Ask HN: M1 MacBook Pro or Lenovo X1 Carbon with Ubuntu

Re:Ask HN: M1 MacBook Pro or Lenovo X1 Carbon with Ubuntu by apohn on Thursday October 21, 2021 @12:26PM (#28946869)

Just FYI, Lenovo is having a terrible time fulfilling orders. Months of delays with a complete lack of transparency around actual ship times. Not to mention just a comical process around rejected payments and other issues.

I ordered a Thinkpad in July with a ship date of 10-14 days. The ship date has basically slipped to March of next year. I check the ship date every week or so and it bounces around a lot, telling me they have no idea when it will actually ship. I can't even imagine what will happen if they ship me a defective laptop and I have to get it replaced.

I'm 95% at the point where I'm going to cancel the order and switch to either a Framework laptop or a Macbook Pro.

This doesn't help answer your question, but if you need the laptop soon, The X1 Carbon may not be the answer.

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Re:Ask HN: M1 MacBook Pro or Lenovo X1 Carbon with Ubuntu by krisdigital on Thursday October 21, 2021 @12:42PM (#28947166)

OMG, that sounds worse than I expected.. I just asked in their chat window if it is somehow possible to get one earlier than 6 weeks (it said at least 6 weeks) but it isn't :) Their website is also kinda crappy, btw. I am currently running Ubuntu on my old Macbook and it is perfectly fine and fast, but because of a problem with the discrete GPU I don't know how long it will last, sometimes it won't start anymore.. I am looking at the framework laptop again, can't remember why I discarded it... Probably a Macbook is still the least of trouble and best hardware - for the price of being locked in..

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Re:Ask HN: M1 MacBook Pro or Lenovo X1 Carbon with Ubuntu by yuuu on Thursday October 21, 2021 @06:14PM (#28951483)

I ordered mine on October 8 and it's arriving tomorrow. The estimated date when I made the order, though, was three months out. Maybe I just got lucky.

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