Jony Ive’s Mistakes: When Beautiful Design Is Bad Design

Re:Jony Ive’s Mistakes: When Beautiful Design Is Bad Design by xioxox on Sunday July 14, 2019 @11:43PM (#20437964)

Interesting on the battery lifetime. My ThinkPad Carbon X1 gen 6 can do 10-12 hrs in Ubuntu, though I had to switch the bios sleep mode to Linux. Maybe the lack of an Nvidia graphics card helps.

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Re:Jony Ive’s Mistakes: When Beautiful Design Is Bad Design by oaththrowaway on Monday July 15, 2019 @02:37AM (#20438622)

Could you go into more detail about this?

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Re:Jony Ive’s Mistakes: When Beautiful Design Is Bad Design by xioxox on Monday July 15, 2019 @03:10AM (#20438744)

I haven't done much special customization on the ThinkPad, other than updating the BIOS in Windows (it's dual boot) and changing the BIOS sleep setting. The sleep setting disables "Modern sleep", where the computer stays awake when sleeping, which isn't so well supported in Linux.

Currently I have 11 hours remaining, on 78% battery charge with a fairly dim screen (I use a setting to prevent the battery charging fully to extend its lifetime). Powertop shows a draw of 4.1W. Strangely the computer seems to run hotter in Windows and the battery lifetime is a bit shorter.

I'm using Ubuntu 18.04, running KDE. The laptop (Carbon X1 6th Gen) has a very nice keyboard, red trackpoint, 1TB NVMe SSD, 16GB RAM, i7-8550U CPU and a 2560x1440 display. It also has USB-C plus a couple of USB-A and HDMI sockets.

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Re:Jony Ive’s Mistakes: When Beautiful Design Is Bad Design by oaththrowaway on Monday July 15, 2019 @10:16AM (#20441009)

Oh okay. Looks like yours is a bit newer than mine. I don't see that option in the BIOS.

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