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Re:Apple’s Latest Macs Have a Serious Audio Glitching Bug by blinkingled on Monday February 18, 2019 @11:48PM (#19196674)
> You have to install a BIOS update.

To be fair though even without S3 sleep it is easy to drop Linux power consumption on the X1C6 to ~2.5-3W with display off and no Linux user worth their salt is afraid of installing a BIOS update which literally adds a 'Linux' mode for sleep after which it's flawless.

The BIOS update even installs without needing Windows now a days - LVFS even.

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Re:Apple’s Latest Macs Have a Serious Audio Glitching Bug by rienbdj on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @03:43AM (#19197540)
If only it actually did work flawlessly. YMMV
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Re:Apple’s Latest Macs Have a Serious Audio Glitching Bug by jes5199 on Monday February 18, 2019 @11:53PM (#19196688)
ugh I need to install that update. My X1 doesn’t even sleep right in Windows
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Re:Apple’s Latest Macs Have a Serious Audio Glitching Bug by blinkingled on Monday February 18, 2019 @11:57PM (#19196701)
Well there is no sleep in Windows - it's connected standby - which puts everything in low power mode but running. I ran W10 on it few months but don't recall having issues with conn stdby. Yeah definitely update to the latest BIOS though - 1803 issues maybe sorted by the update.
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Re:Apple’s Latest Macs Have a Serious Audio Glitching Bug by nickflood on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @01:05AM (#19196970)
You can normally enable classic sleep in Windows by setting the CsEnabled key in registry to zero. That's how I'm doing it on my XPS 15 9570. Still trash of a laptop, but now it sleeps proprly :)
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Re:Apple’s Latest Macs Have a Serious Audio Glitching Bug by baybal2 on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @01:11AM (#19196989)
> ugh I need to install that update. My X1 doesn’t even sleep right in Windows

So, it is even Thinkpad guys who can't write proper bioses these days?

Is there a single laptop out there where you can say the bios is truly flawless?

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Re:Apple’s Latest Macs Have a Serious Audio Glitching Bug by blattimwind on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @03:52AM (#19197566)
> Is there a single laptop out there where you can say the bios is truly flawless?

Board firmware (laptops, desktops, servers) is pretty much always crap.

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