Comment by mstaoru | Hacker News Reader

Comment by mstaoru | Hacker News Reader

Interesting. I have a 12900HX laptop with 4 × 2T 980 Pro-s, upgradeable to 128G DDR5 RAM. It has a large bright 4K screen, mechanical keyboard with Cherry keys, and one PCIe v5 slot for next gen 15GB/s SSDs. It is cold and extremely quiet in normal work, gets about 5h battery life under Manjaro w/5.17 kernel. It compiles our clang projects 2-3x faster than 2022 MBP models, installs software faster than MBP users finish typing "brew install", and native Docker and general VM performance on BTRFS RAID10 is so much faster it's not even funny. I'm fine with not having XXX hours battery life which I don't need since I work at a desk, on a laptop with ridiculous amounts of telemetry which I cannot even fully control. To me, my laptop (MSI GT77) is by far the best laptop right now. Really don't get this focus on battery life that Apple peddles this year.

Price & usecase wise your machine should be compared to a Mac Studio, no?

And let‘s see what an actual Mac Pro performs like.

> Price & usecase wise your machine should be compared to a Mac Studio, no?

Also weight: over 7lbs, and it doesn't even look like that counts the power brick necessary to use the full performance of that machine. It's not a laptop by any reasonable definition; it's a luggable. It's desktop parts squeezed into a form factor that resembles a laptop until you put it next to a real human for scale.

3rd party GaN power brick is fine, not cheap (~$100) but works well at about 1/3 the size of the stock charger (which IS monstrous).

I think later this year we might see slightly smaller HX form factors with Legion 7i and others coming soon. I never really understood why extra 3-4 lbs is such a big deal, I do carry a lot of gear every day though (and squat fairly heavy), so it might be a question of habit. :-)

> I never really understood why extra 3-4 lbs is such a big deal,

I'm having a very hard time taking you seriously here. Do you really have trouble understanding why most people would prefer not to carry the weight of two laptops when they could carry the weight of one laptop instead?

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