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It's funny that you wrote about Thinkpads, for example currently Thinkpad X1 Carbon (5 gen) is the best ultrabook on the market (including macbooks pro, yes now
by vladimir-y 10y ago
It's funny that you wrote about Thinkpads, for example currently Thinkpad X1 Carbon (5 gen) is the best ultrabook on the market (including macbooks pro, yes nowadays macbooks pro are ultrabooks).
- solatic 10y agoI don't think System76 would be wise to get into the Ultrabook market from the get-go because of the much tighter thermal/power requirements. If you're going to get into the laptop market with a focus on maintainability, your competition is the T470, not Ultrabooks in general or the Thinkpad X1 Carbon in particular, which, as your Reddit link pointed out, has a downside in that the memory is soldered to the motherboard.
- vladimir-y 10y agoT470 is also an ultrabook as it comes only with ULV CPUs, but it provides a certain level of upgradeability. Soldered memory is not a real downside if 16GB is enough to run all needed tasks, as it helps to make laptop more lightweight and portable (1.144 kg !! and in the same time Carbon has a decent set of ports). So Lenovo provides a good choice for the folks that need to maintain something - T470 and for the users that do not do any hardware upgrading - X1 Carbon (gen5).
- DaiPlusPlus 10y ago"best" is subjective - it doesn't have a "click anywhere" touchpad (it's still a mechanical hinge-based design), there's no 2x display option, battery life still doesn't come close, and so on...
- vladimir-y 10y ago> battery life still doesn't come close Сlose to what? FYI https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-ThinkPad-X1-Carbon-2017-Core-i7-Full-HD-Laptop-Review.207160.0.html https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-ThinkPad-X1-Carbon-2017... Among other things pay attention to the weight - 1.144 kg and don't forget ThinkPad's still have the best keyboard ever. A recent ultrabook selecting topic https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/66ad57/why_i_went_for_the_x1_carbon_2017_vs_mbp2016_t470/ https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/66ad57/why_i_went...
- sidegrid 10y agoClose to macbooks...
- khedoros1 10y agoSubjective indeed :-) > it doesn't have a "click anywhere" touchpad (it's still a mechanical hinge-based design) Looking at the pictures, I'm more interested in the physical mouse buttons and trackpoint. I miss the buttons I had on my last computer.
- brianwawok 10y agoDoes Thinkpad X1 Carbon 5th work well with Linux? Linux is pushing me towards the XPS 13 Also looks like the X1 is capped at 8GB ram? 16 GB is a minimum, and you can easily get on an XPS 13.
- rhizome 10y agoDoesn't the XPS13 only go to 16GB? My understanding is that you need DDR4 to get 32GB RAM in a laptop.
- FireBeyond 10y agoAs an owner of the 13 and the 15, yes. The 13 has a ULV i7 with <=16GB. But the 15 has a full i7 and goes to 32.
- brianwawok 10y ago16 is OK I think for a ultrabook. My goal is to have a 16 GB ultrabook for when away from my desk, and a 64 GB workstation when at my desk. I always try to find the beefy laptop to replace both, but I am never that happy in either place. Too heavy for the road, too slow for the desk. Been trying for like 10 years, and sad every time at the laptop I end up with. * In theory the CPU in the XPS-13 supports 32 GB says Intel, but I have never seen a true Ultrabook with 32 GB. Which is a bit sad of course...
- jlgaddis 9y agoI have had 32 GB in my (i7) W530 since I got it (about four years ago) and I'm almost positive it's not DDR4, although I'd have to check to be certain.
- rhizome 9y agoInteresting, it is 32GB of DDR3. That is the only one I know of so far, so I guess it may be time to start comparing chipsets.
- cacarr 10y agoI would be surprised if it's capped at 8GB RAM. My 4th gen X1 Carbon has 16GB.