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I configured my Thinkpad X280 under Arch to run at roughly 3 Joules/second. Which gives me way over 12 hours of active use time. Linux is far superior to windo
by kybernetyk 5y ago
I configured my Thinkpad X280 under Arch to run at roughly 3 Joules/second. Which gives me way over 12 hours of active use time.
Linux is far superior to windows in this regard.
- eropple 5y agoUnless, unfortunately, you've got switchable nVidia graphics. As of last year, at least, without some real gross stuff you're looking either at awful multi-monitor performance on AC power (because the dGPU is permanently switched off) or awful battery life (because you're using the nVidia chipset and it eats batteries for breakfast, lunch, and dinner).
- posguy 5y agoNvidia's Linux support story has been crummy for the last half decade, if you bought a laptop with an Nvidia dGPU and are expecting it to work efficiently in Linux then you need an expectation reset.
- disgruntledphd2 5y agoYeah, for graphics it sucks. OTOH, for CUDA it's literally just plug-and-play (at least on Ubuntu 20.04). Makes a nice change from five years ago, when I kept breaking my display in order to make CUDA work.
- 29athrowaway 5y agohttps://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PRIME https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PRIME
- Itsdijital 5y agoTo be fair the laptop is rated for 16.5 hrs.
- kybernetyk 5y agoYes, in some weird lab setting with 12% screen brightness and no user activity.
- carlob 5y ago> Joules/second aka Watts
- inter_netuser 5y agohow's the keyboard compared to 2015 macbooks?
- kybernetyk 5y agoIt's very much OK. It's different but it's still good. I prefer the MBP (provided 2015 is still the old non-butterfly mechanism) but I would have no problem with switching 100% to the TP keyboard.
- p_l 5y agoa friend got X250 with no tuning to work continuously for something like 26 hours. But thinkpads didn't tend to remove batteries to get slimmer then.