Lenovo ThinkPad T14s G4 review: Business laptop is better with AMD Zen4
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Re: Lenovo ThinkPad T14s G4 review: Business laptop is better with AMD Zen4
#2I feel like the MacBook is the elephant in the room here
Re: Lenovo ThinkPad T14s G4 review: Business laptop is better with AMD Zen4
#3Happy to see the refresh. These APU systems are great.
The alarmingly priced usb-c dock works. Three monitors around laptop, no problem. The LTE modem works out of the box on windows and works with some arguing on Linux (I built a driver from GitHub, but that's probably improved since).
An not-obvious benefit of the Lenovo ones is they're on the approved list for AMD's employees, so broken stuff is pretty immediately apparent to lots of people with internal paths for reporting bugs to Lenovo.
Re: Lenovo ThinkPad T14s G4 review: Business laptop is better with AMD Zen4
#4Framework should be a listed contender here. Same CPU but better maintainability.
Re: Lenovo ThinkPad T14s G4 review: Business laptop is better with AMD Zen4
#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.
Re: Lenovo ThinkPad T14s G4 review: Business laptop is better with AMD Zen4
#6Happy to see the refresh. These APU systems are great. The alarmingly priced usb-c dock works. Three monitors around laptop, no problem. The LTE modem works out of the box on windows and works with some arguing on Linux (I built a driver from GitHub, but that's probably improved since). An not-obvious benefit of the Lenovo ones is they're on the approved list for AMD's employees, so broken stuff is pretty immediately…
I love my Lenovo dock. Still itches my design scratch and is super reliable. Least reliable part is just the USB c cables as usual
Re: Lenovo ThinkPad T14s G4 review: Business laptop is better with AMD Zen4
#7> 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.
Honestly the 8core ~15W things are alright for dev work. It seems to be game for giving all the power budget to one core. Runs a badly configured Emacs with misc c++ parsing nonsense without trouble, and I build llvm on one every few months without too much irritation.
Re: Lenovo ThinkPad T14s G4 review: Business laptop is better with AMD Zen4
#8I feel like the MacBook is the elephant in the room here
MacBook doesn't have an LTE modem.
Re: Lenovo ThinkPad T14s G4 review: Business laptop is better with AMD Zen4
#9Happy to see the refresh. These APU systems are great. The alarmingly priced usb-c dock works. Three monitors around laptop, no problem. The LTE modem works out of the box on windows and works with some arguing on Linux (I built a driver from GitHub, but that's probably improved since). An not-obvious benefit of the Lenovo ones is they're on the approved list for AMD's employees, so broken stuff is pretty immediately…
I love my Lenovo dock. Still itches my design scratch and is super reliable. Least reliable part is just the USB c cables as usual
I don't think I'd have bought one out of my own money. It was something like $500, rather close to the cost of a standalone computer. But it's now cable tied to the back of a monitor and the single usb cable to the laptop for power and everything else is aesthetically glorious.
Re: Lenovo ThinkPad T14s G4 review: Business laptop is better with AMD Zen4
#10Glad to see it has a 16:10 screen. 16:9 is a curse.