Apple fans are coming to hate Apple software

Re:Apple fans are coming to hate Apple software by tluyben2 on Monday February 08, 2016 @06:04PM (#11061614)

Maybe not important for you but crucial for me; the M3800 has dismal battery life. And probably with Linux that is even worse.

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Re:Apple fans are coming to hate Apple software by MatthaeusHarris on Monday February 08, 2016 @07:01PM (#11061945)

I'm running an M3800 with Mint Linux 17.3. I can squeeze 2 hours out of the battery if I really need to; suspend/hibernate is currently completely broken, requiring that I cold boot the machine each time I open the lid; bluetooth has never worked properly, even after extracting the proprietary firmware from the Windows drivers.

And this is on a machine that shipped from Dell with Ubuntu 14.04 installed, so supposedly all the hardware is open-source friendly.

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Re:Apple fans are coming to hate Apple software by tuananh on Monday February 08, 2016 @07:44PM (#11062169)

I could never accept ~2 hours on a $2000-ish machine.

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Re:Apple fans are coming to hate Apple software by stronglikedan on Tuesday February 09, 2016 @04:33PM (#11068952)

I get 5-6 hours with Windows 8.1. I have a dimmed screen and passive CPU cooling when on battery, and I don't do much video.

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