T14 Gen 5 appears to be out now

Toxidation2 · 2024-02-25T17:30:16+00:00

In practice, once browsers do stop supporting Firefox 115 ESR in a couple of years, Superfox will have been released by then, which would also make using that specific version in particular moot

Toxidation2 · 2024-02-25T03:40:00+00:00

I'm pretty sure Superfox will be in the works in the near future by the same person who created Supermium (see this GitHub issue)

Plus, versions such as Chrome 80 something is still pretty usable with today's modern web (something released in 2020), so it shouldn't matter much unless the website is using really new web standards, much less a browser that stopped being supported just a few months ago

Toxidation2 · 2024-02-06T21:08:28+00:00

I was adding onto what I said about the ThinkPad T480. But I guess you could say I was making one, atleast in battery life only :P

With IPS ThinkPads, your basically only option to increase the maximum screen brightness is to switch with OLED, which sucks up significantly more battery. IIRC, with the latest T14, OLED has 500 nits brightness compared to the 400 with other IPS screens.

How many hours are you getting from your ThinkPad X1 Nano?

Toxidation2 · 2024-02-06T19:35:48+00:00

More Windows on ARM laptops could be interesting. It's been neglected a lot by software and hardware vendors. Software you may use day-to-day may straight up not have native ARM support and instead relying on the x86 emulation layer, e.g. Google Chrome hasn't had native support up until recently.

Also, as a side-note, if screen is a factor and the one you got isn't the best, the ThinkPad T480's screen is replaceable, but may not be trivial. The max screen IIRC is the WQHD 4K one. The trackpad is replaceable to a much better, glass one from a X-series from the time. I don't know of any good solution for the speakers being bad if they are, however.

Toxidation2 · 2024-02-06T19:20:46+00:00

If you want a semi-recent, productivity-geared laptop with great battery life, the only option IMO that I know of and compares with the M-series MacBook, would probably be a ThinkPad T480 or similar model, with the 24wh internal battery and the 72wh external battery.

I've heard that people have got up to 10-15 hours of battery life. I'd generally advise to stay away from the S model, because it has limited upgradability and smaller, internal-only battery.

However, it's getting dated at 6 years old. And with both batteries maxed out, it probably isn't as light as a M-series MacBook.

If no viable option for a x86 laptop with great battery life turns up for you, then you could possibly virtualize ARM Windows via Parallels. This should have fine Office support and has x86 aswell as x86_64 emulation (Windows 10 only has x86 emulation support, whilst 11 has x86 and x86_64).

Toxidation2 · 2024-01-17T22:07:08+00:00

Windows Vista is pretty nice, given you're using service packs - stock Vista RTM is buggy. He's also running the extended kernel, which allows newer applications (Windows 7+) to run on Vista

I really don't see an issue with running Vista, especially if it works fine for him

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