FR, I had a £4k top spec one, Intel i9, 64GB as my work laptop… And even back then, I wouldn’t have bought it myself for £800 if given the chance. Absolutely atrocious, particularly in terms of thermal design. I remember one summer, having Intel vTune installed and seeing the CPU laptop throttle to 0.25 GHz with Zoom open, because it would wake up the power hungry GPU and the laptop couldn’t deal with a British 30°C summer.
The Apple Silicon ones are lovely in comparison. When I swapped it, I remember going through a whole flight using my laptop without charging thinking “what sorcery is this”.
Shame there isn’t a decent equivalent ARM laptop that can do Linux.
FR, I had a £4k top spec one, Intel i9, 64GB as my work laptop… And even back then, I wouldn’t have bought it myself for £800 if given the chance. Absolutely atrocious, particularly in terms of thermal design. I remember one summer, having Intel vTune installed and seeing the CPU laptop throttle to 0.25 GHz with Zoom open, because it would wake up the power hungry GPU and the laptop couldn’t deal with a British 30°C summer.
The Apple Silicon ones are lovely in comparison. When I swapped it, I remember going through a whole flight using my laptop without charging thinking “what sorcery is this”.
Shame there isn’t a decent equivalent ARM laptop that can do Linux.