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Right now I have an HP Spectre laptop that I'm running Linux on. It's showing its age as my daily-driver for work (only like 4 years old). It can manage to pump
by francislavoie 6y ago
Right now I have an HP Spectre laptop that I'm running Linux on. It's showing its age as my daily-driver for work (only like 4 years old). It can manage to pump out the 3440x1440p60 signal over USB-C thunderbolt that I need, but just turning on youtube or a video call makes it slow to a crawl, it can barely keep up.
I've been eyeing an upgrade to a Dell XPS because it ticks pretty much all the boxes for me, but it's Intel. I'd much rather go AMD, but thunderbolt support is a huuuge plus for me because I have a Dell monitor with USB-C that acts like a KVM. Button on the monitor to switch from my windows desktop to my linux laptop, swaps over all my USB devices at the same time, charges the laptop through the monitor; only one cable to do it all! It's AMAZING.
So I'm wondering what kind of support for Displayport over USB-C this System76 laptop will have. I realize I won't be able to do the whole "one cable to do everything" approach here (omg can we please standardize on USB 4 already so everything can do this? gah!) but if I went in this direction, how much would I need to do to plug in everything?
- ancientworldnow 6y agoYou probably just need to reapply thermal paste to your current laptop and it will speed up dramatically. The paste only lasts a few years and then it's forced to throttle heavily under high workloads like videos.
- francislavoie 6y agoHmm. I would, but disassembling this thing doesn't seem like a fun time. But I need the upgrade anyways, I'm bottlenecked by certain aspects (16GB RAM but many of my workloads end up needing more, so my next laptop would need 32GB).