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Lenovo announces the first Arm-based ThinkPad

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Re: Lenovo announces the first Arm-based ThinkPad

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Post by sandGorgon »

pantalaimon wrote: post #105
sandGorgon wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://getfedora.org/en/workstation/download/ Fedora 35: aarch64 DVD ISO should work. Just FYI, we run our entire production api on arm on AWS. Its pretty rock stable and mature. The stability of ARM on linux is pretty much a solved problem at this point.

Are there really no more model specific images required?

generally not. unless Qualcomm is doing something very different.

aarch64 works in all chromebooks - and also the AWS Graviton platform in production.

there's a nice repo that AWS maintains for this - this should be very helpful. https://github.com/aws/aws-graviton-getting-started

We are basically in the endgame here.

Re: Lenovo announces the first Arm-based ThinkPad

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Post by throwaway984393 »

plantain wrote: post #102
tiku wrote: post #96

At what point will there come laptops that have a slot for an extra battery like an 18650 or 26650 battery that can sustain a full workday extra? That would be nice, just to carrey a small spare battery.

Every USB-C laptop has this - charge it like you would charge your phone on the go, from a powerbank.

I would not take that wager. Just because it has a USB-C port doesn't necessarily mean it has support for anything other than basic USB device support.

Re: Lenovo announces the first Arm-based ThinkPad

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Post by goosedragons »

3pt14159 wrote: post #93
daptaq wrote: post #73

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> Biggest lie ever. People want 16:10, but for years the industry shove 16:9 to your customer because it was the cheaper panel. Any background on this? I always assumed 16:9 became popular because of videos.

I have a MacBook Pro with 3456 × 2234 (around 16:10.5) resolution and it is perfect . I don't know why people would want laptops at 16:9 at all. I can play videos just fine on this thing and the other 95% of the time it's a better resolution for doing things like coding and spreadsheets.

When it's choice between something like a 16:10 1440x900 and a 1600x900 16:9 screen I'll pick the latter every time, more resolution is more resolution. A 4K screen would give you more "space" than your MBP offers.

Re: Lenovo announces the first Arm-based ThinkPad

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Post by mjlee »

plantain wrote: post #102
tiku wrote: post #96

At what point will there come laptops that have a slot for an extra battery like an 18650 or 26650 battery that can sustain a full workday extra? That would be nice, just to carrey a small spare battery.

Every USB-C laptop has this - charge it like you would charge your phone on the go, from a powerbank.

What's the efficiency of doing this over being able to change the laptop battery? I've done it a few times for my M1 Macbook Air and feel like it can't be much better than 50%-75% but it would be nice to know.

Re: Lenovo announces the first Arm-based ThinkPad

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Post by AuthorizedCust »

throwaway984393 wrote: post #112
plantain wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Every USB-C laptop has this - charge it like you would charge your phone on the go, from a powerbank.

I would not take that wager. Just because it has a USB-C port doesn't necessarily mean it has support for anything other than basic USB device support.

Huh? How else would you charge this device?

Re: Lenovo announces the first Arm-based ThinkPad

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Post by pdenton »

sandGorgon wrote: post #70
pdenton wrote: post #35

But do they run Linux? ThinkPads were always great for Linux and I've been happy with them ever since I can afford them (6 years now).

https://getfedora.org/en/workstation/download/ Fedora 35: aarch64 DVD ISO should work. Just FYI, we run our entire production api on arm on AWS. Its pretty rock stable and mature. The stability of ARM on linux is pretty much a solved problem at this point.

Just Fedora or any aarch64 distro? I thought aarch64 meant raspberries.

Re: Lenovo announces the first Arm-based ThinkPad

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Post by hansel_der »

plantain wrote: post #102
tiku wrote: post #96

At what point will there come laptops that have a slot for an extra battery like an 18650 or 26650 battery that can sustain a full workday extra? That would be nice, just to carrey a small spare battery.

Every USB-C laptop has this - charge it like you would charge your phone on the go, from a powerbank.

HP Elitebook G3 for one is not happy with power from a phone charger, idk don't have a powerbank to test.

Re: Lenovo announces the first Arm-based ThinkPad

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Post by ihateolives »

kawsper wrote: post #95
ihateolives wrote: post #36

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It only takes maximum of 24GB RAM. Right now I'm ok with it but I'd like to have some future proofing at some point, everybody is going crazy with containers nowadays. I've been moving my work off the desktop and while I can upgrade NVMe as I please I'm stuck with memory limit.

I have 40GB ram in my T480s, but it is single-channel. I have also put a NVMe in the WWAN-port, I found out that the Transcend MTE452T (TS512GMTE452T) has the right M.2-port (B+M), and it is a compatible NVMe-drive and not a SATA-drive which some of the disks of that form factor is.

Thanks for the info, I'll have a look. Transcend is weird in a good way, over the years I have bought some hard to find config drives from them, like 512gb msata 5 or so years ago.

Re: Lenovo announces the first Arm-based ThinkPad

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Post by [deleted] »

francis-io wrote: post #63

I know nothing about ARM, but I think it's time to learn. Am I right in saying you need to compile the OS and all applications to run on ARM? If so, I bet at least one thing I use daily wont work, and I don't want to commit to a laptop like this unless I know it will be a full replacement for my Intel machine. Whats the state of this in Ubuntu?

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Re: Lenovo announces the first Arm-based ThinkPad

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Post by trelane »

pjmlp wrote: post #29
rbanffy wrote: post #22

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The M1-based Macs are faster, lighter, offer seamless compatibility, run iOS software, have better screens and better battery life than modern comparable laptops. It's also faster than this Snapdragon chip. And starts from $999. It also runs a really good Unix OS. This laptop still won't run Linux out of the box.

WSL2, as good as it gets.

Nah. Why would I run Windows when I can just run the OS that I actually want?
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