On: Lenovo announced ThinkPads for 'better sustainability and extended repairabilty'

[cjk2]

I just replaced my daughter’s T14 gen 3 with a MacBook Air M2 because the thinkpad lasts 2 hours on battery and gets hotter than satan’s nuts. Terrible machine.

[happymellon → cjk2]

Weird, my AMD T14 gen 3 lasts 6-8 hours and doesn't get hot at all.

[cjk2 → happymellon]

Yeah that's because it's not the Intel variant :)

Incidentally I get about 13 hours on my MBP.

[happymellon → cjk2]

I have to use a Mac for work.

I'm fine not being subjected to MacOS in my spare time.

[cjk2 → happymellon]

It's the other way around here. I always run a different platform at home to work. It's part of keeping sane in this industry.

Then again the latest macOS broke me completely. But it's not like Microsoft haven't done that several times...

[happymellon → cjk2]

Which is why I'm doing great with Fedora on my personal ThinkPad.

[PennRobotics → happymellon]

Consider yourself lucky.

I've wasted at least a full work week's time figuring out whether speaker/keyboard/suspend/lid/forcepad/stylus/overheating/GPU/scaling/dock/HID audio/application problems in my Z13 Gen 1 were caused by Lenovo, one of Lenovo's partners, the Linux kernel, Fedora, Wayland + GNOME, or just cosmic radiation.

[speedgoose → happymellon]

Still not enough for a long workday though.

[happymellon → speedgoose]

No one is productively producing for over 8 hours non-stop.

[speedgoose → happymellon]

True, but longer days happen once in a while and not having to carry a charger is nice.