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Re:Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at ... by danieldk on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @06:28AM (#31094879)
Dell XPSes are good too

Unless you plan to put them into a bag or backpack suspended:

With regards to transporting your laptop in a bag or backpack, safety should be your primary concern. You should always turn the laptop OFF [...] Under no circumstances should you leave a laptop powered on and in any sleep/hibernate/standby mode when placed in a bag, backpack, or in an overhead bin. The laptop will overheat as a result of that action.

https://www.dell.com/community/XPS/FAQ-Modern-Standby/td-p/7...

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Re:Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at ... by FormFollowsFunc on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @06:37AM (#31094945)
It’s a problem with Windows. I’ve a dual boot MacBook Pro and I run into that issue only when I put the laptop to sleep when running Windows. I don’t have the issue when running MacOS. You would think after 30 years Microsoft would figure out how to keep a computer asleep.
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Re:Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at ... by fortran77 on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @09:11AM (#31096364)
If you run it on supported hardware it works just fine. The Macbook Pro is simply not open enough for Windows or Linux to support it.
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Re:Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at ... by weberer on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @08:56AM (#31096180)
There's a BIOS setting you have to change in a lot of laptops nowadays. The default, power hungry sleep mode is usually labeled "S1" or "Windows modern standby". True sleep mode is often labeled "S3" or "Linux", confusingly enough.
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Re:Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at ... by danieldk on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @09:10AM (#31096359)
If it's an AMD laptop or older Intel. Intel has deprecated/removed S3 support in Tiger Lake-U:

https://www.reddit.com/r/System76/comments/k0fm7z/system76_l...

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Re:Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at ... by noisem4ker on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @07:47AM (#31095516)
Past, informative discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28639952&p=2
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Re:Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at ... by uberduper on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @09:29AM (#31096634)
This is true of any laptop. I've cooked a 2012 macbook pro in a backpack because suspend didn't work right.
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