Well he owns and runs it with my mom. No other employees (barring me helping him)

My dad went from db management to running a grocery store.

My one friend is now becoming an HVAC technician

I think that’s more than fair. But then there’s companies like linuxpusher selling laptops at a 100% price markup (refurbished business machines). Also thinkpenguin calls it something else and linuxforlaptops sells it by its real names so looking for parts is easier.

But that is awesome that PCSpecialist did that for you.

Honestly, that laptop is probably better than you’d think. A lot of laptops have really poor performing thermal compounds. Repasting to even when new will improve performance. My personal laptop got repasted and it dropped 10C under load. Mind you this is a 5825u laptop so not much power draw.

Hard agree. Even getting something like a p53s it’s still slower than an m1 base.

Thinkpenguin is just rebranded clevo stuff. Most small company laptops are like that. Everything from system76, to sager, to eluktronics. Basically if you find a laptop you like through a Linux hardware company, maybe find the chassis model and save a bit bc there usually isn’t much different between them. If you play your cards right, you can get software support through another vendor bc they sell the same laptop. (Bios updates etc)

Like the Thinkpenguin t4 is just a clevo nj50.

A new laptop with a dvd drive? Sign me up. Not a fan of the ath9k wireless card (I know why they did it, Ive never had particularly great performance from the one I have, even accounting for the fact that mine is 1x1 )

Now I want to know who makes their hardware.

Edit: it’s a clevo nj50. Well good to know that.

It would not meet OP’s requirements and honestly they are not worth it in this day and age.

Weight and temp. It also feels nice. Like you’ve noted it can be done horribly. My phones looked almost mint after removing it from the case. But also sand is hard. Also anodized aluminum can be very hard. But sand is harder.

My pavilion is about 4 years old at this point. I haven’t had that. My friend has a slightly older version with a different chassis. Their laptop does that but im pretty sure they use their laptop as a cutting board or something bc it’s actually fucked.

Mine has been motherboard swapped to the amd version. (Mobo, USB board, wifi card, and cooler needed changed).

Also the silver painted HP Laptops actually suck. Mine has had so many repairs. The bottom case has been swapped twice. The top case has been swapped once. The keyboard has been swapped twice. Same with the motherboard. (one keyboard/Mobo died from water damage)

The aluminum bodied HPs are odd. The aluminum is so soft it dents if you look at it funny. But the repairability is insane. Almost as good as a t580. Better in some aspects.

My sister has 2 t580s. One with a 7th gen i5, one with an 8th gen i7. I’ve worked on them before. Cooling system was 2x my first pavilion had (same i5 and mine had a gpu). I liked the captive screws. But the entire thing is one board. I can’t replace busted ports. She broke the main USBC for charging and if she broke the thunderbolt one, she’s kind of screwed unless if she buys a dock.

If I did that to my current pavilion, I can replace the port. I still have the USB c issue but that pavilion has a USB on a daughter board. Performs like the other USB ports. Why can’t more laptops do that?

Most people hack stuff they have.

Also I thought nouveau is decent at older cards? They got Kepler supporting either vk1.3 or 1.4.

Also there is a driver for the the Mali gpu on the pinebook pro. The person who mainly worked on the Panfrost driver actually works at Intel now in their graphics driver division.

Also wtf is this Xtensa video chip. All I see of it is just a risc-v core/cpu for embedded stuff like Audio processing (Chromebook) and the pinebook pro uses an rk3399 which didn’t even have one.

Did you get anywhere with this?

Or highway star if you like Jojo

820M is Fermi and Kepler. Same with the 810M. As if that makes any fucking sense.

I remembered it being stupid, I didn’t realize it was that stupid.

800M is weird. It’s Fermi, Kepler and Maxwell. You need to look up your specific gpu to see what architecture it uses.

Edit: It’s even stupider than I thought. Some of the 800M series are either Fermi or Kepler. Like the 820M is both. You need to make sure the GPU family is Maxwell or Kepler.

I know there is a surface specific kernel. I wonder if that would work for you.

https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface

I highly doubt it though.

Also if it’s that similar to the surface, maybe something related to the Intel ISP module? Only thing I can think of. All my Intel stuff is ancient and/or properly supported.

Edit: best I can tell, if it’s truly based on surface hardware, the camera issues are due to the intel image processing unit (IPU3). So whatever you’re missing lies here. It’s not a true camera issue. Basically your camera isn’t really USB, It goes into the blackbox that is the intel processing thing. Since there’s a skycam driver on the Lenovo driver page for your tablet, it’s probably along those lines.

Most cameras on windows are just USB. My 7th/8th gen Intel laptop is USB.

This is just me googling.

https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface/discussions/1352

This is the discussion for it on that same GitHub. Good luck with this.

I use bunsenlabs Linux and it reports as the version type, which in this case is boron. There’s a lot of scripts that see boron and not oslike which is debian. I have to manually edit a lot of install scripts for them to work as boron isn’t a valid debian version.

5825u laptops are like $300 for the same amount of ram and storage as a T480. They are much faster and quite efficient.

T480s are around the $200-300 range. I will be honest, it’s not worth it at that point.

Also true. It’s currently my media ripping machine. If I find a cheap 2 GHz pentium m I might put it in.