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maccardyesterday at 11:10 PM0 repliesview on HN

Honestly - I think it must be a laptop thing. I have a similar spec laptop [0] for work, and it's... borderline unusable. I can ignore the upsells, always online, etc but the OS is just fundamentally falling apart more and more every other release. If I unplug the power cable, it throttles itself to the point of being neutered, and if I try to put it to sleep it _very regularly_ will just stay awake and drain its own battery.

My work desktop on the other hand (i9, 64GB ram, 4080 GPU) is absolutely screaming and I have some of the same problems but they're nowhere near as bad.

I don't think I could genuinely buy another windows laptop.

[0] https://www.dell.com/en-uk/shop/laptops-2-in-1-pcs/dell-xps-...