Framework Laptop 16 Delivers Great Linux Support and Performance

Re:Framework Laptop 16 Delivers Great Linux Support and Perf... by TkTech on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @02:55PM (#39108832)

Battery is what prevents me from taking my 13 framework with me when traveling. I spend most of my time in pycharm, rebuild docker containers constantly, and have celery + postgres + redis running full tilt. The fan is running constantly, it's always burning hot, and the battery lasts under 2 hours (if I'm really lucky).

Previous generation Macbook running the same workload last for 6+ hours.

That said, for someone who isn't going to be running every core at 100% all the time, I'd still recommend it.

Edit: Oh, and under arch with the latest kernel, I find many monitors that cannot display video output over usb-c, like the Dell U4919DW.

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Re:Framework Laptop 16 Delivers Great Linux Support and Perf... by nathancahill on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @05:08PM (#39110645)

Mildly curious what kind of task requires that usage profile on a laptop (in general but especially while traveling?)

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Re:Framework Laptop 16 Delivers Great Linux Support and Perf... by adastra22 on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @07:46PM (#39112153)

You don’t dev on a laptop?

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Re:Framework Laptop 16 Delivers Great Linux Support and Perf... by TkTech on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @09:02PM (#39112709)

When I occasionally go into the office it's a ~4 hour round trip by train, and I work during that time. It's simply running a dev environment.

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Re:Framework Laptop 16 Delivers Great Linux Support and Perf... by callalex on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @01:27AM (#39114284)

I think you need to clarify your question because the comment you are replying to clearly states the workload they have?

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Re:Framework Laptop 16 Delivers Great Linux Support and Perf... by olddustytrail on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @05:19PM (#39110754)

At the end of the day, all the work a CPU does turns into heat. If you want less heat you need the CPU to do fewer calculations.

If you have processes pegging CPUs at 100% and you don't want them to, then use a cgroup to limit their CPU time.

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Re:Framework Laptop 16 Delivers Great Linux Support and Perf... by callalex on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @01:30AM (#39114297)

>If you want less heat you need the CPU to do fewer calculations.

You do understand that different machines can do the same calculations with different amounts of energy, right?

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Re:Framework Laptop 16 Delivers Great Linux Support and Perf... by mixmastamyk on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @03:13AM (#39114889)

We all understand battery life isn't framework's strong point.

Still, if your dev environment is using CPU constantly you're likely doing something inefficiently. Redis and postgres don't do much unless you ask them to, for example.

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