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0 pointsblinkingled14y ago0 comments

Ooh, no, I beg to differ. Reality is quite different. Lenovos are near perfect Linux machines - everything including power management, various buttons, suspend/resume etc. works great.

MBA is far from ideal Linux machine - Apple's EFI implementation is well known to be crappy to the point Linux kernel developer mjg59 routinely blogs about it. Power management sucks - for example - it runs hotter, battery dies in 2-3 hours tops. On my X220 I can get 6+ hours and it never gets hot.

[EDIT]: Check this out http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1810275 for the pain involved. In comparison my X220 had one minor issue that occurs under heavy load but can be easily fixed.

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thoughtsimple14y ago· 2 in thread

I have to wonder about the Linux requirement though? What do you do on Linux that can't be done with OS X underlying BSD? If you are a linux developer then I can see it but if you are doing almost any other development or design, there is little to recommend Linux over BSD and many reasons why OS X is superior as a desktop OS.

wazoox14y ago

> many reasons why OS X is superior as a desktop OS.

I'm posting this from my MacBook, but I'd say only one thing: Focus follows mouse. That's the one true way.

blinkingledOP14y ago

> I have to wonder about the Linux requirement though?

Matter of personal preference really. My "Desktop" machine is Windows 7 which happens to work better for my needs than OS X - Blu-Ray, AnyDVD, Hulu/Netflix without fan noise etc. That's where I do all my media/email/browsing/chat etc. Linux is primarily a development machine - I find it better for OSS development than OS X. (Plus in my case I hack on the kernel some times so that's another compelling reason.)

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