TUXEDO on ARM is coming
TUXEDO on ARM is coming: As you may have gathered from the relevant press over the last few days, we at TUXEDO Computers are working on an ARM notebook with a Snapdragon X Elite SoC from Qualcomm. The tension rises We know that many of you are eagerly ...
Oh, these long-awaited arm laptops are designed for high TDP and have active cooling. I don't see why to choose them over Intel/AMD in that case.
Depends on the specifics. My high-end MacBook Pro uses active cooling, but in practice it almost never comes on. It's wayyyyy more efficient than the previous Intel gen.
A week or two ago, I accidentally left a Python process running using 100% of a single core. I didn't even notice for several hours, until it ate up all my RAM. On on Intel laptop the fan would've let me know in like two minutes.
I don't think Qualcomm's actually caught up to Apple yet, but it's getting close. It's good to see more competition.
Plus it's landed like, what, a couple of weeks before a new set of AMD CPUs?
I think people are about to have a rude awakening. ARM isn't magic. ISA doesn't matter a huge amount.
If they don't use another shitty tongfang/clevo chassis this might be worth a buy
What is it that you don't like about Clevo chassis? I bought one a few years ago and I love it. It's elegant and sturdy in my opinion. It's also easily serviceable, so what's to complain about it?
Mostly that they are generally made of cheap/very thin materials. They also kind of look like cheap Chromebooks (especially clevos, tongfang are better in this area). And it's also the fact that these laptops aren't really unique at all, they are mostly a logo swap with preselected components guaranteed to work with Linux. I've been using this Lenovo laptop that has a fantastic screen and an amazing CNC aluminum body, it works flawlessly and Linux support was never a consideration for them making this PC
If I am buying a laptop i want it to be unique, because if it's not then I'll just buy it straight from China on clevos website for half the price. What I don't like is this is basically drop shipping but less consumer hostile
Oh for real, I had to throw it away after one year and I got a used ThinkPad instead.
Some more background: https://tilvids.com/w/wJGQBMj2wDCJRwBH4bYPiz;threadId=19713 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40634794
Can someone do a quick explainer of what this move to ARM means for free computing? The prospects for hassle-free installation of alternative OSs? Is it good news or bad?
The good news are on RISCV. ARM has even more closed source bootloader and binary driver blobs than x86 architecture. It's supposed to be good power efficiency over Intel for a laptop, but not so sure about amd.
Thanks, that is useful. Roughly what I was thinking.
I would buy if it wasn't for the case it will take many years for the software I use to get arm support on Linux distros. I just don't feel like having to fix so many packages
The new Snapdragon architecture makes this possible for the first time for Linux with comparable performance and lower energy requirements
Perfect for people who love emulation too. Now you can play your favorite Windows x86 games on Wine on Zink on Fex on ARM