Re:Lenovo ThinkPad T460 – A Good Linux Laptop for Development
by Fnoord on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @07:29AM
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> * Macbook takes relatively forever to come back from sleep; thinkpad is practically immediate.
What about battery life?
Have you tried [1]? This is based on a HN comment. Explanations on the functions are also found here [2].
> * Macbook wireless constantly has issues connecting, to the point of having to turn off wireless and back on multiple times (this occurs often).
Which macOS version was this? Wasn't a related framework replaced recently? Or was that only DNS?
> * Opening many tabs in chrome on mac causes serious slowdowns. Have yet to see any slowdown on thinkpad even with 20-30 tabs. This also goes generally for mac beachball issues.
How much RAM is in the MBP? I had 100+ tabs open on a MBP 2010 (4 GB RAM default, replaced with 8 GB RAM, replaced 512 GB HDD with 256 GB SSD) and never had any issue with that after the hardware replacements. Are you comparing a 5 year old machine with a new one?
> In general, Arch/i3 combo is far better than MacOS for my needs (95% of time in terminal/browser).
Have you ever tried Homebrew (+ Cask) + Amethyst + iTerm2 + Tmux on the Mac?
What about battery life?
Have you tried [1]? This is based on a HN comment. Explanations on the functions are also found here [2].
> * Macbook wireless constantly has issues connecting, to the point of having to turn off wireless and back on multiple times (this occurs often).
Which macOS version was this? Wasn't a related framework replaced recently? Or was that only DNS?
> * Opening many tabs in chrome on mac causes serious slowdowns. Have yet to see any slowdown on thinkpad even with 20-30 tabs. This also goes generally for mac beachball issues.
How much RAM is in the MBP? I had 100+ tabs open on a MBP 2010 (4 GB RAM default, replaced with 8 GB RAM, replaced 512 GB HDD with 256 GB SSD) and never had any issue with that after the hardware replacements. Are you comparing a 5 year old machine with a new one?
> In general, Arch/i3 combo is far better than MacOS for my needs (95% of time in terminal/browser).
Have you ever tried Homebrew (+ Cask) + Amethyst + iTerm2 + Tmux on the Mac?
[1] http://pastebin.com/F3Sh2mjY
[2] http://blog.taylormcgann.com/2012/07/05/hibernate-from-termi...