One of the DIMMs is soldered to the board on the latest T series. I give it a generation or two before RAM is completely un-upgradable.
ThinkPads 2020 - X13 AMD - X1 Nano?
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#42ThinkPads make better MacBook Pros than Apple-official products - by far and large. I’ve got a 2017 MacBook Pro and a 2016 Lenovo ThinkPad and the ThinkPad runs circles around it. It’s also literally a hybrid drawing tablet laptop running MacOS - so unimaginably useful as a creative - and something Apple doesn’t offer, unless you want half-baked iOS software (no Illustrator, no Animate, no Blender) on an iPad Pro. Ev…
Do they still only have lackluster displays? Thinkpads maxed out at 1080p long after other premium laptops offered 4k.
They do, and for creative work this is still their Achilles heel.
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#43I love thinkpads but I wish one came with a decent mobile gaming gpu. I guess that's not at all the audience the thinkpads are for though.
I have this on my P52
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP107GLM [Quadro P2000 Mobile]
It's enough for most games. However buying a thinkpad for gaming is like buying a Tank to do groceries.
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do they still only have lackluster displays? Thinkpads maxed out at 1080p long after other premium laptops offered 4k.
The X, P, and T series Thinkpads have 2k and 4k options depending on the model. The 4k options in particular are extremely nice with excellent color gamut.
I have a X series with nVidia graphics. Quite nice machine! But gid, does the graphic card eat battery life! It is charging extremely fast, so. Didn't opt for the 4k display due to battery life, but the option is there.
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
Like this one ? https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/accessories-and-monitors/top-te...
That one is actually something similar to what I'm using, except mine is just $24 on amazon and doesn't need any drivers. https://www.amazon.com/Lenovo-USA-ThinkPad-40A20090US-Thinkp...
New thinkpads dont have dock connector on bottom. they use usb-c + thunderbolt + dock connector on left side.
works without installation of any drivers.
Re: ThinkPads 2020 - X13 AMD - X1 Nano?
#46I love thinkpads but I wish one came with a decent mobile gaming gpu. I guess that's not at all the audience the thinkpads are for though.
I have this on my P52 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP107GLM [Quadro P2000 Mobile] It's enough for most games. However buying a thinkpad for gaming is like buying a Tank to do groceries.
I know, and I guess if I'm mobile would I be doing heavy gaming anyway? I'd probably just play roguelikes and magic arena
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why is it "ridiculous" to use a 10Gbps (or 40Gbps if you're spendy) bus to carry data? 'Cause I just sit down, plug any of my laptops (all of which have USB-C in, and everything just works. Windows, Linux, Macs (n.b.: this required a bit of a hack because they don't support MST, but it's not a huge deal)--sit down, go. Vendor-locked lower-bandwidth docking ports are an antipattern.
The one thing I miss about old docking stations is that they were basically a bunch of dumb wires. I've had to power cycle my Thunderbolt dock a couple of times because its software managed to hang itself.
That's definitely a thing in some configurations. I had a T580 that really didn't like Lenovo's own dock under Fedora 29. Smooth sailing with every other machine I've tried, though.
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Do they still only have lackluster displays? Thinkpads maxed out at 1080p long after other premium laptops offered 4k.
This. I tried using a Dell XPS and a Thinkpad as replacement to Macbook. But had to return both because I just can't get used to any other display after using Retina display, specially because the laptop is my TV as well.
XPS:es have superb 4k displays too, but you might have got the version with a 1080p. Retina is after all just a marketing term for "High DPI", with no real standard for what "High" is.
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#49ThinkPads make better MacBook Pros than Apple-official products - by far and large. I’ve got a 2017 MacBook Pro and a 2016 Lenovo ThinkPad and the ThinkPad runs circles around it. It’s also literally a hybrid drawing tablet laptop running MacOS - so unimaginably useful as a creative - and something Apple doesn’t offer, unless you want half-baked iOS software (no Illustrator, no Animate, no Blender) on an iPad Pro. Ev…
Do they still only have lackluster displays? Thinkpads maxed out at 1080p long after other premium laptops offered 4k.
They improved that. The X1C Extreme can be had with a great OLED panel for instance.
400 nits matte displays in other models are also excellent.
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#50Hopefully they will have some Thinkpads with regular docking station not this ridiculous cable based solution everyone is trying to push now.
They should just have more than one USB-C / USB4 port. Having just one is ridiculous.
USB-C is USB3, not USB4.
And every X-series Thinkpad has at least two, as far as I know.