Quoting: vskyeNot a bad price, even with bumping up the specs to 32GB of ram and a 1TB nvme drive. 1000 euros, or about $1171 US.

But not out of the ordinary either.

I bought a Lenovo X13 for 1000 Euros 2 months ago: 500GB Samsung NVMe SSD, 16GB/3200 RAM, 4750U Pro, no OS. With this RAM/SSD configuration the Tuxedo comes in at 920 Euros. With the Lenovo you get a 3 year on-site support. And a trackpoint. And 4 USB 3 ports (2 type C, 2 type A). And an excellent keyboard...

https://www.campuspoint.de/20ugs00800-lenovocampus-thinkpad-x13-amd.html [External Link]

(Granted: You have to have a university e-mail account...)

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Quoting: GuestWhy LPDDR4 ... Like i know is faster

...and consumes less power. What else do you need to justify the use of LPDDR?

but is a huge turn off for me, id like to upgrade my ram, and id like to know that if the ram fails i can replace it myself..sigh, this is one thing that keeps me from buying these new thinkpads. I mean they look good and all, and i bet they are impressive but i want to be able to ,under the hood, deal with things myself.

That might be you. I'd say pretty much "every" laptop user never opens his or her laptop and tinkers with the innards. I am really this hardware building stuff and I have built my desktops for the last 30 years. But apart from upgrading an SSD a few times I have never bothered to work on my laptops. Not a single one needed a battery replacement (the oldest laptop in my household is 8 years old) and it was only once that I upgraded a laptop with additional RAM. I am sure Lenovo, Dell and all the others can rest assured that resorting to soldered components will do them no noticable harm. And as far as failing components go: I once had a failing display on an HP but it also came with a 3-year-pick-up warranty...

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Quoting: pbThat ugly red clitoris nipple wtfisitcalled in the middle of the keyboard though...

It's called a "trackpoint". And it's... perfect.

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Quoting: Avehicle7887

Up to 16GB LPDDR4x

A high end laptop with non upgradeable memory, if I was in the market for a laptop this certainly wouldn't be it.

AFAIK LPDDR is always soldered.

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Quoting: CatKiller

Quoting: Purple Library GuyIt's cool, but at that point why "replace"? Why not just have a desktop computer?

Perhaps you have more than one desk that you work at, or no regular desk.

Something like this would be perfect for my wife's work machine. She is an artist and does a lot of graphic design for proofs/mockups of crafted products. While, during the day, she works at a desk, in the late afternoons and evenings, she works from the sofa.

4 kilos is not something you want balance on your lap while relaxing on a sofa. This is something that has to sit firmly on a desk. It is actually heavier than my ITX board in its 20x20x30cm case. Granted, it comes with a display, but still...

(posted from my Lenovo Thinkpad weighing 1.3 kilos resting on my legs.)

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Quoting: ShmerlLess hardware bugs and such.

I keep hearing about Navi being buggy, I haven't find bugs on my navi. Maybe I hit the silicon lottery? is there any documentation about the bugs? are there any workarounds?

That was the one I suffered most from
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/929 [External Link]

Disappeared with 5.7.x but for some it seems to prevail.

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Quoting: damarrinQuite, roughly one year after the cards came out.

I recently bought a Ryzen 3xxx laptop. A CPU from one year ago. It was unstable in Mint 20, I had to go hunting for newer kernels.

Ryzen 4xxx just came out. You need to go hunting for newest kernels to make it work.

Whenever AMD comes out with something more radically new months of hurt await again.

I bought a X13 laptop with a 4750U Pro a few weeks ago. Naturally I need a kernel that already knows about this hardware to allow accelerated graphics. So yes, I have to "hunt" for a recent kernel (i.e. download it from the mainline repos). Bottom line: everything including all peripherals works flawlessly. I don't know, but will Tiger Lake work on kernels from a year ago?

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Quoting: damarrin

Quoting: Tuxee

Quoting: damarrinNo they aren’t.

Care to elaborate?

I don't need to: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/forum/topic/4128

Since I am the expert on the topic - the problem is (and for some it still seems to prevail) - the dual screen support. It was also about the lack of OpenCL. Things which might be moot for gamers anyway. I also said:

On the bright side: Doing some Vulkan benchmarks yielded spectacular frame rates when compared to my previous GTX1060:

• War Thunder saw a 70% increase (this game works now more stable with Vulkan than OpenGL, albeit far from flawless)


• Shadow of Mordor went from 90 FPS to 146


• Talos Principle exploded from 60 FPS to 280

I do have an RX5700 and a 5500X (paired with AMD CPUs) and since kernel 5.7.x I don't experience any notable issues anymore. (I do have a Windows partition for testing purposes and the AMD driver for Windows has some showstoppers up its sleeve.)
Today I consider the AMD drivers for Navi GPUs suitable for Linux gamers - if they are using a recent kernel.

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Quoting: damarrinNo they aren’t.

Care to elaborate?

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Quoting: medI've been out of the GPU-loop for about five years now, but are Linux AMD drivers good enough for gaming now? This was always a problem before?

My RX 5700 took its fair share of time to play nice with two displays (required kernel 5.7.x OR 5.3.x), but as far as gaming goes it has been quite smooth from the get go.

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