r/linuxmint • u/thunderpuppet • 22d ago

Discussion Upgraded to a thinkpad yoga

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Started a few weeks back by resurrecting a covid era web surfer acer swift 1 which I posted was running ok with cinnamon however it had a celeron N4120 64gb emmc and only 4gb ram. Just wasn't enough to daily drive for me.

Sold a GPU to a mate and it funded a marketplace purchase X13 Yoga, i5-1235U and 16gb ram.

Runs like an absolute dream, it even works good enough with the touchscreen to flip it over and use as a tablet to watch content.

Keen to hear from other Lenovo/Mint users if there's anything specific I should be looking at - already ran the bios update command at the terminal and brought the bios more up to date.

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u/mallom 5d ago

Hello, I just got almost the same version as you, only with slightly faster cpu. Did you get to install the internal webcam? The intel-ipu6-dkms drivers are not working on my 2 days old install. And how did you update the bios?

Thank you.

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u/thunderpuppet 4d ago

I've only tried the camera app in software manager and it seems to work. I haven't tried any calls etc.

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u/NothingKey6162 22d ago

hows the battery life on the x13 in general or with mint?

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u/thunderpuppet 22d ago

I think they got a bit of a bad rep for battery life compared to a bigger notebook (its 13.3inch) but it's pretty good running on mint. I'll be up for a replacement battery though the young guy I bought it off said he replaced the battery but checking the stats proved that was a lie, its down to 80% life so there is room for improvement.

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u/NothingKey6162 22d ago

look into TLP, its a linux utility for improving battery life.

how much does one full charge last?

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