Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

ThinkPads 2020 - X13 AMD - X1 Nano?

github.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

91–100 of 133 posts

Re: ThinkPads 2020 - X13 AMD - X1 Nano?

#91

Post by pengaru »

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #68
pengaru wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Burning cds/dvds is still a very convenient and dense affordable form of offline storage for backups and/or content hoarding.

Doesn't optical media degrade to the point of no longer being readable after a few years?

My personal experience has been surprisingly good even with cheap TDK CDRs I burned in the 90s still reading just fine decades later.

For especially valuable data you want to preserve for 100+ years, there are "archival quality" discs [0] [1].

[0] http://mam-a-store.com/goldcdr.html

[1] https://www.mediasupply.com/mamgold.html

Re: ThinkPads 2020 - X13 AMD - X1 Nano?

#92

Post by nextos »

aortega wrote: post #85
asveikau wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Forgot to mention the #1 benefit - replaceable HDD/SSD and upgradable RAM. Need to capture this rant here about part selection. My x1 carbon 6th gen shipped with a crappy SSD which showed random errors in dmesg and would occasionally cause the machine to reboot randomly. Then a few weeks ago after about a year of use it totally died. I googled the model number of the drive and found I was not the only one to experi…

The X1 is a work of art. The lightest, tinnest laptop and is also one of the easiest to upgrade. Except for RAM...that would make it perfect.

It's a very good machine, but I would not call it a work of art. The touchpad is not very good and has QC problems. The coating is uneven and/or rough in some units.

There's also too much glue in the internal assembly.

The wireless card could perform better.

Re: ThinkPads 2020 - X13 AMD - X1 Nano?

#93

Post by ksec »

lostgame wrote: post #21

ThinkPads 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…

>(went to the Apple Store, tried the 16” keyboard, still not impressed)

Thank You, along with the rant from Taika Waititi at Oscar. There is still hope the old keyboard with more key depth will come back.

There hasn't been a single improvement I like about the Mac both in terms of Hardware and software since 2015. ( Edit: Ok there was Mac Pro ) Sadly Windows hasn't made much improvement in 5 years either.

Re: ThinkPads 2020 - X13 AMD - X1 Nano?

#94

Post by jpalomaki »

whatsmyusername wrote: post #69
lostgame wrote: post #21

ThinkPads 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…

We buy refurb MacBook pros. Our specs are 256g ssd, 16g memory, hexcore + Applecare. We buy 15in machines because the vast majority of the company wanted 15in machines and I'm barely going to put the brain juice in to support one line of machines let alone two. You're paying around $2.2/2.5k a piece. We buy 1 or 2 every month depending on hiring or whenever I find someone who has a machine like the one you describe (…

Typically for corporate use you would pick a Lenovo model with next business day onsite warranty. So in case it breaks, somebody will come over to fix it.

(This is why the components are easy to replace in those laptops)

Re: ThinkPads 2020 - X13 AMD - X1 Nano?

#95

Post by pathartl »

6d6b73 wrote: post #36
randomcomments wrote: post #20

Earlier 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...

You're linking to a device that has been deprecated, of course it's going to be cheap. Look at that MSRP.

Re: ThinkPads 2020 - X13 AMD - X1 Nano?

#96

Post by eropple »

shmerl wrote: post #62
eropple wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

USB-C is USB3, not USB4. And every X-series Thinkpad has at least two, as far as I know.

In the future USB4 will replace USB-C, so I wrote about both current and future cases. My E495 has only one and it's rather annoying (since it's also used for charging).

That’s kind of what you get with E and L models though. They’re bargain models. T and X models provide more ports as part of the value prop.

I’ve seen a few power pass-through docks, though. Might be worth looking into if you haven’t already.

Re: ThinkPads 2020 - X13 AMD - X1 Nano?

#97

Post by appleiigs »

japhyr wrote: post #51

I was feeling pulled back towards non-mac laptops for a variety of reasons, but I think I just came up with a good strategy looking forward. If I were just doing my own dev work, I'd probably have a well-specced thinkpad running some version of linux. But I need to support people using all OSes, so I need a mac. If I need a mac, I'd like that to be my only computer, and just run windows and linux in VMs. I got a 13"…

Not sure on your exact requirements, but I did the opposite. High end desktop, dual boots to PC and Linux. Then got the cheapest macbook air. Reduced the apple tax this way. Got tons of performance for cheap, check out latest AMD CPUs.

Re: ThinkPads 2020 - X13 AMD - X1 Nano?

#98

Post by asveikau »

nextos wrote: post #92
aortega wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The X1 is a work of art. The lightest, tinnest laptop and is also one of the easiest to upgrade. Except for RAM...that would make it perfect.

It's a very good machine, but I would not call it a work of art. The touchpad is not very good and has QC problems. The coating is uneven and/or rough in some units. There's also too much glue in the internal assembly. The wireless card could perform better.

Not to mention my complaint, they sell it with a bunk SSD. Googling around it seems not to be an isolated case.

I like the machine a lot though, it's pretty close to my ideal. I hope that nothing breaks on me again.

Re: ThinkPads 2020 - X13 AMD - X1 Nano?

#99

Post by 6d6b73 »

lostgame wrote: post #81
pengaru wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Burning cds/dvds is still a very convenient and dense affordable form of offline storage for backups and/or content hoarding.

Really? With the cost of SD cards what they are? Like, I can get a 128GB SD card for $30. That would be 170 CD’s - nearly 30 DVD’s - which will eventually suffer disc rot. DVD/CD write speeds are very slow, comparatively speaking to even USB 2.0 transfer speeds - and increasing the speed, in my experience, makes exact copies of discs extremely error-prone. Explain how this is efficient? Genuinely curious, with the pr…

How about bluray? 25GB for ~$0.70. Personally had so many sd cards, and even usb sticks fail that adding another type of storage as a backup for important files really makes a lot of sense.

Re: ThinkPads 2020 - X13 AMD - X1 Nano?

#100

Post by ericd »

japhyr wrote: post #51

I was feeling pulled back towards non-mac laptops for a variety of reasons, but I think I just came up with a good strategy looking forward. If I were just doing my own dev work, I'd probably have a well-specced thinkpad running some version of linux. But I need to support people using all OSes, so I need a mac. If I need a mac, I'd like that to be my only computer, and just run windows and linux in VMs. I got a 13"…

I do something like this - Macs as thin clients mostly used to SSH into a Threadripper workstation running Ubuntu. Add tmux with automatic attaching upon login via ssh to make your ssh sessions persistent. Add port forwarding to your router and a cronjob to your workstation to periodically ping a dynamic dns provider (entrydns works well), and you can ssh into your workstation from anywhere you have internet access.

It works really well, and means you never have to futz around with things like homebrew.

Post reply on HN