Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end 16-inch MacBook Pro

Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by kube-system on Thursday November 12, 2020 @08:40AM (#25069707)

I bought a thinkpad hoping to avoid quality issues that I’ve experienced with other machines. The hardware is great (except for the wimpy cooling), but I have had various annoying issues with drivers, bios updates, and the behavior of their system update tool.

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Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by m4rtink on Thursday November 12, 2020 @10:56AM (#25071151)

Maybe that's Windows or Windows pre installed bloatware specific ? The high end thinkpads (t/x/p/w/carbon) are generally well supported by Linux distros, partially thanks to many kernel and distro developers using them.

As for bios (well EFI these days) that should be handled very seamlessly via fwupd on all major Linux distros: https://fwupd.org/lvfs/devices/

(Frankly seems much more robust to how it is handled on Windows - not at oll or via half broken OEM bloatware.)

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Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by thekyle on Thursday November 12, 2020 @03:10PM (#25074276)

You can also buy some ThinkPads with Linux preinstalled now if you don't want to worry about hardware compatibility issues.

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Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by blunte on Thursday November 12, 2020 @08:46AM (#25069765)

It's been a couple of generations since I used the Thinkpad, but wiping and carefully reinstalling only the useful drivers/apps was how to did it. Perhaps it's locked down now such that you can't do that (and if so, I wouldn't buy it!)

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