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I love my thinkpad, wrote up my experience with the Thinkpad T480 last year: https://maxrozen.com/replacing-my-macbook-m1-with-thinkpad-t480 https://maxrozen.c
by rozenmd 10mo ago
I love my thinkpad, wrote up my experience with the Thinkpad T480 last year:
https://maxrozen.com/replacing-my-macbook-m1-with-thinkpad-t480 https://maxrozen.com/replacing-my-macbook-m1-with-thinkpad-t...
and a quick buyers guide here:
https://maxrozen.com/getting-your-own-good-enough-laptop-for-under-500 https://maxrozen.com/getting-your-own-good-enough-laptop-for...
- Klonoar 10mo agoThe HN thread responding to your T480 article is all that's needed to understand why it's not really a replacement for a MBP: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34878240 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34878240
- rozenmd 10mo agoI never said I replaced an MBP with it, but okay, yeah, the build quality is not the same.
- 999900000999 10mo agoLenovo has fantastic recent refurbs. It's a bit of a game, but you can find some for around 400$ or less. My big beef with Macs is I need BIG ssds. If I want to get a 4TB SSD on a Macbook it starts at around 3000$. Recently I purchased a laptop with 2 SSD slots, although disappointingly only one is easy to access. I'm tempted to go to Microcenter and tell them to replace the stock SSD with a 4TB( the stock SSD is the one behind a difficult to remove heat sink), and then I'd put another 4 tb ssd. Alternatively I could just pay 800$ for a 8TB SSD, install it in a laptop that cost around 1300-1500$ and I'm only spending 2300$. On a Mac that's about 5000$. I make music and hate external drives with a passion.