Comment by 100percentjake
5 hours ago
This is tragic to read. An ARM-based Thinkpad ultrabook running Fedora on it would be a "forever" device for me. I adore my X1 Carbon Gen7 but the battery life could definitely be better and I could stand for it to run a little cooler.
It's sorta funny, the existence of Windows' stranglehold has worsened so many generations of thinkpads. The push for the S0 mac-style standby made my 11th gen X1 carbon basically unusable for me in Linux.
The standby battery life is so bad, it will burn through half the battery overnight with the lid closed. The battery life actually seems better when using the laptop opposed to standby.
Other standby modes were removed on a firmware level by lenovo despite the processor supporting it.
I still have my 4th gen X1 carbon, it was an amazing machine for 8 years and I really thought I'd get another 8-year laptop buying the latest X1, but now it sits off and only comes out for specific uses. Bought an m4 air for day-to-day laptop use.
So get a newer, better, and cooler CPU? That really has nothing to do with ARM or x86.
Apparently vendors refuse to make (cheap) x86 CPUs that can run fanless, so it has everything to do with that.
The Snapdragon X2 laptops are typically not fanless, either. Fanless just results in thermal throttling if you ever do push on it.
Fanless just means slower.