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I love thinkpads but the T480 is basically objectively worse in every single aspect except price and repairability. I don’t think I can go back from all day battery and quiet CPU during high loads. I could definitely use my T450 for however long I need and know I can replace parts, but I’d rather have macs for 5 years and upgrade for another performance bump. Some things are just nicer
No mention of insanely fast NVMe on M1?
It's only insanely fast compared to previous Macs. The commonly found Samsung 970Pro SSDs were doing read/write speeds up to 3,500/2,700 MB/s since 2018. And newer SSDs run circles around those speeds (like 10GB/s or more of read/write).
> upgrades will cost you around $150 total on AliExpress I'm upgrading a thinkpad (x220) with new monitor and battery and a few more upgrades, so I have an idea of the cost of upgrading I'm sorry but the price of the upgrades is not that low, how do you get to that total upgrading: - monitor - wifi card - trackpad - battery that does not add up that said, I like the end result, and I'm really curious about the trackp…
that's a really weird choice especially when you want to doa comparison with a macbook.
> Windows
also suboptimal in my opinion. thinkpads are fantastic linux machines. i'm running Mint xfce on my 480 and really wouldn't know what could be better about the experience.
there are only three things i like better about macbooks: screen, switching workspace with 3 finger swipe, speakers
Be careful grabbing it by the corner like in the picture, it can flex the motherboard and cause the RAM to unseat https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/mh974q/for_everyo...
Thanks for the lead!
No mention of insanely fast NVMe on M1?
I ended up upgrading to the 14" M1 Max, and there is literally no way you can make a comparison of these two machines, they are worlds apart, build quality, screen quality, weight, battery life, single core & parallel processing, speakers, trackpad - everything.
The only thing the TP wins is bang-for-buck on the second hand market, and getting head turns from neckbeards, thats about it.