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Why are all the Lenovo ThinkPads either like $500-600 or like $2000? (lemmy.world)
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What is the big chasmic difference?

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[–] 1 point 1 week ago* (4 children)

Decent graphics or decent battery life: Can't have both in a laptop.

My gaming laptop is an Eluktronics Prometheus 17 and that's pretty pretty good (minus battery life, maaaybe 3 hours with light use, probably closer to 1 for gaming) but for regular use I stick to my L14 Thinkpad with Cinnamon Mint on default settings and it can do 4+ hours no problem.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

    I've got a Thinkpad T14 G1 stowed away, and that thing is pretty sweet... But being AMD powered, the best resolution it's capable of is just 1920x1080, which drives me absolutely insane on a small 14" screen. My Spectre runs a much nicer 4K OLED touch display (which I can't imagine helps with battery life).

    I barely use the Spectre for gaming.

    Edit: Honestly - after googling around a bit - if I can successfully install the missing SMD capacitors on the eDP connection, I will happily daily the Thinkpad.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago* (2 children)

    1920x1080 seems pretty usable to me on a small screen but screen upgrades are fairly popular with old Thinkpads.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    I vastly prefer 1440p at this point. The way I use my laptop, running at FHD just feels crowded.

    That, and the fact that Lenovo artificially limited the display output of their AMD models to FHD is enough to make me mod it out of spite.

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