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The X models are designed to be ultraportable, aka as thin and light as possible. As a result, they're not great machines for people who need lots of RAM, stora
by smacktoward 6y ago
The X models are designed to be ultraportable, aka as thin and light as possible. As a result, they're not great machines for people who need lots of RAM, storage, etc.
The P series (https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpad-p/c/thinkpadp https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpad-p/c/t...) is more the "desktop workstation replacement" line; heavier and thicker, but with more room for components. You can get those with up to 128GB of RAM.
- combixtreen 6y agoYou forgot about 15” X1E, which is a desktop replacement. It’s still light and portable but comes with higher specs. I have one with UHD screen, 32GB and 1TB. Same weight as a 15” MacBook Pro. Configured with an FHD screen, it’s lighter than MacBook.
- basch 6y agoalso the FHD screen has twice the battery life, if you want to make that trade off.
- nullobject 6y agoI just switched to the X1E after using Mac for the past 20 years. I'm running Ubuntu 20.04. It's an amazing machine: excellent build quality, screen, and variety of ports. The only thing I can complain about is the battery life, which isn't great.
- RedneckBob 6y agoYou installed cpufreaq yet? It is a life saver and a battery saver too. I run most of the time with 4 cores, turbo disabled, and capped at about 50%. Makes a huge difference in battery runtime. https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1082/cpufreq/ https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1082/cpufreq/
- jlgaddis 6y agoFWIW, PowerTOP [0] and tlp [1] used to be the "go-to" utility for this sort of thing. --- [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerTOP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerTOP [1]: https://linrunner.de/tlp/ https://linrunner.de/tlp/
- GordonS 6y agoI was hoping for the best of both worlds - something with a 14" 3K display, very light (don't care too much about thinness TBH), but with a good processor and 32GB of RAM.
- smacktoward 6y agoThe all-arounders are the T series: https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpad-t-series/c/thinkpadt https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpad-t-ser... The AMD-based T495 can be configured with up to 32GB of RAM; the Intel-based T490, up to 48GB.
- cvdub 6y agoI regret getting the WQHD (2560x1440) screen on my X1 Carbon 7th gen. Text is too small to read without scaling, and I haven't figured out how to configure consistent scaling behavior across Wayland and XWayland applications. FHD is plenty on a 14" screen.
- katmannthree 6y agoI have a T480s with a 14" FHD (1920x1080) screen and the experience isn't good either. Wayland apps work with fractional 1.25X scaling but are laggy and have odd graphical glitches. XWayland apps are just blurry.
- distances 6y agoI think 1920x1080 is the perfect native resolution for 14", without scaling. It's a bit small on first look but you're closer to laptop screen than you're to a real monitor, so that turns out just fine for me.
- ggreer 6y agoI have an X1 Carbon 7th gen with a 4k screen (3840x2160). I run it at 2x scaling on Wayland (sway) and I haven't had any issues with native Wayland apps. X apps are rendered at 1x and upscaled, making them blocky or blurry. Apparently there are some apps like Spotify that ignore scaling settings and always render at 1x, but I haven't run into them. There is a fix in progress for XWayland scaling: https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots/pull/2064 https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots/pull/2064
- notJim 6y ago13" MBP is available with 32 GB of RAM now, Lenovo needs to up their game :)
- kube-system 6y agoMy cheap 2 year old ultraportable Lenovo supports 32 gigs of ram. And it's DDR4. And they're still socketed.
- imperialdrive 6y agoLenovo has plenty of 32GB Thinkpads... nothing new.
- notJim 6y agoI meant in the ultraportable space, which smacktoward made it sound like they don't offer.
- numpad0 6y agoJust that 32GB isn’t considered “a lot” I guess. Besides DDR4 SODIMM 32GB modules exist, if 32GB is what you want you just buy it off Amazon and put it in. Don’t have to mess around with “what they offer us the privilege to be able to purchase” like with soldered RAM.
- ghostpepper 6y agoThey're ridiculously light too. I have the 7th with the 6-core i7-10710U and it weighs under 1000g (not including power adapter).
- GordonS 6y agoThat is pretty impressive. Does it have any issues with heat dissipation or/and fan noise when doing CPU intensive work? My HP Zbook is pretty heavy and chunky, but still gets pretty hot and can be annoyingly noisy (thanks Mcafee...).
- ghostpepper 6y agoIt does get hot, and I'll admit I don't generally use it for sustained workloads, but I've never noticed the fans getting loud. This is just anecdotal but it seems like most of the heat is generated near the screen, above the keyboard, where you don't have as much contact with the machine.