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I have a 12th Gen. It's the best laptop I've owned. (I've had a Samsung ATIV book 9, and before that a high-end Sony Vaio, both 13 inch). One thing I must me
by Max-Ganz-II 4y ago
I have a 12th Gen.
It's the best laptop I've owned.
(I've had a Samsung ATIV book 9, and before that a high-end Sony Vaio, both 13 inch).
One thing I must mention in particular : the keyboard is die for.
I had no idea a laptop keyboard could be like this.
I used my Samsung keyboard for many years, perfectly happily - but now I can't use it. It is now so unbelievably flat and lifeless. I am now forever spoiled for lesser keyboards.
I worked on power management, not much work was needed, and I get 11 hours battery life on a 90% charge.
(Basically, use powertop to figure out what processes were using a lot of power (turned out to be Tor and WINE), and then also realise anything plugged into the USB ports took a lot of power, and finally that the powertop power optimization needed to be re-run after a reboot. That got me down to under four watts, but it means no mouse - mouse adds about three watts, which is too much.)
I'm very happy also that reduced battery charge levels (I keep mine at 50% these days, now the power cuts are a thing of the past) are available in the BIOS, and also full battery disconnect (I'd like it even more if I could change battery charge level in software - but the key issue is the functionality is present).
I love the exchangable ports - currently I have 2 USB-C and 2 USB-A, which will in time change to 4 USB-C. I also have an ethernet port, should I need it, and HDMI.
The screen resolution is not 4K, which I had on my Samsung, and thought before I bought it could be a problem, but it simply isn't.
I also love the community. That it's a niche laptop with a highly computer literate community makes it really pleasant.
FYI, I'm running XFCE on Debian.
- jancsika 4y agoWhat's wifi like?
- insane_dreamer 4y agoworks well for me
- Max-Ganz-II 4y agoSeems fine. I don't know what the theoretical max is from the router (it's not my router), or the wifi in the laptop, but I've seen 1mb/sec coming down, so it seems to be doing everything it should be doing.
- teruakohatu 4y ago> mouse adds about three watts, which is too much. Have you tried a different mouse?
- Max-Ganz-II 4y agoNo. It's also three watts for a USB stick - I think it's not the device.
- insane_dreamer 4y agoI have one as well, running Ubuntu. ~~Very~~ happy with it. (edit: maybe not "very happy" but "happy") I agree the keyboard is excellent. But the trackpad is crappy -- the one blight on this otherwise good laptop, IMO. Actually, the second issue I have with is the power drain when in sleep mode. Apparently this is fixed on Windows but not Linux. You experience that as well?
- Max-Ganz-II 4y agoTrackpad crappy in what way? It seems utterly normal to me? Yes, the power drain is sleep mode is abnormal - I've read that the USB ports are to blame, and it will be fixed in upcoming firmware.
- insane_dreamer 4y agoGliding is okay, but clicking is not responsive enough, and click-drag is hard to execute (particularly compared to the Macbook).
- Max-Ganz-II 4y agoAh, I understand. Yes, I can see all of that. I don't have trouble with it, but I do know what you mean when you say it :-)
- tomnipotent 4y ago> Trackpad crappy in what way? I like it less than my Macbook, but more than my Thinkpad. Find it just a bit too sensitive, so I'm always accidentally dragging things when scrolling.
- Rebelgecko 4y ago1. The force needed to "click" varies depending on where you put your fingers. Clicks near the top of the track pad take more oomph 2. AFAICT you can't change the scroll speed on Fedora (not sure if that's Framework's fault but still super annoying)
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