Re:Ask HN: What does one look for in a laptop these days?
by darzu on Saturday October 16, 2021 @12:34PM
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Yes, Surface devices have this problem. It was a frequent occurrence for me to put my Surface Book into my bag and later take it out completely dead or hot and drained.
Re:Ask HN: What does one look for in a laptop these days?
by spicybright on Saturday October 16, 2021 @01:36PM
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Wouldn't put all the blame on hardware. It's a back and forth sometimes to get the OS and hardware working together.
It's not a 50/50 responsibility split, but it's definitely not 100% on hardware.
Do Microsoft Surface devices have this problem (the heat/fans spinning/high battery drain while sleeping, I mean)? If not, then Microsoft has no need to be embarrassed; it’s the rest of the PC laptop industry that should be embarrassed for not shipping hardware that does the right thing when the OS asks it to.
(Though, I mean, the rest of the PC industry should already be embarrassed, for still shipping new PCs in 2021 that don’t have Thunderbolt/USB4 ports, and desktop PCs that don’t even have a single USB-C port.)
There’s also the fact that Microsoft is (perhaps by accident of fate) “building for the future”; a lot of Windows 11’s assumptions in particular make sense given hardware and CPU steppings in mind that should have shipped a year ago, but which are caught in the COVID logistical conga-line and so won’t be seen for another year. That includes e.g. Intel CPUs with ARM-like big/LITTLE designs.