That’s a great point, and I’d actually love to do that one of these days. Knowing me I’d wanna figure out how to scavenge as many parts as possible from my old machines.
Avoid U processors like the plague. I recently purchased one for my father (10th Gen i7 U) and the thing is slow as hell and throttles like crazy.
A lot of that is down to the laptop itself and how good its cooling system is - poor cooling is a pretty common feature on slim laptops.
Also, it’s possible that the settings can be tweaked:
I’ve tried that approach, and even sold myself on that a few times (
) but it hasn’t worked out too often! By the time I’m looking for upgrades, usually the socket has changed - or memory format has changed - or even the method for hooking up hard drives has changed.
At least the monitors tend to live on another day - and sometimes the machines have survived as ‘servers’ - but even that is unneeded now as large hard drives are trivial to add now, and relatively cheap. Video cards might have made a transition, but I rarely have one (since 2000) as integrated graphics have usually sufficed.
Just buy that badass PSU the first time and you can use it for years to come 
As long as there’s no new connector needed
I ditched plan of testing Manjaro and decided to install Arch KDE on my new Yoga Slim 7 Ryzen 4800u laptop.
So far the results are very good.
- No problem for suspend to RAM.
- No problem to Audio.
- No problem to Bluetooth devices.
- External monitor works.
- Estimated battery life to be 7-8 hours (or longer) for my use pattern.
- I haven’t got IR works for howdy.
A better screenshot:
How do you like this laptop? Is it a 2 in 1?
No. It’s just normal slim laptop.
Hi @bob418,
Thanks for sharing! That looks gorgeous!
I am more and more leaning towards getting one of the same machines from my local “brick and mortar” computer shop. However the Tuxedo machines that I posted about above are very compelling contenders as well. But for the sake of convenience, if something is or going to be wrong with the product, I guess I stick with these people here who are very service-minded and nice. The model should be back in stock next week. So let’s see.
They only show the Slim 7 available with the 4700U here and 8 GB memory. Only one model. 
4700u should be fine. But 8GB RAM… 
Ya that’s the problem and soldered in. So i can get an HP with the 4700U and 512 nvme SSD and 16 GB memory with another slot. So that would be good and it is $1299.00+tax.
I’m too early to conclude “No problem for suspend to RAM”. I closed lid over night, then this morning I saw the battery was almost empty (45% gone for 7 hours). So apparently it didn’t really sleep. 
I’ve found solution to the sleep problem.
Hi @all,
Thank you for your thoughts, ideas and recommendations. I got the Lenovo machine delivered last evening. I will be putting one flavour of EOS on it and see how things work.
Thanks again!
One from OP?
Well congrats mr. Monster RAM… 
YES!!
I hope that everything will just work on it OTB. Let’s see! I’ll have a little more time tomorrow to dedicate to it.