First Impressions: Lenovo T14s with Qualcomm Snapdragon ARM64 CPU

I love it(in context of FreeBSD):

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What does not work: Keyboard, mouse, TB & USB-C ports, thermal/freq mgt.

Conclusion: Highly recommended

That was a bit ironic, indeed, but at least the USB-A works!

For what it's worth, the majority of mechanical RGB keyboards and mice are USB-A anyways, so, if you're fine with a very powerful machine that wouldn't have an internal keyboard support for a few weeks, sounds like a good advice anyways!

An ARM64 is "a very powerful computer"? The whole promise with ARM is better thermals and long battery life, not screaming performance. With the thermals/cpu not working, we don't even get that.

M4 crushing benchmarks and AWS running Graviton 2 would disagree on the idea of "whole premise".

I always knew hardware discussions on HN were below the normal standards. But sometimes I am still surprised at how low it can go.

And it usually ends with some weird implied conclusion, like “AMD-Intel duopoly bad, Apple monopoly good”.

I wonder what I would discover if I do some archeology and look at HN discussion when Apple used PowerPC CPUs.