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Personally I'm holding out for a laptop based on the snapdragon elite X arm chips coming out later this year. Should be great for battery life (like 28 hours) and very fast. We'll see how the linux support turns out. And also which manufacturers pick it up - would like framework but haven't heard anything about that from them. Lenovo already released a system based on the old snapdragon chip so seems likely they'll release one based on the elite X too.
Got this one. I like it but support is really rough. Not officially supported but they are helping somewhat the motivated guys getting it upstream. Was advertised with 28 hour battery life as well. You can get 12 hours in linux, less in windows.
Peformancewise it is flawless. The weight is awesome. Very comfy on the lap. But its almost two years and very much is missing.
If the new generation doesn't have official linux compatibility I would not recommend buying it on release.
Good to know! An arm laptop for linux makes so much sense to me, but its a rocky start. Managed to brick my pinebook pro so I'm 0 for 1.
Sorry to hear! I really want to say it again: The manhfacture has to support linux officially. Otherwise there are things not mentioned in the documentation and the maintainers are working nonstop across multiple repositories to make it work.
Thinks of the top on my head not listed in the wikis:
These issues are somewhat mentioned. So I do not want to nitpick. Instead contributed some solutions/hints for things I was able to infer. So please don't hate me. I'm new.
I didn't know about this specifically, but I'm holding onto my 2017 ThinkPad until I can buy an Arm laptop and run Linux on it.
That's interesting... I was not aware of that. Another more element to add to my future decision ^^