[ale] Good Laptop for Linux these days

[Solomon Peachy]

On Fri, Aug 04, 2023 at 03:59:49PM -0400, Phil Turmel via Ale wrote:
> Somewhat true, in my experience with this unit.  It sleeps for about 6-8
> hours before it kills the battery.  64GB of ram may be a contributing
> factor.  But battery life has never been good the way I run this--a couple
> hours, tops.

Yeah, when I doubled the RAM in my current laptop (a 3.5-year-old Lenovo 
T495), it noticably hurt suspend time.  But even with its old battery, 
it still easily holds out a day when suspened.

(I've only ever run Linux on this thing, so I don't know how that 
compares to performance under $other_os.  But every bit of hardware, 
including the fingerprint reader and cellular modem, works without 
proprietary drivers, and Lenovo also pushes all firmware updates via 
lvfs/fwupd too!)

BTW, this is a list of all of Lenovo's "personal systems" (as opposed to 
servers) that they have formally tested (and support) with Linux:

  https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/solutions/pd031426-linux-for-personal-systems

 - Solomon
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Solomon Peachy			      pizza at shaftnet dot org (email&xmpp)
                                      @pizza:shaftnet dot org   (matrix)
Dowling Park, FL                      speachy (libra.chat)
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