I using an older ThinkPad 530 for work and having two Lenovo personal machines also, I would say with my experience the Thinkpad is only line that is worth anything from Lenovo.
But I was surprise this did not Quadro - but then i look about the more professional line.
Does Lenovo lock down the WiFi cards in the firmware still? I recall that being a thing on Thinkpads at one point but that might have been back in the IBM days. If I can upgrade the WiFi in the future this is looking like my perfect laptop.
Why the heck did they ruin the keyboard with a numpad since the T530 and T450s I used to have at work? The touchpad being jammed over to the left looks so uncomfortable :(
Yes actually because Intel's recent integrated GPUs are amongst the the best at HEVC/H265 encoding and decoding. Just goes to show how little you know about the subject at hand, Hurr Durr.
"The Spectre flaw was more serious and it affects chips from AMD, ARM, and Intel. The flaw was thought to be much harder to fix, if fixable at all. Google called the flaw Spectre because it thought 'it will haunt us for quite some time.'
But Intel said that it had found a fix for 90% of its processors made in the last five years and that the fix will be ready by the end of next week."
According to the Project Zero blog post announcing these flaws:
"A warning regarding explanations about processor internals in this blogpost: This blogpost contains a lot of speculation about hardware internals based on observed behavior, which might not necessarily correspond to what processors are actually doing.
We have some ideas on possible mitigations and provided some of those ideas to the processor vendors; however, we believe that the processor vendors are in a much better position than we are to design and evaluate mitigations, and we expect them to be the source of authoritative guidance."
It's just damage control, you can smell it from a mile. They will either keep delaying the release of the so called "fix" until a different big news appears or the fix will be just be a band-aid that won't cover all the holes but just enough to win some trust back.
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abrowne1993 - Friday, January 5, 2018 - link
Kudos for sticking with the classic Thinkpad design cues for so long but damn are they ugly.star-affinity - Friday, January 5, 2018 - link
Hehe. I agree. Looks like it was designed in the mid to late nineties. But I know there's some people who thinks it looks good. :-/goatfajitas - Friday, January 5, 2018 - link
I dont give a crap what it looks like brand new. Its durable, scratch resistant and reliable (assuming its in line with previous T series.HStewart - Friday, January 5, 2018 - link
I using an older ThinkPad 530 for work and having two Lenovo personal machines also, I would say with my experience the Thinkpad is only line that is worth anything from Lenovo.But I was surprise this did not Quadro - but then i look about the more professional line.
wolrah - Friday, January 5, 2018 - link
Does Lenovo lock down the WiFi cards in the firmware still? I recall that being a thing on Thinkpads at one point but that might have been back in the IBM days. If I can upgrade the WiFi in the future this is looking like my perfect laptop.evilspoons - Friday, January 5, 2018 - link
Why the heck did they ruin the keyboard with a numpad since the T530 and T450s I used to have at work? The touchpad being jammed over to the left looks so uncomfortable :(vladx - Friday, January 5, 2018 - link
HDMI 1.4 only, really Lenovo?Hurr Durr - Saturday, January 6, 2018 - link
What, you`re going to try 4k with that video spec?DanNeely - Saturday, January 6, 2018 - link
For non gaming uses even a smart phone GPU is overkill at 4k.vladx - Saturday, January 6, 2018 - link
Yes actually because Intel's recent integrated GPUs are amongst the the best at HEVC/H265 encoding and decoding. Just goes to show how little you know about the subject at hand, Hurr Durr.Hurr Durr - Saturday, January 6, 2018 - link
I`m not an autist, true.galfert - Sunday, January 7, 2018 - link
Not buying anything new until the Meltdown and Spectre CPU flaws are fixed. Happy with my T440s for now.GreenThumb - Sunday, January 7, 2018 - link
galfert, I was just thinking the same thing... If I absolutely had to buy, I'd rather buy used than new till those flaws are fixed in hardware.Bummer; I was looking forward to buying a T580 or P52s.
I hope all the CEOs of the big PC makers are all over Intel for a fix as fast as possible.
vladx - Sunday, January 7, 2018 - link
Too bad because Spectre is not fixable since it exploits fundamental functions in modern processors. To fix it, we'd have to go back to Pentium 1 era.nnnnn - Sunday, January 7, 2018 - link
"The Spectre flaw was more serious and it affects chips from AMD, ARM, and Intel. The flaw was thought to be much harder to fix, if fixable at all. Google called the flaw Spectre because it thought 'it will haunt us for quite some time.'But Intel said that it had found a fix for 90% of its processors made in the last five years and that the fix will be ready by the end of next week."
nnnnn - Sunday, January 7, 2018 - link
According to the Project Zero blog post announcing these flaws:"A warning regarding explanations about processor internals in this blogpost: This blogpost contains a lot of speculation about hardware internals based on observed behavior, which might not necessarily correspond to what processors are actually doing.
We have some ideas on possible mitigations and provided some of those ideas to the processor vendors; however, we believe that the processor vendors are in a much better position than we are to design and evaluate mitigations, and we expect them to be the source of authoritative guidance."
vladx - Sunday, January 7, 2018 - link
It's just damage control, you can smell it from a mile. They will either keep delaying the release of the so called "fix" until a different big news appears or the fix will be just be a band-aid that won't cover all the holes but just enough to win some trust back.