From OS X to Ubuntu

Re:From OS X to Ubuntu by montyboy_us on Monday January 09, 2017 @08:06PM (#13361615)

+1 on the X1 Carbon. I made the switch this year, too, post MacBook Pro announcement. Have been running Fedora flawlessly. Cheers.

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Re:From OS X to Ubuntu by nishs on Monday January 09, 2017 @08:14PM (#13361659)

Could you comment on your battery life experience / any heating issues?

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Re:From OS X to Ubuntu by viraptor on Monday January 09, 2017 @08:41PM (#13361797)

Previous generation X1. Easily getting 6h of scripting. (As in, no heavy compiler or processing needed) Slightly warm, but no issues with heat.

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Re:From OS X to Ubuntu by phongngtuan on Monday January 09, 2017 @11:19PM (#13362536)

Tbh that does not sound very good for a flagship model...

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Re:From OS X to Ubuntu by viraptor on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @12:34AM (#13362863)

I've never seen a laptop actually survive longer than 7h practically. The advertised battery life may say >10, synthetic benchmarks may say a bit lower. But once you use it with wifi on, with proper brightness, actually doing some work - no - it always takes a big hit.

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Re:From OS X to Ubuntu by phongngtuan on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @02:00AM (#13363213)

Did you try windows, or if linux with lightweight use, would it improve the battery life? I had a macbook pro for 4 years so battery degraded and the processor wasn't that efficient but anecdote for newer macbook rarely reports anything less than 6 hours. I'm interested in a X270 (for the battery) but then I read somewhere battery on linux is kinda unstable. What do you think?

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