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- Jan 28, 2018
Well this thing costed about 130 bucks and for 130 bucks this is a good computer, alone the screen makes it worth it really. If I paid 1400 what it apparently costed at some point I'd be mad though. If I was a starving (non-AI) artist, I would buy something like this with it's excellent wacom tablet built in over the overpriced stuff wacom itself sells anyday too. The wacoms' tablets' screens aren't even this nice which for an artists tool, ist just mind-boggling.
Compared to the Fujitsu you immediately are hit with the difference in sheer build quality though. It's not like it's poorly built - Besides the keyboard which is a joke in bad taste - it is really just not that nice for it's original price. Generally the unit is okay-built quality wise, magnesium/plastic compound case - I also like how the metal stand folds down, it's much more stable that way. |_ or even /_ is just inherently more stable than |\. The downside is that it's not as elegant, slides and with that scratches more easy, also theoretically the hinges could break easier but this shouldn't be a problem with this unit. Apparently lenovo changed to |\ with 3rd gen though. It was probably mostly an aesthetic choice to look more like the Microsoft Surface IMHO. ( |_ also has the advantage to work on rather uneven surfaces like a blanket or your legs)
There's absolutely no excuse to not set thermal limits in the firmware for the processor and it just oozes chinese "numba wan benchmark" shitty practices and general lack of care and QA you usually see from chink companies. Thankfully it can be remedied in the OS but I wonder how many people are capable of it? It's even less understandable because their thermal solution is actually decent enough to deliver good speeds without the SoC fucking overheating. By default, the case gets unpleasant to the touch. With my settings, it gets slightly warm around the SoC under stress testing. This is sold as also usable as handheld tablet. You do the math.
It's also really easy to take apart, contrary to the Fujitsu (which has plastic hinges a bit too small for comfort) and HP unit (just terrible) you also have less of a feeling you can break this. The innards are not nearly as clean and elegant though, the Fujitsu is a work of art here. I noticed with my HHKB too that these Japanese really love their compartments and screws.
The unit I got was fairly beaten up. I fixed a deep scratch in the frame by filling it with Sugru, then went over it with with black touch-up paint (traffic black, RAL 9011?). You have to know there was a scratch to find it now. I wanna cover the foot in plasti dip to make it more scratch resistant and also less slide-y. If I still feel like tinkering I might try buffing out the case, it should be easy to work with. This is more just for fun and because I like tinkering like this, it's generally not really worth the effort probably.
My man, if you want a tiny computer for your home to do PC things and don't want to spend a lot of money, complete with monitor you can do that for 200-300$ (and I'm being generous here, you can catch a small Esprimo with 7400T at around ~100$ if you shop a little) and have a decent machine that'll probably last you many years at this point. It'll even be decent enough to stream games from more powerful computers. (I streamed games from my desktop to both the Lenovo and Fujitsu without a hitch, although the Lenovo was better at it) It makes sense for the big corps to diversify their products into "office" and "enthusiast" levels but at this rate even that won't keep the profits up. My guess is we'll see hardware subscriptions and unlockable features in hardware soon, like in cars. Also, oh so much planned obsolecence it'll make Apple blush. The used computer market will get a lot more relevance then.
Apple, anything beyond Vulkan 1.0 is going to be like flying to Mars.
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