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Re:Apple's Software Quality Crisis: When Premium Hardware Me... by cbm-vic-20 on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @09:14AM (#43254836)
> Apple "PC" hardware is solid. I use third party apps though, little Apple software,

Same. I have two "deal-brakers" when it comes to notebooks: 1) it's got to sleep consistently and without problems when I close the lid. 2) it should be silent when I'm doing simple things or nothing at all.

I have never seen a Linux or Windows laptop that does these things well. Even Intel MacBooks would spin up the fans seemingly at random. I don't think I've ever heard the fan in my M1 MBP. I'm looking forward to the new M4 MBA to replace an older Windows 10 laptop, which spins up its fans all the time, and sometimes doesn't sleep, sucking the battery dry in the process.

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Re:Apple's Software Quality Crisis: When Premium Hardware Me... by edoceo on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @09:47AM (#43255333)
I'm on a Lenovo Yoga 6 w/Gentoo and Sleep/Hibernate work as expected. Mostly quiet, until heavy work.

Had to swap the WiFi module to get the power management to work properly.

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Re:Apple's Software Quality Crisis: When Premium Hardware Me... by sotix on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @12:27PM (#43257614)
My Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Nano gen 1 running KDE Plasma Arch Linux with an intel i5 meets your criteria.
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Re:Apple's Software Quality Crisis: When Premium Hardware Me... by pimeys on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @03:03AM (#43264035)
I have Lenovo ThinkPad T14s AMD, which always goes to sleep and wakes up just fine. Bluetooth works, it's fast, quiet and has a long battery life.

AND I can use Linux, which is a dealbreaker for me as my favorite operating system.

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Re:Apple's Software Quality Crisis: When Premium Hardware Me... by pmarreck on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @10:38AM (#43267972)
https://asahilinux.org : Exists
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Re:Apple's Software Quality Crisis: When Premium Hardware Me... by pimeys on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @05:53PM (#43273878)
With many things not working, and without mainline Linux support. And with platform that is not x86.

Yes, arm and riscv are interesting. I will definitely test them in the next ten years if they still get better. For now, x86 is still the best platform for me.

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