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This is really cool information. My current laptop is a €3.000 Lenovo X1, which I'm not particularly impressed by. I was impressed by my 440s which lasted 5 y
by 0xfaded 6y ago
This is really cool information.
My current laptop is a €3.000 Lenovo X1, which I'm not particularly impressed by.
I was impressed by my 440s which lasted 5 years though.
Where would you suggest I go for my next laptop?
- baybal2 6y agoX1 has a 15w ULP CPU. Is it the performance that doesn't satisfy you? If so, the 45W Ryzen should indeed blow it out of water. I cannot find any new machine on the market with the OLED screen X1 has though.
- 0xfaded 6y agoSorry, it's an X1 extreme with a i7-9850H, also 45W. Compute capability wise, I'm quite happy. I've been disappointed with build quality compared to the older 440s. The nvidia prime setup with a shared frame buffer also makes the external display ports more or less useless under linux. I feel like I've paid a high lenovo premium for a more-or-less average notebook. If all branded laptops are using the same platform, I'm wondering if there's a way to avoid paying that premium.
- baybal2 6y agoWell, I myself have not seen any notebook as of late that satisfies my standards on build quality too. I myself long time dreamed to build my own, fully custom, factory quality notebook, and possibly spin a small business around that. Dell XPS has set a new high in laptop quality after a decade of boring, rebranded OEM designs, and Taiwanese cookie cutter engineering, but it is still not reaching the level of Japanese notebook brands before 2008. I could've vouched for Panasonic, but they don't have 45W models. And despite their still excellent quality, they are not aiming at the power user demographics, like programmers.