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can someone recommend a concrete laptop then, please? I have been putting off the buying of a new one for years now. (I have an old XPS 13 and a P50 with an M10
by pas 3y ago
can someone recommend a concrete laptop then, please? I have been putting off the buying of a new one for years now. (I have an old XPS 13 and a P50 with an M1000M, so ... yeah, old dogs!)
I want to put Linux on it. So far I have been looking at the legion 5 pro, because a friend got one recently, and seems amazing, though haven't yet got my hands on it long enough to try it with an USB stick with a recent Ubuntu (with a recent kernel) to test the power management feature support.
- ChrisLTD 3y agoFrom what I’ve read and seen, Linux is the worst option if you’re concerned about battery life.
- AnthonyMouse 3y agoThis is basically down to some hardware vendors writing crappy Linux drivers that don't include power saving features, while also not documenting the hardware so no one else can do it either. But that's only true of specific devices. For example, this is claimed to have 14 hours of battery life, on Linux: https://system76.com/laptops/lemur https://system76.com/laptops/lemur
- arp242 3y agoMy x270 could pull about 20 hours on Linux when it was new (it did degrade a bit over time, as batteries do). I don't recall if I fiddled with any settings as this was five years ago and the laptop since died in an accident, but I don't think I did other than setting it to "power saving" instead of "balanced". Before that I had a Dell XPS, which lasted about 7 hours IIRC, which was pretty good for the time. My Acer could pull about 15 hours when new, but it is a fairly underwhelming Celeron CPU so that probably helps. Maybe other systems are worse; I don't know, but overall things always seem to work well for me.
- NayamAmarshe 3y agoTry the starlabs starfighter.
- vGPU 3y agoSomething without a second GPU. Linux never did quite get those working properly.