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The good thing about them is that community is huge and great, and that they are the best laptops around as far as usability on the go goes (as in, actually typing on them and seeing what you type). It took Lenovo a year or so to add a "Linux sleep support" BIOS option, though it took community less than that to provide DSDT patches to re-enable S3 sleep.Īll I am saying is that Lenovo machines, esp Thinkpad line, are usually a great choice, but you can hit early-adopter hurdles just like with any other laptop. I remember getting Thinkpad X1 Carbon 6th gen early on in the cycle (I've also got 5th and 8th gen in the house, and X1 Yoga 6th gen which sucks with that metal finish), and the with the removal of "regular" S3 sleep, you close your laptop and it keeps running and potentially burning in your bag. While I am a devoted fan of Thinkpad laptops (they are better than Apple MacBooks because of - at least as an option - non-glare screens, keyboards and soft-touch non-wrist-cutting palmrest: two/three most important factors for a portable machine imho), that's only partially true, and rarely with a new generation of hardware.Įg. Some of this was better on Apple's hardware, some of it was worse.

There were still edge cases in hardware support, just as with any other laptop vendor, it all came down to what individual components happened to have Linux drivers. When running Linux it would do the the exact same, as it was all done in hardware. The hardware did a slow "heartbeat" with a front LED hidden behind the plastic frame when suspended (a nice effect). The Linux support for software suspend/hibernation was really flaky at the time, but it worked perfectly on Apple hardware, because all Linux had to do was to tell the hardware "do the suspend thing now" (IIRC by tweaking a file in /proc). As I recall I got 3-4 hours of active use out of my iBook, but (going to conferences) it felt like people's x86s almost always had to be plugged in. Therefore people put up with a lot to get 2-3x longer battery life.

Now history is repeating with Apple's M line. The power usage of x86 CPUs was atrocious at the time compared to PPC. There were numerous laptops with near-full Linux support, the Apple hardware wasn't categorically better when it came to that. I used an iBook G3/G4 for years as a primary development laptop running Linux, and I think your recollection here is a bit off.