Just work on Linux/Ryzen power management and fixing abhornet sleep... Then you can better compete with M1/M2s reasonably. It is a very basic and straight forward reason that Macbooks can sleep for a month and still work but no Linux laptop I've seen even lasts a week.
Ubuntu Making Progress On The Lenovo ThinkPad X13s Arm Laptop Support
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Nice, but an X13s Gen2 is way overdue at this pointPreferably with USB4 and real upstream drivers for everything. I'd also like to see one of these powered by coreboot, but seeing as the current gen chip isn't supported yet, it doesn't seem realistic. Plus they probably use some stupid FW verification scheme that would prevent modification anyway.
I'm starting to think that my next laptop might be ARM based. That fanless enclosure and much more battery are great. And it helps that my primary use case is developing open source firmware that can be cross-compiled and doesn't need much performance to build. But I have my doubts about the firmware... I've been burned with horrible FW too many times to buy anything that I can't put my own firmware on. Perhaps a chromebook edition may come at some point. That would be my perfect laptop.
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Originally posted by mihau View PostNice, but an X13s Gen2 is way overdue at this point
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Originally posted by coder View PostI was with you until this part. Qualcomm had stopped designing their own cores. They used to, but starting with the Snapdragon 835, they switched to using ARM's own IP.
Apple, on the other hand, has poured $billions, first into acquiring PA Semi (2008) and then Intrinsity (2010), to design their SoC's fully in-house. Aside from their GPU IP, which is thought to be still largely derived from Imagination/PowerVR, pretty much everything else was designed by them. That's why, even on the same node, Apple has substantially out-performed every other ARM core and has done even better on perf/W.
It's like bizarro world how many people just don't want to believe that Apple, a company with annual revenues over 100x of ARM, 20x AMD, 6x Intel, and 5x of Tesla, is capable of designing its own CPUs. Just because we look down our noses at Mac users and don't like Apple's walled garden doesn't mean they don't have some great tech.
I mean their SoC's are so power efficient that they are still beating the competition with Apple's infamous "substandard" cooling solutions on their laptops (although I disagree with this statement because Apple just prioritizes noise over cooling, its just they can get away with it now)Last edited by mdedetrich; 21 February 2023, 09:16 AM.
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Originally posted by mdedetrich View Post
(although I disagree with this statement because Apple just prioritizes noise over cooling, its just they can get away with it now)
But you arent wrong either. My G14 will run fanless... if I configure it that way. But its clocked very aggressively out of the box, which I find annoying in a laptop.
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