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I'm all for pushing back on the idea that just because it's "old", that it's useless and needs to be replaced. Lots of old machines are still perfectly good at
by kylec 4y ago
I'm all for pushing back on the idea that just because it's "old", that it's useless and needs to be replaced. Lots of old machines are still perfectly good at a lot of stuff, and can be had and upgraded for cheap, which is awesome!
However, there's no way to slice going from a M1 MacBook Air to a ThinkPad T480 as anything but a downgrade. The screen is worse, the CPU is worse, the battery is MUCH worse, it's thicker, heavier, the list goes on. If the author of the post is happier with his new laptop, that's great, but this isn't really a path it makes sense for anyone else go follow him down.
- diffeomorphism 4y agoHeavier? A 14 inch macbook pro is 1.6kg. The t480 is 1.3kg and the non-s weighs the same as the macbook. So what are you talking about?
- phrz 4y agoThe T480 with a battery is 1.6kg, or 1.8kg on the extended pack. https://psref.lenovo.com/syspool/Sys/PDF/ThinkPad/ThinkPad_T480/ThinkPad_T480_Spec.PDF https://psref.lenovo.com/syspool/Sys/PDF/ThinkPad/ThinkPad_T...
- diffeomorphism 4y agoYes, that is why I wrote "same as macbook". And a T480s is 1.32kg https://psref.lenovo.com/syspool/Sys/PDF/ThinkPad/ThinkPad_T480s/ThinkPad_T480s_Spec.PDF https://psref.lenovo.com/syspool/Sys/PDF/ThinkPad/ThinkPad_T...
- kylec 4y agoThe M1 MacBook Air is 1.29kg
- diffeomorphism 4y agoThen you would be comparing with the X models of the same size, which start at 0.9kg https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-ThinkPad-X1-Nano-Laptop-Review-Less-than-1-kg-for-the-Business-Subnotebook-with-LTE.517858.0.html https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-ThinkPad-X1-Nano-Laptop...
- kylec 4y agoI’m comparing the two laptops the person mention in the article, the M1 MacBook Air and the ThinkPad T480
- diffeomorphism 4y agoAnd I am saying the author obviously does not care, but if you do care then the macs are the heavier ones or same (e.g. t480s weighs as much as the air despite being 14 inch). Rule of thumb: non-apple weighs about 70% of apple, e.g. X1 Nano vs air or X1 vs pro.
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