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Good laptop, but with a few small drawbacks: - No vapor chamber cooling, just regular heat pipes - Monitor has thick borders - Not 16:10 - Fn/Ctrl are swapped (all thinkpad laptops) - Thinkpad's fingerprint readers never worked reliably to me - I personally prefer USB-C network adapter instead of the bulky RJ45 - 720p camera, but most of laptops have a bad web cam... - I assume it will have very average speakers. Usu…
[0]: https://github.com/lwfinger/rtw89
[1]: Add this to the grub file : GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="amdgpu.backlight=0"
Magnificent 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.
afik not a single ryzen laptop uses ECC from the factory and documentation on compatibility is pretty horrible; this is the only thing stopping me from making the leap.
In the intervening years, I have hardly used the laptop for the purposes I had initially intended, though I do occasionally play strategy games on it.
I've mostly been using an inexpensive Chromebook as a remote Linux terminal, and then logging into remote machines to do development. With a little GNU screen startup script, it is easy to resume where I left off, regardless of my location.
I 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.
Is there a law that says that repairs must be done within 40 working days and so the repair shop takes the full 40 days? Is this because they have no competition or are supply/resource constrained?
Are the trackpads anywhere close to macbooks yet? My XPS 13 is still awful and my previous thinkpad is worse than the XPS.
I was in the mood to get a "mobile workstation", and ended up buying an HP Omen gaming laptop, which had an i7, 16GB of RAM, and discrete GPU. The idea was to be able to run one or more VMs and do hardcore development. And maybe play a few strategy games. In the intervening years, I have hardly used the laptop for the purposes I had initially intended, though I do occasionally play strategy games on it. I've mostly b…
How does the startup script work? Does it install software, and does it require root access on the dev machine?
Do you have multiple remote machines, or just one you use often?
I 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.
I 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.
It's very easy to replace the displays on these business line thinkpads.