Ask HN: What does one look for in a laptop these days?

Re:Ask HN: What does one look for in a laptop these days? by gadiyar on Thursday October 14, 2021 @11:23PM (#28873836)

So which laptops do a good job of reliably supporting S3 standby/suspend? Any idea if the Framework laptop does?

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Re:Ask HN: What does one look for in a laptop these days? by chx on Saturday October 16, 2021 @05:58AM (#28886723)

You can check which ThinkPad BIOS has the option at their BIOS emulation site: https://download.lenovo.com/bsco/index.html

For mine it's under Config // Power // Sleep State. Windows 10 means useless Modern Standby, Linux means S3. https://i.imgur.com/Y5CchL9.png

In this covid helped me because I learned about this before I cooked my expensive new laptop in its bag :(

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Re:Ask HN: What does one look for in a laptop these days? by lpcvoid on Saturday October 16, 2021 @12:02PM (#28888796)

Wow, that is an incredibly cool thing for an OEM to offer. Never seen this for any other vendor before.

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Re:Ask HN: What does one look for in a laptop these days? by tlavoie on Sunday October 17, 2021 @04:22AM (#28894854)

What does it mean if there is no sleep setting here? I haven't actually rebooted my P50 yet, but the simulator doesn't have this option showing.

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Re:Ask HN: What does one look for in a laptop these days? by chx on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @12:02AM (#28926616)

The P50 very well might predate this Modern stuff.

Type

powercfg -a

and see:

The following sleep states are available on this system:

Standby (S3)

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Re:Ask HN: What does one look for in a laptop these days? by tlavoie on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @01:03AM (#28926949)

True enough, thanks for the info. I can't complain either way, whatever suspend mode I have works well and quickly. Hibernate does work (all under Linux here as a rule).

I'll have to try powercfg next time I boot into Windows.

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Re:Ask HN: What does one look for in a laptop these days? by sfotm on Saturday October 16, 2021 @11:28AM (#28888522)

The Framework Laptop does not support S3 suspend. I have it running with S2deep in Linux, which works okay, but it isn’t a fantastic scenario. Hibernation is the way when the processor doesn’t support S3, unfortunately. Even Windows would fall back to it after a short duration.

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Re:Ask HN: What does one look for in a laptop these days? by zmk5 on Saturday October 16, 2021 @12:18PM (#28888903)

Yes, this is my only beef with the laptop so far. I really hope we get a firmware update with S3 enabled soon.

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