The ThinkPad P14s
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The ThinkPad P14s
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#2I have the same machine running Fedora. After trying Ubuntu (it is supposed to be officially supported), PopOS! and MX that was the only distro with proper nvidia drivers to use full video resolution without lagging. Did you setup nvidia drivers in Arch? Could you share the details please?
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#3I have the same machine running Fedora. After trying Ubuntu (it is supposed to be officially supported), PopOS! and MX that was the only distro with proper nvidia drivers to use full video resolution without lagging. Did you setup nvidia drivers in Arch? Could you share the details please?
My machine doesn't come with an NVIDIA GPU. However, my Ideapad previously had a dedicated NVIDIA MX 150. You can refer https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA> for more information.
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#4i have a machine quite close : i went for the p16s which is the 16 inches version. buying during christmas got me a price reduction and for 1100 euro i got a 7840U cpu, 64 gb of lddr5 ram, 1 tb samsung ssd, 16" low-power use, low-blue-light display, 89 Watt/H battery, 100W charger (instead of the default 65W one), fingerprint reader 5MPixel webcam and cardreader. for barely 1k euro you get an amazing machine. and it comes preloaded with fedora 39 where everything just works : p-state by default, modern-standby. all works fine.
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#5i have a machine quite close : i went for the p16s which is the 16 inches version. buying during christmas got me a price reduction and for 1100 euro i got a 7840U cpu, 64 gb of lddr5 ram, 1 tb samsung ssd, 16" low-power use, low-blue-light display, 89 Watt/H battery, 100W charger (instead of the default 65W one), fingerprint reader 5MPixel webcam and cardreader. for barely 1k euro you get an amazing machine. and it…
What a beast! I will try to figure why power-profiles are not working.
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#6Love the P series
I had a P50 that I stuck three disks and 64GB memory in, it was great for VMware demos or testing out a full stack with Vagrant or Docker or whatever.
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#7Awesome machine! Ask me how I know? :)
As for the power profiles issue, it's related to a problem in the BIOS that's resolved in the latest release. However, Lenovo tends not do a good job of getting these BIOSs up on LVFS timely, so you'll need to update the BIOS manually via Lenovo's website.
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#9I'm guessing the author's website is misconfigured. Every path except the root returns an HTTP 404, but the 404 page loads some JavaScript that fetches assets based on the URL. For example, the ThinkPad blog post loads https://utkarshsingh.xyz/assets/thinkpad-p14s/thinkpad-p14s....
This mostly works, but some browsers will display a warning or their own 404 page. Also it means his site won't be indexed in search engines.
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#10Same machine here as well, running the latest Ubuntu (23.10) power profiles do work but auto-cpufreq is way more effective in increasing battery runtime for me.
I can get ~6h of runtime (~10W draw) if i mostly just code in VSCode + some browsing, with display at 1/3 brightness and the code being executed remote. Went with the OLED panel, so that definitively doesn't help battery runtime, but damn those colors are nice :)
I wish they would fit in a bigger battery or do some more tuning so that some cores could actually turn off if they aren't used, id happily accept the spool up time for big jobs, if this could increase the battery runtime a few hours/allow for higher brightness. What kind of runtimes/draws are you getting?