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I made the mistake of buying a T14s to replace an aging POS Xiaomi (and get off the world of "switchable graphics" forever) The colour accuracy on the screen g
by IntelMiner 6y ago
I made the mistake of buying a T14s to replace an aging POS Xiaomi (and get off the world of "switchable graphics" forever)
The colour accuracy on the screen given was something like 37%. When I enabled any sort of colour shifting program, it would go completely sideways. Comparing it to a $300 (AUD) Oppo cell phone https://i.imgur.com/Rnh6leC.jpg https://i.imgur.com/Rnh6leC.jpg
/r/AMDLaptops has a surprisingly comprehensive guide of what is out there at what price points and markets
After Lenovo refused to replace the panel with the only part their own forums stated was the "good" SKU, I purchased the only other seemingly decent looking Ryzen 4000 laptop. The MSI Modern 14
I think the best description I can give of the laptop is "I like it but"
It has a nice screen, the keyboard is comfortable (and doesn't have an annoying layout like the Thinkpad with the FN/Ctrl keys)
But the tradeoffs for it are
- No USB-C charging. The USB-C port doesn't support power delivery (and is only 5Gbps, not 10Gbps)
- The SSD is utter garbage. 480 gig on a single NAND flash chip. I was having Linux stall on writing PNG icon files to the chip for 10~ seconds at a time while installing XFCE4!
- USB 2.0 in 2020 shouldn't be a thing on an "Ultrabook" laptop
- The Ryzen model only has a 6 thread(?) CPU, and it does get a bit toasty with the "meh" cooling fan in the laptop
- m_mueller 6y agoI find Lenovo's QA and support absolutely atrocious. My organization bought a ton of ThinkPad X1 Yogas - quite expensive devices. Turns out that everyone's TouchPad would stop working properly (intermittent 2 second lags every couple of seconds) when waking up from a screen-off in battery mode. Workaround is closing the lid to bring it into standby, open it and sign in again. Thousands of users reporting the same thing for various models over the last 2.5 years, absolutely no response from Lenovo. Do only Apple users expect their stuff to actually work and hold them to that standard?