A few months ago, I bought a nicely packed and customized P14s Gen 1 in France (Qwerty !) with 16GB and 400 nits for under 1000 euro.
Wow that's a great deal. Via some discount coupons or was it second hand?
New Laptop: Thinkpad P14s
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#12How did you buy it if the website shows a message that it is not available yet?
https://ok2.de/ThinkPad/P14s-14/ThinkPad-P14s-AMD-Gen-2-21A0...
OK, I saw this page
https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/coming-soon/P14s-AMD-G2/p/22WSP...
and I thought, it is not possible to buy it yet.
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#13Magnificent ThinkPad model. Too bad the soldered-on RAM precludes the possibility of using ECC modules. The Pro version of the Ryzen CPU means ECC compatibility.
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#14I own one of these. Upgraded from my Surface Book 2. No complaints so far, except that the Fn key is where the Ctrl key should be and I keep pressing the Fn key :)
You can change it in the UEFI so that Fn acts as Ctrl and vice versa.
> You can change it in the UEFI so that Fn acts as Ctrl and vice versa.
First thing I do on every thinkpad. It would be very interesting to know what percentage of customers actually wants that Fn key in that location instead of Ctrl.
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#15I own one of these. Upgraded from my Surface Book 2. No complaints so far, except that the Fn key is where the Ctrl key should be and I keep pressing the Fn key :)
You can get around this by mapping Caps Lock to Ctrl, which is easier to press anyway. It's probably a good idea even if you don't use a certain modifier-key-heavy text editor.
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#16A few months ago, I bought a nicely packed and customized P14s Gen 1 in France (Qwerty !) with 16GB and 400 nits for under 1000 euro.
Wow that's a great deal. Via some discount coupons or was it second hand?
As it was for my daughter, there was a 10% student discount but there were other discounts, too.
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#17I want to love thinkpads, but the fact that in 2021 you still have a display lottery frustrates me to no end. You buy a MacBook Pro you get an A+ display. Thinkpad? You might get one with the good display, you might not.
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#18I own one of these. Upgraded from my Surface Book 2. No complaints so far, except that the Fn key is where the Ctrl key should be and I keep pressing the Fn key :)
You can get around this by mapping Caps Lock to Ctrl, which is easier to press anyway. It's probably a good idea even if you don't use a certain modifier-key-heavy text editor.
The Sigma move is to assign Ctrl onto the Alt key (which is right next to the spacebard), and then Alt to the Capslock Key. Then you can activate Ctrl (alt key) with your thumb (far more frequently) instead of your pinky.
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#19I own one of these. Upgraded from my Surface Book 2. No complaints so far, except that the Fn key is where the Ctrl key should be and I keep pressing the Fn key :)
You can change it in the UEFI so that Fn acts as Ctrl and vice versa.
It's a shame they aren't the same size so I can pop them off and switch them around
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#20Are the trackpads anywhere close to macbooks yet? My XPS 13 is still awful and my previous thinkpad is worse than the XPS.