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not really
not really
Depends entirely on what you’re using the device for and how (if at all) you utilize networked (NAS, cloud, etc) or external storage. For me personally 256gb would be way more than needed, since I have nothing that would take large amounts of storage on local device.
I guess that might be true but for me just installing all the random proprietary crap like matlab takes up a lot of my storage (even more if you need multiple versions), so for using laptops in education I really doubt that 250gb is comfortably enough. I’d honestly rather pay the extra $15 than constantly worry about running out of storage.
1x 16gb would allow cheaper upgrade to 32gb later if that’s something OP is concerned about.
I don’t really like this argument because by the time they’d be upgrading ram the price of ram (of that speed/spec) would probably have depreciated a lot and it would be just cheaper to buy it in the future. It also kinda limits you to staying on that generation/speed of ram which is bad.
imo 250gb is not enough at all, at least spec a 500gb or 1tb. I don’t even have games on my 256gb machine and it’s out of storage because of proprietary software bullshit.
Buying storage directly from framework is expensive though, I recommend just buying it from a local hardware store. The cheapest out of the sn550/570/580/750/850, crucial p5, kc2500 should do.
Also, 1x16gb will halve your memory bandwidth, get a 2x8gb kit
I feel the same way but Brodie’s usually fine
do we actually know how performant the Snapdragon chips are or is it just all speculation?
agreed ubuntu is kinda shit but arch is hard (to setup post-installation) for a new user imo. You should try kde neon or smth which I’d consider to be a nice beginner distro
Potatoes are free hardware though? You can grow them yourself, study the source code, make changes to it and release it for others to use. Pretty sure you can’t do that with most modern computers
prolly because op just reposted the link from the search engine post from yesterday
The banners are so good
I just went through and tried out a lot of stuff in VMs and live USBs, and switched to an actual install when I got confident enough/was tired of USB boot speeds
maybe it’s just me but I find just doing things myself much more fun and useful than reading guides
i just started out with whatever distro looked the best in promotional pics, which was kde neon in my case (kde neon <3)
imo it’s more important to go with the interesting option (things like kde neon) than the easy option like Mint, at least it’s what gave me the motivation to try things out and learn Linux
oooh w series are cool
t430 runs great for me but if you need more (stock) performance maybe the t480?
that might be because of how buggy ubuntu 24.04 based distros are rn.
maybe have a look at kde neon or kubuntu 22.04
you could also try installing Linux Mint or something and installing kde plasma on that.
but then they won’t be able to install apps
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How much of the power consumption is from the servers and how much is from the clients?
pretty sure the sn570/550 used to be a pretty good deal
iirc they don’t sell it much anymore, maybe the sn580 is still a good deal?
sorta understandable though