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This sounds totally nuts. I guess I’m happy to be running a laptop where when I close the lid, it will sleep and have battery when I open the lid, in an hour or
by jitl 2y ago
This sounds totally nuts. I guess I’m happy to be running a laptop where when I close the lid, it will sleep and have battery when I open the lid, in an hour or in 2 days. I thought that was the basic requirement for being a laptop? The essential feature. It’s so surprising to hear things have gone backwards in the Windows world.
My suggestion to anyone dealing with annoying power management is to get a MacBook Pro (you can get tons of ram, we are ordering 96gb models for our engineers) and run your preferred OS in a full screen VM if you don’t like MacOS. I did this for years because I don’t trust Linux to manage battery or reliably pair with Bluetooth devices (especially Bluetooth audio), but I much preferred Linux window management and access to Docker.
Parallels runs Windows quite well, and either that, Virtualbox, or the various apps that are thin layers over the system Hypervisor.framework all do the trick.
- BlueTemplar 2y agoThat sounds more fraught and of an hassle than replacing MacOS by Linux on it ? (Though I still wouldn't recommend that, as it's still supporting Apple by giving them money & mindshare.)
- jitl 2y agoAsahi Linux is totally unready as a daily driver / production OS in my opinion. They are doing great technical work and I love reading the progress updates, but there's too many limitations as of today: No microphone, Thunderbolt/USB4, USB-C displays, or fingerprint reader; and much worse sleep/suspend compared to macOS. I mean, if you're happy with <48hr closed lid battery life, then you can get any general market "laptop" with all the issues described in the original article.