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by michelledepeil 609 days ago
Highly recommend this: you can hit 50% to 70% discount from original price, plus contribute to reducing e-waste.

I've been using a third-hand T480 for many (5? 7? Can't even remember anymore) years now, and it's probably the best Linux experience anyone can hope for. Performance vs. efficiency is crazy - easily hitting 20 hours, screen-on battery life after all this time and many full discharges.
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sam29681749 605 days ago
That battery performance really surprising me. My T14 running debian averages ~5-6 hours of coding + browsing. Did you do anything fancy to get those sorts of results.
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michelledepeil 601 days ago
the t480 has two batteries! one internal and one removable. The laptop using the `tlp` package and a WM like i3wm - which I prefer for functional reasons - discharges at around 5 watts when idle, and running heavy stuff brings it up to 17W max.
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