for anyone who wants to offer actual advice: its a lenovo thinkpad t450 with a soldered i5-5300U that hits over 90C when running cargo compiles. I have changed the thermal paste and it didn’t do much.

    • Vuraniute@thelemmy.clubOPEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I’ve started looking more into getting an ARM laptop. I know a bloke who has an M1 Macbook and it has indescribable battery life without sacrificing performance. Apple is out of the question due to their walled garden, though (I don’t want to get sucked into their ecosystem and end up with an iPhone, Apple Watch, and who knows what else), so Snapdragon X series it is for me.

        • Vuraniute@thelemmy.clubOPEnglish
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          3 months ago

          Apparently, it isn’t as good as Apple’s ARM processor

          Not from what my searching shows, the X1P curbstomps the M1.

          AMD processors are almost what you’re looking for - low-power processors, highly performant iGPU, bang for buck

          I’ve used a laptop with a (i think it was) Ryzen 5 5500u and it was the complete opposite of that. Lags on midnight protocol (game), it cost almost 1000euros, aka the same price as the Surface Pro 11 here, and it hit peaks of 101C, averaging at 70.

  • Mazesecle@lemm.eeEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Just leaving this here in case you don’t know: there are also the Framework laptops, which are designed to be modular, upgradable, and have easy to buy replacement parts.

    They even sell motherboards, so you can now get a e.g. Intel Core Ultra motherboard for your 3-4 year old laptop.

    Of course It’s a bit more expensive than a used 10 year old Thinkpad, but it kind of competes with other high end laptops, and it is cheaper especially when you consider it’s designed to last more

    (Not a sponsored post, just glad there is a company that makes such products, and that when I broke a part I could just go to their store and order a replacement instead of searching for serial numbers on random online stores etc like I’ve done before)

      • 5PACEBAR@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        agreed that those machines can be expensive but all framework models can absolutely have 64 GB of RAM

        source : me, the fw13 that I use as a server and my fw16 both have 64 GB (I love those machines)

          • Mazesecle@lemm.eeEnglish
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            2 months ago

            I used Aramex’s shop&ship (both times), I found them from Courier Center’s website.

            The cost was a bit much, but nothing compared to the laptop itself (and also I really didn’t want to buy yet another laptop that in a few years would be obsolete and unrepairable).

            The laptop’s order shipping was €70 and it took ~10 days after it arrived at their location. You can compare the shipping cost to/from various countries, my DIY package was 4.5kg

            Edit: just a few days after making this comment, I received an email from Framework that they started shipping to Greece, among other countries!

  • loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    A few months ago when I had to replace my shitty HP laptop from 2018, I found a secondhand Thjnkpad model from 2013 for 90€ which was better in every way.

      • loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works
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        3 months ago

        I didn’t say it was good in the absolute, but that i5 processor from 2013 was better than the Intel Celeron processor from 2018, I checked. Yeah, my previous laptop wasn’t the best of 2018; neither I or anyone in my direct family knew a lot about computers then.