Laptop is completely silent, all the hardware runs flawlessly, battery life is after 5 years still pretty good, just overall great experience.
I honestly don't remember if I had to at some point disable something in BIOS ...
If you're using a SATA drive with the default UEFI settings, Linux will see the drive. If you use a PCIe drive, it won't until you set it to AHCI mode.
Edit: oh and Windows frequently wouldn't recognise the USB-C port unless you had something plugged into it during boot.
It also makes dual booting trickier if you don't plan it beforehand.
It frustrates me that there's not that many reviews that cover this kind of stuff, so it's hard to avoid silliness like this when making a substantial purchase like a laptop.
From what I read a year ago before doing this, you don't lose much, and software-based RAID (if you go for that sort of thing) in GNU/Linux is just as efficient/reliable, and maybe more so. And anyway, if you only have one HDD/SSD, there is no point in RAID.
> It also makes dual booting trickier if you don't plan it beforehand.
I don't think so: installing Windows will work just the same with Intel's RAID turned off.
Obviously. But why did they care to equip this laptop with the RAID by default?
