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Low hanging fruit, but whatever. It is what it is.
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this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2024
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buy any AMD laptop, replace the wifi card, install your favorite distro and it will run like magic.
You get a new, capable, and power-efficient device, while not bothering with damn old ThinkPads or giving insane amount of money to s76.
until it gets completely fucked due to a form-over-function cooling system and hits 101C (NBLK-WAX9X)
Thermal pads might help.
...because HUAWEI doesn't ship their laptops with thermal paste, apparently.
Power governor on balanced and somehow I'm at like 60c. Power governor on battery saving and it's like 45c. Sometimes it cools passively. This is not sh1ntel.
my experience: power governor on balanced and somehow i'm at like 90c.
why replace the wifi? i find the amd (mediatek?) cards work well enough.
It works well enough if you don't mind the occasional disconnect and slow connection to wifi, which is true for a lot of people like me. It's still pretty annoying to deal with sometimes, just not enough to go replace the WiFi card or anything.
AMD laptops almost always ship with mediatek wifi cards. Cuz the alternative is intel, and I guess that's not cool with AMD.
But mediatek's wifi cards are a steaming pile of bovine excrement. Bluetooth issues, wifi dropouts, drivers not being mature until a year after the release.
Save your self the pain, buy an Intel wifi card for 20$ and upgrade it right after you bought the laptop. Might as well add RAM and storage. Takes an hour of work, 20 minutes of which is watching a YT video on how to do it.
35 of the remaining 40.is fucking with those tiny ass antenna connectors and wishing you'd never even bothered with the damn thing