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ThnikPads have propably the best keyboards around, definitly the best laptop keyboards I ever used.
You either have never tried a ThinkPad prior to the W530 (i.e. more than 10 years ago, when they significantly changed the keyboard for the first time) or you haven't used one of the "next-gen" models with "next-gen" keyboards that they have been building ever since and that get worse with every iteration.
>The ThinkPad 13s will start at $1,099 This $1099 config better have 16GB Memory and 512GB by default. Otherwise it is a machine that cost about the same as MacBook Air M2, with lower Display Res, slower CPU and GPU and No Touch ID. This is perhaps for the first time in history Apple has a better "spec" machine for the same price. With the scale of iPhone and iPad, Apple is now at a point where the whole PC industry…
4:3, please.
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I'm pretty sure it can take 40GB RAM, see e.g. here: https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/bb1xwm/t480s_upgr... I also have 64GB on my work T480 (non-s) despite "max" being 32GB. The Lenovo-reported max RAM specs often do not take into account newer larger memory modules released after the laptop (or at least I believe this is the reason for the discrepancy).
There seems to be some discrepancies in this area, this is the CPU in my T480s (with 40GB RAM): https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/124967/... Even Intel says it can maximally have 32 GB of RAM.
It may require some ACPI trickery, but it absolutely is doable. If the firmware guys are super lazy it may just work without ACPI trickery.
Check out an example here: https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2019/04/adventures-of-putt...
I think I'll always associate anything that runs on Qualcomm (thought it's not just them) as temporary due to its short lifespan and lack of vendor support based on my experience of buying Android phones, tablets and media devices. I think this is already true of some (all?) Chromebooks that actually have expiration dates. This is probably not a fair comparison since it's a laptop and windows-based, but it would take…
I stopped buying Qualcomm smartphones years ago. There's no way I'd by a laptop with one of their chips. What an unfortunate choice by Lenovo.
I think even the Pinephones with their Allwinners and Rockchips aren't perfect, with both models being based on I believe older SoCs (although the Rockchip in the Pro has been modified, afaik).
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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.
If you are authoring 16:9 content, something like 16:10 allows for some UI controls to be displayed along with 16:9 video at native resolution during previews. When programming, more space is better. So for creators, 16:10 is unambiguously better.
16:10 in a vacuum is a useless metric. Real world stuff like actual resolution, screen dimensions, font sizes, scaling, etc. only make 16:10 ambiguously better.
The last time I saw this tested, it was more likely to fail than succeed, but it's been a while.
Why are they doing this? Windows RT laptops flopped almost a decade ago due to the lack of software, and the landscape hasn't changed all that much AFAIK.
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I stopped buying Qualcomm smartphones years ago. There's no way I'd by a laptop with one of their chips. What an unfortunate choice by Lenovo.
>What an unfortunate choice by Lenovo. Well they didn't have much choice here. MediaTek, Samsung, and the rest are equally bad. The ARM SoC market is flooded with chips designed to have the shortest SW support lifespan possible. Maybe Nvidia can get its shit together and put out a competitive ARM chip.
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But Apple's aren't? I agree with you but they are pricing it relative to what they can get away with and Apple set the starting point for ARM based laptops.
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.
That's misleading - these Macs don't run Linux well at all. I would love to see Linux fully and properly supported on these great new chips, but let's not pretend that is already the case.
Why are they doing this? Windows RT laptops flopped almost a decade ago due to the lack of software, and the landscape hasn't changed all that much AFAIK.
I'm quite certain it has. I believe Windows on ARM now ships with x86 emulation, allowing it to run any program (albeit more slowly). I'm not sure about the state of WSL on ARM, but Linux on ARM in general is a nearly indistinguishable experience from Linux on x86, with the exception of proprietary software which is for the most part relatively rare on that platform.
The last time I saw this tested, it was more likely to fail than work for any particular bit of modern 64 bit Windows software.