme slot is soldered, but as far as I remember, it's not. It has an additional slot for a standard 2.5 inch drive which you can use to increase capacity.
- ywei3410 6y ago
  Here's a fix! https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-hardware/blob/master/lenovo/thinkpad/t495/default.nix https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-hardware/blob/master/lenovo/t....
  - loxs 6y ago
    I know about this, but it's not that big of a deal to me, and I prefer to stick to the out-of-the-box experience on Arch and wait for a fix to arrive.

inson 6y ago

Dell XPS 15

zdragnar 6y ago

I had a dell xps 13, and was not at all impressed. It ran arch alright, at least. I had a surface book 2 which was actually really nice, but broke down within 2 years, and best buy couldnt get parts to repair it anymore and just refunded the money (laptops are one of tge few things I will always pay for an extended warranty). Currently, i use an hp spectre x360- a windows partition for gaming, and pop_os for everything else. I was very unimpressed trying to get a few different linux distros to run well on it, though i was trying some strange combinations. Pop_os just works. Literally no tweaking needed whatsoever. Lenovo's 6th gen carbon x1 got rave reviews, but there was a lot of mixed messaging about newer models and arch, so I never really bothered when i was last looking.

loxs 6y ago

Currently I run the cheapest ThinkPad T495 (AMD hardware) on Arch Linux (but maxed the RAM on my own). Everything works great, except it doesn't remember the screen brightness level after a reboot, which is not a big deal at all for me - I don't reboot very often.

jamesponddotco 6y ago
I have a Psomething (the one with Xeon) from work and a T480 for personal stuff, but as I have been getting rid of Intel in my life, the T480 will be the first to go. How is the T495 with kernel 5.8? How does the GPU handle day to day life, and video acceleration? And more importantly, does the T495 have soldered RAM? The awesome thing about the T480 is how I could upgrade a bunch of things, from Wi-Fi card, to RAM, to NVMe drive, and I would not like losing that. The new T14, unfortunately, will take forever to show up in Brazil, so the T495 seems to be the logical option.
- loxs 6y ago
  As I said, everything works, except for remembering the screen brightness level. It has 8GB soldered and you can put additional 16GB on the second slot. For me this is good enough. Hardware video acceleration works out-of-the box with kernel 5.8. I am not sure if the nvme slot is soldered, but as far as I remember, it's not. It has an additional slot for a standard 2.5 inch drive which you can use to increase capacity.
ywei3410 6y ago
Here's a fix! https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-hardware/blob/master/lenovo/thinkpad/t495/default.nix https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-hardware/blob/master/lenovo/t....
- loxs 6y ago
  I know about this, but it's not that big of a deal to me, and I prefer to stick to the out-of-the-box experience on Arch and wait for a fix to arrive.