Who changes resolution away from the screen’s native values instead of changing the DPI values?
And they switched to a resolution one that can’t even Integer-scale, and, even worse, isn’t even the correct aspect ratio.
Personally, I’ve seen a few people doing similar things, and to me it’s always an indicator that the person needs to get their eyes checked. Any person with good eye sight or well adjusted glasses should immediately notice that the text actually becomes blurrier and harder to read despite the increased text size.
Hey, I just got this Laptop for my new job after using an X230 and Retina MacBook Pro for years, nice to see it on Lemmy!
The display, case, trackpad and Linux support is top notch. The keyboard layout is a little weird though. Would anyone be interested in a longer review on my blog?
My lenovo + ubuntu combo is pretty neat
I loved my lenovo laptop. My sister had the exact same laptop and both of our laptops hinges broke. The metal hinges are to strong for the plastic chassis and eventually snaps it. So when you open the laptop, the bottom splits open in half. The performance and keyboard and screen were great. But the hinges are utterly fucked. I looked online and it seems to be a common problem. But they were not willing to repair it without having to pay like half the price of the actual laptop…
Which model?
“finally” as if system 76 doesn’t already exist.
System 76 is on another continent though.
i think system 76 is x86_64 not arm?
Why would you want an arm laptop? (legit question, not trying to be a dick) Compatibility is already going to be questionable since its running linux, adding a low power mobile focused processor would make it such a niche product it would be all but useless outside of web apps or bespoke software meant just for ARM PC’s (of which are very few).
Also System 76 does arm as well https://system76.com/desktops/thelio-astra-a1-n1/configure
They are very purpose built because ARM is not the best at general purpose PC use so it’s generally only used in PC’s when specifically needed or asked for.
I’ve had so many different laptops over the past ~10 years ranging from Dell, ThinkPad, System76, Asus, and now a newer MacBook. I’ve used Windows, Linux, and Mac OS as a daily driver OS. The only Arm chip I’ve had is my current MacBook, but to answer your question, its power efficiency is unmatched compared to anything else I’ve ever had… resulting in crazy battery life as well as a device that doesn’t try to melt a hole through my lap whenever I try and do something even remotely taxing on it.
The efficiency had better be good that’s specifically what the RISC (arm stands for Advanced RISC Machine) architecture was designed for but that’s also why its terrible for general purpose. ARM is also proprietary which always stifles progress because of licensing (greed). It’s one of the reasons that RISC-V is becoming popular despite being less efficient.
This is kinda a myth. ARM is fine for HPC or desktop use (hence there have been very high power ARM designs like Fujitsu A64FX, Ampere Altra or the European Rhea), x86 is fine for low power, it’s just more about how the specific chip is tuned for power/raw performance/price.
Apple seems very good (partially) because they pay top dollar for power efficiency and a cutting edge low power process. Most x86 laptop chips make more significant cost tradeoffs, with cheaper dies, higher clocks, more aggressive power curves and so on.
It’s not though, ARM themselves admit it. https://www.arm.com/glossary/risc.
“With RISC, a central processing unit (CPU) implements the processor design principle of simplified instructions that can do less but can execute more rapidly.”
None of this is to say RISC or by extension ARM is bad, just that where everything currently is it’s not a good choice for everyday computing. By design its as light weight and simple as possible so that it can perform its specific function faster and more efficiently with less overhead than a more general purpose processor.
Geeks for geeks has a good writeup on it.
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/computer-organization-risc-and-cisc/
Modern mobile processors are extremely powerful, and way more power efficient than desktop chips. Many Linux distros have ARM variants.
And (AFAIK) it’s mostly because they are tuned for that, whereas laptop processors outside Apple have some overzealous boosting configs/clocks these days.
You are not wrong though. Developing and supporting them (as a company) would be very labor intense, so no one really wants to make that jump beyond Qualcomm/windows.
The Clevo OEM laptops that make up most of System76 laptop offerings are getting worse and louder over time. I’ve had two successive Oryx pros that both had persistent hardware issues that outlasted my warranty coverage, the 2nd of which was simply producing more heat than 3 air cooled heat pipes could ever hope to account for. I know why they stopped selling that particular model of Oryx something like 3 months before the next one was available.
Yeah its a shame they aren’t better manufacturers out there for this sort of market. Even first party hardware seems pretty trash these days long gone are the days when a boutique PC manufacturer would go out of their way to make something that stands out. Falcon Northwest is the last holdout I know of and even they are nothing like they used to be.
Framework’s doing a pretty good job standing out for laptops anyways, with their user-repairability focus.
