4 ms·
Lenovo ThinkPad x Snapdragon: Fanless ARM ThinkPad X13s offers long battery life
- Bancakes 5y agoTwo questions: Does it run UEFI? Does it run mainline Linux? Sometimes QC shenanigans are tiring.
- Unklejoe 5y agoI think windows 10 ARM requires uefi, so probably
- rektide 5y agoThe tablet class snapdragon chips (7c, 8c) have seen pretty proactive upstreaming. Im not sure but I think maybe Chromebook insists on a mainline or lightly patched kernel?? And that's definitely a market Qualcomm targets with these chips.
- pella 5y agodiscussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30497616 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30497616
- Shadonototra 5y ago2.5x weaker than the ARM macbook, same price qualcomm, you are not ready for prime time
- coutego 5y agoBut it might run Linux. I could take the hit in performance if Linux run perfectly (including hibernate, etc).
- Buttons840 5y agoLove competition in the fanless laptop space. Hope to see more.
- nikonyrh 5y agoAnd yet my 2.9 kg Dell Precision 7540 lasts 2 - 3 hours of office work. Didn't 3 kg laptops from 20 years back last about the same time? I don't think they lasted less than a hour. Or were they much heavier?