I recently got a new work machine, the Lattitude 5290, for dev work with PyCharm, Docker, some VMs, some data analysis.
- 12.5" 1366x768
- personally I dislike programming on retina screens
- a priori better battery life
- i5 8350U 4C/8T TDP turbo up to 3.6 Ghz (on all four cores!)
- 32 GB DDR4
- 512 GB nvme
- 66 Wh battery
- all devices appear to work out of the box
- suspend/resume is as fast as my MacBook Pro
- VGA, GbE, 2xUSB3 (one charges when laptop is off), DP over USB-C, HDMI, SD card, SIM card
With powerstat it appears to use
- 2W when idle
- 5W Firefox + Terminal
- 6W PyCharm w/o battery mode
- 30W during
minikube start --vm-driver=kvm2 - 40W running a PyTorch script
There's a builtin app for tracking battery stats over time, including accuracy of estimates of time remaining.
Not complete obviously, but
- scimark reports combined score of 2400 (~2x my x220 w/ an i7-2620M)
- keyboard has satisfying movement (unlike new macbookbook derpboards)
- keyboard is backlit
- can't use two external displays simultaneously?
- trackpad is just ok but I use keyboard for most stuff anyway
- updates in place w/o reboot
- multiple external screens working fine, automatically used
may need to plug in HDMI before DP-over-USB-C?- was a badly seated DVI to HDMI adapter, can plug monitors in, in any order
- Firefox's renderer (or compiz? but its only Firefox that does this) sometimes stops updating the windows after changing display configuration
- burn in (load avg 12 for more than 24 hours) with some float heavy workloads ok
- Firefox Dark Reader uses GPU and burns some extra battery
- Caused a crash after plugging in monitors, was doodling in PyCharm (which had been open for a week)
- Snap had done an in-place update of PyCharm?
- kind of annoying until I think that
- Win 10 would have rebooted w/o asking to install useless updates
- macOS would have pestered me with update request every day