Tuxedo Developing a Snapdragon X Elite Linux Laptop

https://www.phoronix.com/news/TUXEDO-Snapdragon-X-Elite

by fariszr • 2 years ago

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dijit• 2 years ago

Hell yeah!

I have a GPD P2 MAX (tiny little laptop, 8") and have long thought that the thing would be a menace if it had an ARM CPU.

The largest issue with the laptop is its fan noise which is grating, hopefully the ARM renaissance does away with the notion that "if the CPU is not 99C then there's performance on the table and we should throw more power into it!".

Similar arguments are used all the time about wasting resources, it's really tiring.

jeena• 2 years ago

Because I always only see reviews of the Tuxedo laptops where the reviewer only has been using it for a couple of hours and I have experience from about 6 years ago when i bought the InfinityBook from Tuxedo back then and used it for only one year until I had to replace it.

When mine arrived everything was looking good and working without problems. After one month or so the Bluetooth stopped working. I even installed windows on it to check that it's really not a software bug and indeed even with windows the bluetooth didn't work. I sent the laptop in and it took about 3 weeks for it to be fixed and sent back to me.

They replaced the BT chip and it was working again. But about one month later both the BT stopped working again and the microphone if I remember correctly, there was always a static sound on all recordings (even when I installed Windows to test). I again sent it in and again after 3 weeks it came back fixed.

Then the plastic bezel around the screen started coming off so I just lived with it because I didn't want to send it back again, but I couldn't fix it myself. Then where the palms rest I started getting discoloring, couldn't remove it either.

Also the palm rests started getting yellow after some months, it looked very weird as if the laptop was dirty.

I don't remember what the trigger was, but after one year I stopped using this laptop for which I spent about 1000 EUR and bought a used ThinkPad instead.

And I'm not the only one, a friend of mine who introduced me to Tuxedo had similar problems and also had to send in his InfinityBook several times so they would fix it.

It was like 6 or 7 years ago, so hopefully they were able to fix some of the shortcomings.

luckyshot• 2 years ago

Had a similar experience with a Tuxedo InfinityBook Pro 14 Gen 6.

In my case I spent 1,850€ (~$1,990) and ended up buying a ThinkPad P14s, couldn't be happier now.

Rinzler894• 2 years ago

Life lesson: don't buy from boutique HW manufacturers that don't (yet) have a solid reputation on warranty and service centers in your area. All they do is rebadge a Chinese OEM design and sell you that with a Linux/FOSS sticker.

So far I've been mostly happy with Lenovo.

butz• 2 years ago

You might want to look up reviews made by "The Linux Experiment" (https://tilvids.com/c/thelinuxexperiment_channel/videos), Nick is using Tuxedo devices daily.

Rinzler894• 2 years ago

He's also being regularly sponsored by them. As much as I like his channel, I wouldn't take his advice on these laptops as unbiased.

nymiro• 2 years ago

Similar experience, ironically the experiment of going from thinkpad to a “linux tailored laptop” aka tuxedo infinitybook triggered the final decision of getting a macbook after spending months exasperated trying to make the tuxedo work as expected.

jmkni• 2 years ago

Is it 13" and fanless? If so, goodbye MacBook Air :) (maybe...)

ofrzeta3• 2 years ago

I bet the M1 is far superior to the Snapdragon.

Rinzler894• 2 years ago

Superior at what? Charging a higher price? Running MacOS?

ChrisArchitect• 2 years ago

[dupe]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40632809

rbanffy• 2 years ago

Good thing ARM laptops are becoming ubiquitous. Tuxedo will have theirs, but so will Lenovo, Dell, Acer, Asus and many others.

And Apple, but the Apple ones are on a different league. I use Apples as the Unix machines (and heirs to the NeXT lineage) they are, and I install Linux on the rest, whenever possible.

Tuxedo Developing a Snapdragon X Elite Linux Laptop

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