De-Suckafying Apple’s Butterfly Keyboard

Re:De-Suckafying Apple’s Butterfly Keyboard by rdoherty on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @10:37PM (#18918048)

I've had an X1 Carbon for a few months, coming from a 2015 MBP. Track pad is pretty bad compared to a MacBook. Everything else is very good. I got the high res screen too and it is comparable to a retina display IMHO.

I've installed Ubuntu 18 with 0 problems. Sleep works fine, haven't had any issues with wake up. You do need to install some custom software and change a BIOS setting for it to use 'Linux' sleep mode (or something like that). Battery life is 'pretty good', not exceptional like MBPs, but definitely in the 6hr range.

Overall I'd recommend a X1 Carbon, especially since you will spend nearly $1k less on the comparable specs.

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Re:De-Suckafying Apple’s Butterfly Keyboard by dkhenry on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @01:02PM (#18923174)

If you update the firmware on your X1 you won't need the custom software any more. That was on an old version of the BIOS, the new one has a single setting for linux that makes everything work on a stock distro.

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