Leaving htop running freezes macOS High Sierra

Re:Leaving htop running freezes macOS High Sierra by tomxor on Saturday January 06, 2018 @10:47AM (#16085711)

I stuck with the hardware (albeit quite old) and went linux for similar reasons.

The older hardware can be quite nice with linux, but my next notebook wont be a mac, not due to value for money (spec and built quality balance is actually quite good for price these days), but because all attempts to run linux or any OSS on the more recent models are a disaster.

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Re:Leaving htop running freezes macOS High Sierra by chrissnell on Saturday January 06, 2018 @04:57PM (#16087703)

Try a modern ThinkPad with Intel graphics. I promise, it will work great.

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Re:Leaving htop running freezes macOS High Sierra by tomxor on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @09:13AM (#16114991)

I know it's a traditionally good brand for compatibility, but for me they sort of dropped quite far from the top of the list since becoming a chinese owned company and for superfish etc. (To clarify my problem with it being chinese is the prevalence of injecting backdoors into absolutely everything from state or otherwise, and these days we have to worry about hardware too)

If I was to buy right now my list is roughly in the order of:

    - Dell XPS 13/15
    - Razor Blade (It's getting official linux support soon)
    - Librem 13/15
    - One of the million and one thinkpad models although I have no idea which

I'm most likely to just wait longer though :P the only thing to die on this old thing so far is the keyboard springs out of sheer wear and the battery. I'm gona replace the keyboard soon myself.

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