Is the thinkbook any good?
https://www.lenovo.com/ca/en/laptops/thinkbook-series/Lenovo-ThinkBook-14-G2-ITL/p/XXTBXTMI400
I donāt have anything to warrant the 4.0 either. I got this one last year actually. New egg or Amazon or someone had it as a black friday special. I picked it up for like $90? It was for my x1 but come to find out it was ahci not nvme or whatever. So itās been sitting and waiting for a t480s.
I think we need like a Thinkpad group here. Thereās a lot of us.
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Even 640 TBW for a 1 TB equates to 359 GB written per day, every day, for 5 years nonstop. Still FAR FAR FAR FAR more than Iād bet 99.5% of the people in the world will use it. I actually have a SX 8200 Pro in one of my laptops, absolutely LOVE that drive (I CURRENTLY have Adata SX8200 Pro, HP EX920, Sabrent Rocket Q, Pioneer APS-SE20G, Toshiba XG5, Silicon Power P34A80, SK Hynix BC511 NVMe drives. Have owned several more with prior laptops, so have a fair amount of experience with NVMe).
Yeah, Iāve hadā¦8 different generations of Thinkpads I think. But some generations were more than 1 model (such as T450, T450S, E450, T470, E470, A485, E480).
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I agree that 260TBW is still good (that equates to about 6% per year based on my usage pattern, or about 16years of usage), however the fact that its rating is lower than the half of its competition is not inspiring trust for me.
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It doesnāt use the Thinkpad keyboard, but more of the Ideapad keyboard, but otherwise reviews Iāve read liked it. It uses the high-end Iris XE integrated graphics on the better models, so actually is capable of playing some light games, too. I donāt know about their updating the firmware on them, which is the problem I have with their Yoga & IdeaPad lines, that they basically never release a firmware update to improve system security. But I think they look like theyād be a good machine, personally.
Eh, I guess I can see that. But even if itās 1/4 of what some of itās competitors are, if itās still 100x what Iām going to actually USE it forā¦I donāt see it as an issue. The only thing that makes me pause is having only a 3-year warranty on some drives instead of 5. As long as it has a 5-year warranty, itās probably going to far outlast my use patterns (and to be fair, so will 3-year warranties, but given theyāre generally the same price, 5-year tops 3-year).
I am running an i7-8650u with 40GB RAM. WIth the undervolting (I manage to get -100mv on the cpu and -80mv on the gpu stable, yours will likely be differentā¦silicon lottery), I manage to push all eight threads at 99%+ usage at 3.6GHz at 90c, and I have stress tested it for 30 minutes with it infrequently dropping to 3.5GHz. Without throttled.service it is nowhere near as performant.
I came from a T430, my shoulder thanked me for dropping the 8 pounds of extra laptop, battery, and accessory weight. Still love my tricked out T430 and I am keeping it as a backup, in case the T480s breaks.
Also definitely repaste the heatsink, the stock paste sucks. Currenlty I sit at 36c on idle, bumping up to mid 40ās under light/moderate load (Firefox 15 tabs, Evolution, Quod Libet, Terminal, and a Text Editor.). Before repaste it was 5c higher, without undervolting add another 5c roughly.
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And then thereās this whole can of worms, at least in the U.S.
Gotta love my home state. Privacy? Rights? Weāve got that under control. - CA government
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And the last piece to my computer build arrived today. I can now do work from home if I have to. Itās a western digital sn520 256gb ssd for my WWAN slot.
So I can have work and Windows on this and keep my Arch/EOS on the Sabrent.
My computer for the better part of the next decade is here.
1.25TB, dual boot dual SSD, Thinkpad t480s with 40GB RAM is what geek dreams are made of.
Update: My 2020 mission is 100% complete. W10, EOS plasma updated and working.
Now itās time to find out what accessories I drunk buy when this bottle of tequila is gone. Come on something good for 2021!
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So I know this question comes up āDoes x model support thisā all the time. If anyone has a T495 or T14 AMD, I can say with a definitive āyesā that it does (Iām using it in my T14, and had previously used it in my T495 before the T14 arrived. Same SN520 model, however, I personally only have a 128GB in my T14 (and itās used as my /home partition).
This might interest you https://www.amazon.com/thinkplus-Portable-Lightweight-Charger-Support/dp/B07RGTHQNW it works great. Perfect for when you are on the go.
Does this mean you gave up on wifi? Doesnāt this limit mobility?
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no WWAN is for connecting to the internet through 4g etc with a sim card
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Oh, thatās great flexibility then, being able to use that slot that way.
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Not all laptops support it 100% thoughā¦
Iāve done the same thing with my Latitude E7450
and while the drive is being recognized, I canāt use it to boot from
(unless I have grub on another drive of course)
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This was one of the reasons I wanted this particular model. And after a bunch of research itās why I got the exact western digital ssd I did with a Lenovo part number right on it.
Add @Krimkerre said, it was an open slot of I wanted a card for mobile internet like a cell phone. I still have WiFi, and no more wasted open slot in the computer.
I can boot from it! I have it set that Endeavour boots, and I can use the firmware to temporarily start the other drive on the instances I need windows.
@nadb Iāll definitely look into that charger. Looks nice and small. Thank you!
It sounds like you get a new model almost every year. Iām jealous. This is my second ānewā computer since I went to college in 2005. (The other was a$160 chromebook). Everything else I have had was a second hand purchase from like Craigslist or offer up or even just gifted to me.
It looks correct, but I wanted to double check. Is this the package you were talking about?
As @tlmiller76 said, it looks like a mix of the thinkpad and ideapad scaled up for corporate meetings.
I wouldnāt buy it since I donāt know about the keyboard, and thatās literally like 90% why I wonāt buy something that isnāt a thinkpad. ALSO, thereās no trackpoint/ mouse buttons. I donāt use the track point much, but I LOVE the mouse buttons at the bottom of the keyboard. I usually use the trackpad with my right hand and left click with my thumb so Iām always moving.
If youāre looking for a new computer from Lenovo, I highly suggest their refurbished/outlet store. Thatās where I got this t480s. Not a bad way to spend $630. . . Even with the 32gb ram stick, and both new ssdās, Iām still under $1000 with tax.
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