Published: July 29, 2025
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Looking for recommendations on a fanless laptop, needs good screen and battery with a not terrible keyboard and runs Linux. 16GiB of ram and 0.5TiB disk is good, and somewhat performant. ThinkPad x13s with the Snapdragon 8cx3 needs replacing Needs to be silent, I hate fan noise

I wonder if @FanlessTech has any recommendations

@kbsingh I love my snapdragon X Elite laptop, but Linux doesn't run on it 😔

@ibuildthecloud Oh man, in a past life and being younger this would have been a challenge I would contribute to solving.

@kbsingh Not sure if it’s fanless (never heard them come on even under load) but I love my Arm T14s. If you tell me your distro of choice I’ll throw it on a live disk and test hardware compatibility.

@unixterminal I think if fedora works, pretty much everything else follows it. Thanks.

@kbsingh /subscribe

@kbsingh Are there other laptops that aren't ThinkPads?!! Surely not. /Me looks at pile of 15+ thinkpads in the corner, some 20 years old, most of which still run fine!

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