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Re:I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great by carlosjobim on Saturday January 10, 2026 @12:16PM (#46567631)
Battery life was always better on Macs, along with a bunch of other things.
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Re:I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great by raw_anon_1111 on Saturday January 10, 2026 @12:18PM (#46567657)
Apple did some OS optimizations. But the next to last x86 laptop generation (the butterfly keyboard era) was really bad. The keyboards were bad and they had poor thermals
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Re:I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great by carlosjobim on Saturday January 10, 2026 @12:27PM (#46567776)
Yes, those were far from perfect. Keyboards were horrible. Still superior in many other aspects.
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Re:I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great by xerox13ster on Saturday January 10, 2026 @12:19PM (#46567667)
Yeah, but that’s Mac, not Linux on Laptops of the era designed for Windows
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Re:I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great by hecifato on Saturday January 10, 2026 @01:48PM (#46568695)
I remember battery life on my Late 2015 MBA was great for the time. It easily got through my post-secondary classes, 3-8 hours depending on the day, with leftovers. IIRC Apple claimed 12 hours of battery life. That was a significant improvement over the suggested 5 hours of my previous laptops.
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