Re:On Replacing My MacBook Air M1 with a ThinkPad T480
by criddell on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @06:28AM
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The MBP running Linux in a VM will probably give you the T480 experience - it will be relatively slow (but still fast enough) and use a lot more battery.
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Re:On Replacing My MacBook Air M1 with a ThinkPad T480
by thoughtbag on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @07:22AM
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I can tell you now that 2022 was the year of Linux on the desktop with Apple+Parallels! :)
I have a mini datacenter on my desk right now with 5 Debian machines running, 1 Windows 10, 1 OpenBSD machine as gateway for the others. No lag.
Just now I fired up YouTube on 3 of these Debian machines in Firefox as well as one in the Windows 10 VM. All running full screen 1080p videos (a wide second display with 3 VM's, the main display showing the Windows VM). No lag.
Also, I have _never_ heard the fan on this thing. Unsure if it has one! :)
The CPU/GPU combo is of course great, but it's the 400GB/s memory bandwidth that makes all the difference I think.
([edit] oh, and the battery life is nuts.)
Re:On Replacing My MacBook Air M1 with a ThinkPad T480
by vlod on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @03:34PM
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Would you mind sharing your machine spec please? Thanks!
Re:On Replacing My MacBook Air M1 with a ThinkPad T480
by thoughtbag on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @11:34AM
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Sure; M1 Max, 64GB RAM running Ventura 13.2.1 (and Parallels Pro 18).