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Got it home without getting stabbed, the battery does not work - as expected. It came with Windows XP. I couldn't help but chuckle upon seeing the disk reporting 229 GB free out of 232. Modern windows took up at least 20GB last time I checked lol.
I wanted to go old school and install the new OS from a DVD but I found out that the ones I had have bronzed, flash disk is fine too I guess...
 
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Likely going to ditch my X395 for a new X13 Gen5 within the next couple months. 8GB of RAM just ain't cutting it anymore and the display panel is starting to get annoyingly dim. I rode that son of a bitch hard for five years though, and I'll always have a special place in my heart for it.

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Recently got a T14 G1 on the cheap with maxed out specs with a Ryzen 7. Heard that Intel likes to drain battery life fast.
Has been upgraded to 32GB DDR4 3200 and 1TB storage. Battery still surprisingly holds a decent charge but the screen is the touchscreen variant with crappy brightness. Will be looking to replace with the low powered 400-nit version, I'm happy with what I got for now.
 
My work just got new thinkpad P14s, 64GB ram. fuckin windows 11 is going to blow this poor thing up. thing overheats like crazy. my old T470 with linux can run 3 times as many processes with less ram and not get nearly as hot.
 
CompaqOperator said:
My work just got new thinkpad P14s, 64GB ram. fuckin windows 11 is going to blow this poor thing up. thing overheats like crazy. my old T470 with linux can run 3 times as many processes with less ram and not get nearly as hot.
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I recently updated mine to Windows 11 and it's running pretty fast and smooth, the performance is exactly what I had before with Windows 10. I guess that's a good thing.
 
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CompaqOperator said:
My work just got new thinkpad P14s, 64GB ram. fuckin windows 11 is going to blow this poor thing up. thing overheats like crazy. my old T470 with linux can run 3 times as many processes with less ram and not get nearly as hot.
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I don't think Windows 11 is at fault here. Cramming high performance, high TDP components into a thin 14 inch laptop is.
For comparison, your old T470 was thicker and used a lower TDP CPU, so it could run Windows 11 with a shitton of processes and still wouldn't get nearly as hot.
 
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ForgedBlades said:
Likely going to ditch my X395 for a new X13 Gen5 within the next couple months. 8GB of RAM just ain't cutting it anymore and the display panel is starting to get annoyingly dim. I rode that son of a bitch hard for five years though, and I'll always have a special place in my heart for it.

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I was waiting on the new generation of the X13 to be released, but Lenovo is running some great deals on the previous generation X1 Carbon and I was able to get a highly spec'd model for $1,700. I hope I don't regret it, but I'm guessing that a similarly spec'd new gen X13 would have been $800 or $900ish more given the builds I was putting together earlier in the year. Plus there's the whole tariffs thing, so it might have been even more than that. Looking forward to hopefully riding this new one as long as I did my current one.
 
What is the best laptop to buy other than ThinkPad? When you try to compile shit on laptops of win7-8 era and older they just fart and die so I need something more on a heavy-duty side, but I also absolutely HATE modern keyboards which all newer ThinkPad models have. Is there at least 1 company in the whole world that doesn't try to copy flat macbook keyboard?
 
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What is the best laptop to buy other than ThinkPad? When you try to compile shit on laptops of win7-8 era and older they just fart and die so I need something more on a heavy-duty side, but I also absolutely HATE modern keyboards which all newer ThinkPad models have. Is there at least 1 company in the whole world that doesn't try to copy flat macbook keyboard?
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You don't have many keyboard options to choose from sadly, all manufacturer sem to have moved to the isle type keys that Apple popularized. As for laptops of the era that are somewhat sturdy, I can vouch for the older HP Zbooks like the G2 the G3, most of their parts are user replaceable and upgradeable, video card included for non Intel graphics ones, and the 17" models have 4 slots of ram and 3 for storage (2 SATA and a mvme). The bad news are that they do have the modern keyboard design you don't like
 
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I rather like my L14 Gen 2 AMD, especially as a hand-me-down. The USB-C controller on the motherboard died two months before the warranty expired, but I was able to troubleshoot to their satisfaction, and they sent a guy out with a new motherboard and a screwdriver. He had been and gone inside of 20 minutes. Very happy with the service.

I sing praises for Apple’s customer service, especially when I live less than 10 minutes away from an Apple Store, but you can’t beat in-home warranty.
 
Felt cute, got a $200 T14 gen 2 with a 5650 Pro because it had a shitty broken 45% panel in it and I can get the model’s 4K LCD cable and just attach my T480’s overkill 100% RGB deep color panel. Skipping gens 3 and 4 like the turbo AIDS they are though, fuck you and your soldered RAM configs Lenovo, it’s not a M series Macbook it’s a fucking Thinkpad.
 
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I have been daily driving a used P50 for the past 3 years.
The hardware is in perfect condition.
It survived some bumps normal laptops would have not.
The procie is good enough that I can comfortably run Gentoo.
As far as I know, stuff is not soldered on (yet to have a reason to take it apart).
It might not be one of the good old ones, but I do love it.

Also, the nipple. The nipple is the best.
 
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