I’m considering buying a laptop from Tuxedo, but I’m in Australia and I’m not sure how bad that idea is. Does anyone have experience or recommendation? I would not buy from any american company though. Is there a risk to not go through the country, or that I would have to pay a massive tax on it?

I bought 2 lenovos before. It seems to be getting worse for Linux and Amd. My first one was awesome, the second one had so many issues and I have to use a usb wifi and blacklist the internal one, so I probably want to skip lenovo this time, even if I have to pay a lot more.

  • guismo@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
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    2 days ago

    My case is very specific because I live in a van, so power usage is a massive issue. My first thinkpad is roughly 45w, which is awesome. The second one can get to more than 60, which is bad, but it’s close to twice the performance of the first one, so it’s ok.

    Now it seems that they use like twice the power of my second one, while being just a fraction better. That’s not ok. Kind of the main reason I wanted to upgrade was to see if I could get more performance with the same power usage, which is already kind of as high as I want to go. The current result is disappointing.

    230w would be like 4 times more than I’m ok with. Even if usb-c could do that, which is anther requirement I have (no AC power).

    So I might stick with what I have…

    • dialectalraveling@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      Oh yeah, you aren’t going to fill that niche unless you move into something outside the Linux-first group. Even my System76 Lemur draws 65W.

      I’d love to hear if you find something else out there. Sometimes I need to order field gear for very remote jobs, and more recommendations are always welcome. I hate only using those ginormous toughbooks.

      • guismo@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
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        2 days ago

        Well… my issues with my current thinkpad https://www.lenovo.com/au/en/p/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpadt/thinkpad-t16-gen-2-16-inch-amd/len101t0076 are: -non expandable memory. 32gb would be nice -non expandable drive, I’m still using the old one just because I have a 1tb m.2 that I can’t use on this one. (but you can put another wifi, or a 4g modem, I don’t remember, some bullshit they thought would compensate for this) -bultin wifi barely works. -no micro sd card, which would be useful for me. -I had massive battery issues. They replaced it, but it now often goes from 50% to 2% for no reason. No recalibration fixes it.

        Other than those things, I quite like it. It’s powerful for its energy usage.

        But seeing how many issues I wrote… yeah I guess it’s not something I one can recommend. All issues are debatable, but the battery and wifi can’t be ignored.