I’m looking to buy a new laptop. I recently switched to Linux (Fedora) and would like to stay with it (Not necessarily Fedora though).
My most important requirement is that it has a great runtime. I honestly don’t want to deal with under-volting or anything like that. A “runs out of the box” approach would be best.
13-14", no dGPU, AMD/Intel.
edit: I realized that great runtime is very different for everyone. I wouldn’t consider 5-7 hours great. More like absolute minimum is 8. Better is 10-12. This sounds very unlikely though, apart from MacBooks with ARM CPU. Any recommendations?
i have the same requirements as you. i bought framework 13.
i’m still in the confuguration phase, for now it has a decent battery run of ~6/8h of installing stuff. i’m configuring nixos.
I looked into them. And it sounded a lot of the users are not happy about the build quality compared to Thinkpads or Latitudes. How is your experience? Did you go with Intel or AMD?
Build quality? You mean replaceable parts vs glue making things feel more solid? Have I had this conversation with you before?
i just got a ThinkPad for work, it’s spectacular. but if you need to replace something…
the framework is solid, and allows to replace anything. i think the tradeoff is very fair.
Build quality on Frameworks is dramatically better than most ThinkPads. They’ve made a lot of improvements to battery life since the first generation (I got mine in the second batch), so it might have decent battery life now. They’ve always been more efficient on Linux than on Windows.
you have TLP configured?
yes but default config, i still need to look into it
Which CPU are you using? I’ve got the 11th gen i5 and battery life is just miserable, especially in standby.
i5-1340p
there is a kernel parameter to add to make standby better:
mem_sleep_default=deep.if you are on nixos you can import the framework hardware module from “nixos-hardware”. it also includes other fixes