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I recently made the switch from a macbook pro to a windows machine for personal use. My work machine is a 15 macbook pro with touchbar and I loathe that machine
by me551ah 8y ago
I recently made the switch from a macbook pro to a windows machine for personal use. My work machine is a 15 macbook pro with touchbar and I loathe that machine. It has no usb ports ( only type c) so plugging in my DAC and other peripherals is a pain. The keyboard feels like somebody has pasted keys on the chassis and I really miss the function keys. Apple also did away with the shiny logo at the back.
I recently bought a lenovo machine for personal use and I love it.
- It's light at 1.6 kgs
- Upgradable RAM which i upgraded to 16GB
- The keyboard has travel and is brilliant.
- HDD + Intel Optane - Intel Optane is a caching layer which sits in front of a traditional HDD. So you get SSD level performance from a normal HDD. It also means that I can install Win+Linux+VS+Android Studio+Ableton+Games on it and still have 500+GB to spare. Also it's an NVME module, so i can swap it with an SSD anyday.
- Can play PUBG and Overwatch and proper games on it.
- 8520U CPU, which has 4 cores and 8 threads.
- Windows + WSL ( Arch Linux ) + Dual Boot(Arch Linux). WSL Is brilliant because it allows me to run a copy of Arch inside of windows without virtualization. pacman is a much better package manager than brew.
- k_vi 8y agoPacman is better than brew?
- s_kilk 8y agoYes
- chappi42 8y agoWhich Lenovo model did you buy?
- mayniac 8y agoI got one with similar specs. Yoga 730-15ikb. i7 4c/8t, 16GB DDR4, and a Nvidia 1050TI. I've only had it for a week so can't say much but so far, definitely worth it. And £1k less than a MacBook with worse specs.