I will need to get a laptop in the foreseeable future, and I really want to stick to Linux. However, I may need to be out-of-home for 12+ hours straight in a day. After some research, it seems people are generally not that impressed with battery life on Linux?

The laptop does not need to do anything heavy duty, as I will remote back into my already very beefy desktop back home.

I guess a common solution to this light use case is M2 MacBook if one wants to completely throw battery concern out of the window. Well… let’s just say it’s a love-hate relationship.

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    1 year ago

    I couldn’t find one locally either. Ended up ordering a returned product from Amazon abroad, a friend of mine then shipped it over. The stuff I do to avoid Nvidia…

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      1 year ago

      I was buying a new laptop subsidized on 80% store credit, so I could only go for what they had in stock, unfortunately. I still haven’t had a single computer with an AMD GPU, but iGPU laptops give me a taste of what things could be like without NVIDIA…