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So Intel... Lost their lead in consumer desktop CPUs and said ‘oh we have mobile and server’ But now AMD prove that Intel’s lead in mobile has been squandered. And then the largest buyers of server grade stuff are cloud vendors who are waiting for ARM to come of age.
It is a pity that a similarly specced ThinkPad would be at least a thousand dollars more expensive.
Hmm, Lenovo routinely has deep discounts on Thinkpads. Either public coupons, EPP, etc. I just bought a CTO T14 w/4750u, 16GB+0, 400nit screen for ~$830 + tax, less than the price of the Slim 7.
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250 to 500 nits. That is not very bright and this is the potential problem for me.
250 is not bright, but 500 sure is.
How does it work with linux? My colleague got last year's x395 with the AMD 3000 series. It only lasts 3.5 hours battery with web browsing and moderate coding, whereas it's supposed to last ~7 hours real-world on windows.
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After spending about six years with a Macbook with a retina display, going to even 1080p feels like a step back.
I have both a 15" MacBook Pro (2018 model) and a Lenovo Thinkpad Carbon X1 open in front of me right now. I have 20/20 vision and it really is not striking me as that much better. I spend quite a bit of my day in a terminal and the remainder looking at the web, so font rendering definitely matters. Even with Linux's abysmal font-rendering, the mac really doesn't feel like it has the edge.
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Oh brilliant. Thanks for this. This is coming soon to India. Do you run Linux on this ? How's the performance. Would love it if you can test with a liveusb of fedora
I have the previous model of the S540 with i7. Ubuntu, Pop_OS and Arch all work fine on it. I don't see why the Ryzen model wouldn't either.
this is where things break
How does it work with linux? My colleague got last year's x395 with the AMD 3000 series. It only lasts 3.5 hours battery with web browsing and moderate coding, whereas it's supposed to last ~7 hours real-world on windows.
I can’t speak for the new series, but I have a couple of Ryzen 3400G and I’m not sure if I got the iGPU working and being utilized 100% properly yet. The drivers are a huge mess of confusion (what goes into user space vs kernel? What do you really need? What even goes into host OS vs containers if you run Docker? What if anything can you actually get out of it without installing the proprietary non-free closed-source…
So Intel... Lost their lead in consumer desktop CPUs and said ‘oh we have mobile and server’ But now AMD prove that Intel’s lead in mobile has been squandered. And then the largest buyers of server grade stuff are cloud vendors who are waiting for ARM to come of age.
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I can’t speak for the new series, but I have a couple of Ryzen 3400G and I’m not sure if I got the iGPU working and being utilized 100% properly yet. The drivers are a huge mess of confusion (what goes into user space vs kernel? What do you really need? What even goes into host OS vs containers if you run Docker? What if anything can you actually get out of it without installing the proprietary non-free closed-source…
I'm not sure what you are talking about. I installed Arch Linux last week on a new machine and all I had to do was pacman -Sy mesa and that's it. Actually, that's a lie. I installed a DE which installed mesa as a dependency automatically.
Which AGESA version are you on? Does hardware accelerated decode and encode work as expected?
For people interested in ultrabooks with Ryzen 4800U processors, there is also another model, which for some reason doesn't get mentioned much, which is Lenovo S540 13ARE. It has a 13.3", QHD, 16:10 screen. I bought this laptop after buying a Lenovo Ideapad/Yoga Slim 7 and returning it (because of some QA issues and 14" was a bit too big for me after using XPS 13 for a long time). I made a small review of the laptop…
Wow. I'd give anything to be able to get this with a decent screen. I edit a lot of photos, and Adobe: 73% P3: 72% simply isn't acceptable in 2020...
That said, not everyone need color accuracy. It probably works just fine for my usage.