I got an ASUS Nitro 5 when the screen on my Lenovo i3 kept cutting out and voided the warranty before I got it home by installing a 1 TB SSD with Arch instaaled. To boot Arch I have to hold the F12 key down while it powers up or it boots windows 10. Wouldn't buy another ASUS mick down under On Sun, 23 Jul 2023 at 10:00, Nic Strike <nchief@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Personally, I'm currently using a Razer Blade 15 that I'll be replacing soon with the Framework 16. If the Framework wasn't coming out, I'd likely be buying a thinkpad. > > On Sat, Jul 22, 2023 at 6:18 PM Eric Waller <ewwaller@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> >> >> > However I have heard it is a pain in the ass to repair, and replacement >> > parts are scarce. >> >> Have not had the need to repair, but I was astonished it shipped with >> brackets and FPC cables for the second drive. >> >> Here is a link to the service manual >> >> https://dlcdnets.asus.com/pub/ASUS/nb/Customer_self_repair_guide/X712EA_Customer_Self_Repair_Guide_20210701.pdf?model=k712ea >> >> > How long is the battery life (typically with normal load)? >> >> When I am on batteries, I am using the system to diagnose embedded >> systems. This includes the use of USB to serial converters and serial >> terminal emulators. I do embedded systems development with jtag >> programming tools for uploading code to microcontrollers. I also use >> network tools such as wireshark. This includes the continuous use of >> WiFi, and the display of multiple video streams generated by our >> systems. In this sort of operation, I get about six hours if I start >> at 100% and take the batteries all the way down. I try not to do that. >> I prefer to set charge limits to 80% and cycle to not deeper than 20%. >> >> Eric > > > > -- > > Nicolas Strike
