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The listing price was $2700 on purchase. I bought it for around $1800. The $650 dollar are from the Lenovo outlet store. I could sell this laptop for less then $500 on ebay.
More insights I gained using this laptop (intended for the curious Linux enthusiast):
- Kernel support for Audio and Screens is heavily dependend on user space: X.org and Wayland experience differs immensely. Even some udev-rules only work with certain compositors (and X11 feels like it is out of scope).
- Debian lacks people contributing to the linux and linux-firmware package. The onboarding is quite steep due to a lack of alignment between code and documentation.
- Developers if userspace programs react very fast to new requirements but they rely on upstreamed (to Debian's kernel-team) kernel-config's.
- Prompting bugs to the kernel appears to be done through kernel contributors only: Users will prompt hindrances on IRC (via OTFC, #aarch64-laptops) prompting the contributor and they will verify and support before addressing issues.
- There are archived advancements to the support which can't be merged due to citation reasons and alignment with upstream can't be done by the individual (there is a pareto-capable kernel for virtualization but within one week hunderts of commits need to get reviewed). This is impressive imo.
I see; Thank you for teaching me. From now on I will try to be more objective and inclusive!
In real life I am known to be upfront (and too fast many times as well). No excuse - just some perspective from myself I have to think about.
How dare you!
I know that's why I made this post: My hopes were high up and I payed the price. So I shared my experience.
Appreciate your follow up, Sir or Madame.
They claimed 28 Hours of no connectivity video playback with a moderate amount of brightness (if I recall correctly about 50%). It may get there half (Windows or Linux) but you will be at 0% left.
Yeah; Told you I am disappointed in some way.
A friend of mine bought an used M1 and Linux support is limited to this day. I just want to run Debian (stable).
Framework doesn't have (and still hasn't) an aarch64 CPU.
The benefits of an ARM-Linux based laptop for me are:
- Running my obiquitious OS (Debian).
- No fans and less heat on the lap (note that charging heats the battery which in turn heats the laptop. Though this is just 25 Minutes to charge up and this laptop [X13s] cools down very fast)
- battery life (I can safely assume 6 heavy hours of no-plugin vim, REPL and browsing).
You may come up with downsizes and I bet I can address these with easy workarounds to stay within my requirements.
Of whom?