So, I went out with my daughter to look at laptops for back-to-school and the store was dominated by Windows machines with Snapdragon X Elite chips at very reasonable prices. The energy efficiency, battery life, and quietness of these laptops is amazing. Also, I notice they all have these new NPU chips for AI, which I’m ambivalent about.

I’m a Linux-on-Thinkpad man, so I checked online and was happy to see that Lenovo is offering Snapdragon-based Thinkpads now. With these new developments, maybe it is finally time to upgrade my old T540p.

Has anyone here had experience yet running Linux on a Snapdragon-based laptop?

    • sailingbythelee@lemmy.world
      OPEnglish
      3·
      1 年前

      That’s what I have, but she likes the slim new hotness, and really prioritizes battery life. She isn’t worried about Linux performance, though, because she doesn’t use it, lol.

      • Findmysec@infosec.pubEnglish
        41·
        1 年前

        Take her to therapy to get rid of her love of slick.

        Then give her chonky thinkpad with external replaceable batteries.

        Part of this was sarcasm, the other was not :)