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New Leaks of the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Nano

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Re: New Leaks of the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Nano

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Post by RandomBacon »

heelix wrote: post #90
RandomBacon wrote: post #79

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Weird. I bought a torx screwdriver to open my new XPS 13, and the screwdriver stripped. I bought a better screwdriver, and didn't have any problems with the screws or screwdriver after that. (Stripped screwdriver was Husky brand from Home Depot, better screwdriver was a less-expensive, higher-quality one from Harbor Freight.)

Can confirm Home Depot/Husky did not have a happy ending on one screw. Which Harbor Freight set you pick up? (was getting ready to mix the epoxy for the one screw/bit)

Pittsburgh Pro, 34 pc. precision screwdriver

The label is on the back. The front is a clear lid which shows the flexible extension, a straight extension, the screwdriver (black and green), then four rows of bits.

It's a pretty decent set. It's kind of funny though, the warning label on the back says to wear "heavy duty work gloves during use."

Re: New Leaks of the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Nano

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Post by samoa42 »

bitwize wrote: post #140
72deluxe wrote: post #20

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Haha it's insane why it would need so much RAM for chat. It's truly insane.

Not really. It's a matter of which variable do you optimize for? There was a lot of Hackernews moaning on the thread for the blog post where the guy laments Kubernetes and its effect on etcd -- about how modern software is too complex and this and that. But simplicity is not what they're optimizing for. They're optimizing for productivity -- specifically, how fast a typical corporate webdev shop can go from zero to w…

> But simplicity is not what they're optimizing for. They're optimizing for productivity

it's not only simplicity we're leaving on the table but efficiancy (resource usage) as well. this is not sustainable industry practice (see climate crisis, rare earth depletion). the need for ever more hastly crafted apps is compareable to the need for cheap plastic toys from the 1-dollar store i.e highly questionable.

Re: New Leaks of the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Nano

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Post by pkamb »

heelix wrote: post #128
pkamb wrote: post #100

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ThinkPad T61 models changed from 1400x1050 (SXGA+) to 1440x900 (WXGA+) when they went widescreen. They literally just lopped off 150 vertical pixels. There wasn’t some corresponding gain in horizontal space. You could fit the same number of xterms side-by-side on either laptop.

I had one of the lovely T61s models that did 1600x1200. That machine had a long, long lifespan for a 3+g memory it could support. Miss the 4:3

Probably still worth something to the right person!

Re: New Leaks of the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Nano

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Post by fomine3 »

Narishma wrote: post #96
jrockway wrote: post #86

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>= 120Hz is great for everything, not just games. Moving your mouse (or scrolling) on a 60Hz monitor after you've used something higher is like looking at a slide show. For example, on a 60Hz monitoring, try panning around a Google Map and reading the labels. They just become a mushy blur. On a higher refresh-rate display, you can read the labels as they move. (I always found this to be an interesting demo: https://t…

> >= 120Hz is great for everything It's not great for battery life.

In the same way, Flagship SoC is great perf but not great for battery so we can choose to buy middle spec SoC.

Re: New Leaks of the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Nano

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Post by fomine3 »

rrrazdan wrote: post #73
regularfry wrote: post #31

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I was doing some work on an old 4:3 IBM X41 last weekend. Reminded me what we've lost.

Stop romanticising the past. :) You are certainly having more characters vertically on screen on current environments plus having more horizontally.

IMO avoiding 16:9 aspect ratio is no longer important on dedicated monitors but still important on laptop monitors.

Re: New Leaks of the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Nano

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Post by amalantony06 »

rwmj wrote: post #122
amalantony06 wrote: post #51

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What sort of a use case requires you to run "lots of VMs"? What nature of development do you do?

Some of the software I write must work on various different Linux releases (with different kernels), FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Haiku and Windows. This is realistically only possible because I have all these running in different VMs. I'd like to add macOS to the mix but it's something of a pain to virtualize. I'm aware of hackintoshes but there seem to be a bunch of gotchas and it seems you can never upgrade them. I also have…

Makes sense, thank you!
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