Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Lenovo ThinkPad T14s G4 review: Business laptop is better with AMD Zen4

notebookcheck.net

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

51–60 of 98 posts

Re: Lenovo ThinkPad T14s G4 review: Business laptop is better with AMD Zen4

#51

Post by ndiddy »

0xbadcafebee wrote: post #32
ndiddy wrote: post #24

Frustrating that the laptop has 8 GB of RAM soldered, it means that no matter how much RAM you put in it, you'll only get 16 GB in dual channel.

According to the spec sheet, they come in models up to 32GB soldered: https://psref.lenovo.com/syspool/Sys/PDF/ThinkPad/ThinkPad_T...

I'm sorry, I had the T14 up on Lenovo's site, not the T14s. It looks like the T14s has no RAM sockets, and they only sell it with 16 GB of soldered RAM (unless there's a way to special order it or something). https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpadt/th...

Re: Lenovo ThinkPad T14s G4 review: Business laptop is better with AMD Zen4

#52

Post by dmbche »

tivert wrote: post #28
dmbche wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How come? Most video being 16:9 means you useball of the screen you have, 16:10 adds bars on one side doesn't it?

> How come? Most video being 16:9 means you useball of the screen you have, 16:10 adds bars on one side doesn't it? Do you use your laptop to work, or just watch video all the time? Because if you actually do work, 16:10 or 3:2 is much better.

I'm not writing code, but I edit video and write text on a 16:9 and have never thought that the screen format had anything to do with anything else than video crops.

What do you get out of 16:10 for "working"?

Re: Lenovo ThinkPad T14s G4 review: Business laptop is better with AMD Zen4

#53

Post by bkovacev »

ggpsv wrote: post #37
bkovacev wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have two framework laptops with Intel CPU. I unfortunately would not recommend framework with Intel - they can't handle any development workload through docker without the risk of launching to the moon from the fans spinning. I hope that AMD ones are better.

As a counterpoint, I've had a 12-gen Framework (i7, 32GB RAM) for almost a year and half now. I use Docker on a daily basis (using Windows and WSL2) and it works fine for my development workloads. Like other Intel laptops I've had, the fans do come on occasionally but not very often. I do have some qualms about this laptop but I'm happy with it and the tradeoffs I chose.

That's actually quite interesting - same configuration with i7 1280p and on windows and wsl2! Blah, I wish I knew what you were doing differently. The moment that Chrome, Slack, Docker and PyCharm are up and running, it gets quite loud :(

Re: Lenovo ThinkPad T14s G4 review: Business laptop is better with AMD Zen4

#54

Post by regularfry »

tivert wrote: post #28
dmbche wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How come? Most video being 16:9 means you useball of the screen you have, 16:10 adds bars on one side doesn't it?

> How come? Most video being 16:9 means you useball of the screen you have, 16:10 adds bars on one side doesn't it? Do you use your laptop to work, or just watch video all the time? Because if you actually do work, 16:10 or 3:2 is much better.

4:3 is the one true aspect ratio.

Yes, I am old.

Re: Lenovo ThinkPad T14s G4 review: Business laptop is better with AMD Zen4

#55

Post by mschaef »

_a_a_a_ wrote: post #5

> but the device failed to win us over in terms of multi-core performance If a dev machine I'd get it, but biz users are email and a few small spreadsheets. I don't get why biz users need multicore anything.

> biz users are email and a few small spreadsheets. I don't get why biz users need multicore anything.

That's a fairly narrow view of what a business user might do. The spreadsheets aren't necessarily small, there's usually a messaging tool or two open, and several web browsers open to line of business apps, etc. (This is before even considering OS overhead and the like.)

Re: Lenovo ThinkPad T14s G4 review: Business laptop is better with AMD Zen4

#56

Post by terminous »

_a_a_a_ wrote: post #5

> but the device failed to win us over in terms of multi-core performance If a dev machine I'd get it, but biz users are email and a few small spreadsheets. I don't get why biz users need multicore anything.

> biz users are email and a few small spreadsheets. I don't get why biz users need multicore anything.

Have you opened a Chrome or Electron app recently? And many biz users need to run those apps while on Zoom with a virtual background for the camera.

Based on your logic, all most biz users really need for email and spreadsheets can be done using Lotus Notes / 1-2-3 on a single-core IBM 5150 with 5 MHZ and 256KB of memory.

Re: Lenovo ThinkPad T14s G4 review: Business laptop is better with AMD Zen4

#59

Post by guappa »

seego wrote: post #19
Aardwolf wrote: post #14

Does anyone know if it's possible to buy thinkpads with a US keyboard layout in Europe? Any thinkpad with a layout that's not the non-qwerty local variant of my country takes more than 6 weeks to deliver, and that is to get UK layout, not the US layout with different enter key, which I can't even find available at all

Yes - you want their "EU" layout. It's "US" with a € sign.

US keyboards have 1 key less, a bigger left shift key and a 1 row enter key. It's not simply a matter of putting the right stickers on them.
Post reply on HN