Thanks 
I also wanted a ThinkPad initially, and so asked my dad for an increase in budget. At the end, I went with Dell, because of the after sales services. Good to see I made a decent choice.
Coming to my main question of interest, what WM/DE are you running in the screenshot? It looks very good 
Edit: I read the neofetch output. Its Cinnamon.
I can be very dumb at times.
That would my go to home computer usage. It’s my fallback computer, so I use Cinnamon on it. It’s been extremely reliable, and works very well for nearly all of my needs. I cannot recommend it enough. Especially for folks who need stability, and actually need to get work done. It’s not extremely configuration heavy, so there’s less things to be distracted with. There’s also much less things to break.
What about battery life?
I’m an i3 user. very lightweight, and no need to care about draining battery.
But I do keep a DE alongside, just in case I really need to use the traditional floating style desktop. Currently, I have Xfce. Cinnamon might be good thing to switch to.
It’s not as light as xfce, and not as light as i3. BUT I think the out of box experience (to me at least) is better. I have very little customization required on my end. I’m up and going in less than 30 min total. And upon startup, I’m still only in the ~750mb of RAM range?
I have a 15" screen normally pretty bright since the room is bright. It’s a 5 year old battery/computer. i5 dual core (I believe yours should be quad core now a days). I want to say I’m in the 4-5 hour range these days? But, it’s hard to tell. This guy never leaves my home desk, so I’m never far from power. I do keep it unplugged unless it’s charging though to help battery health. There’s nothing worse for a battery than keeping it plugged in always. I can’t fathom you’ll get less than 4-5 hours. I’ve always gotten MILES better battery life once I dumped Windows.
Thanks for this detailed reply! Yes the new i5 is quad cores.
I’ll wait for my laptop to arrive. Gonna do an arch install this time. Just because EnOS removed my fear of Arch Linux. (honestly, there was nothing to fear. its scary only in the memes)
Good luck. Let us know if you need help!
To quote the famous Tom Petty
“The waiting is the hardest part”
Glad you found a laptop. Good luck on the Arch install. I learned so much about my hardware when I did mine.
@flyingcakes
embrace Arch fear !! you be fine 
Very nice quote 
Also adds a new book to my read list 
What about getting a replacement? I’d expect 4 years use, then throw in another.
I’d also seriously want a laptop that can piggy back with a decent powerbank when doing heavy work outside (i.e. USB-C charging).
I guess we’re all looking forward to seeing x86 die down and ARM taking over the desktop too.
It seems to be the exception to the rule of “follow the author” to keep a certain quality of reading material. This was FAR better than the rest of his work - I think I read somewhere that it was worked on for years before finally being published, and it shows. great stuff! The follow-ups are just sequels 
I know it’s not relevant anymore to you @flyingcakes but this one looks nice
Maybe I will buy this . Windows and Office is a waste though 
Just be aware that they come with 4GB soldered and a single DIMM, so >8GB ram isn’t in dual channel. Beyond that, they’re not bad laptops at all. If you can find an L14 AMD for the same price I PERSONALLY would consider that a better laptop, as it has 2 DIMMS and no soldered ram (although a bit larger and heavier).
depend on what you need for ? i use Pinebook Pro for daily drive that ARM + only 4Gb … before that it was 16’ macbook pro .( heavy carry )
That price tag almost gave me a heart attack, until I realised it was in Baht.
And you killed us all with a 16000€ TV not long ago 
Hi all
I was too busy with some other work and couldn’t post here.
I received the laptop two days back. Not the best build quality/ sturdiness, but not bad by any means. Okay for my usage. The lid cover can easily be depressed by some weight and I would’ve liked that to be a bit more strong.
Some screenshots:
Polybar config stolen from a github repo and modified to suit my use.
Sorry I refrain from posting real pictures. Just a habit I caught.
@Hystrix I wanted to purchase that ThinkPad (intel version), and that was the only reason why I asked my dad to consider spending above the 50k line. But Lenovo is infamous for poor after sales services(at least in my city), so the idaa of a Thinkpad was dropped at the last moment. As of now, that AMD version ThinkPad is out of stock on amazon.
Thanks everyone!
