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  1. Thank you, at least after your first reply above which you were wrong because I am looking for help (and yes I am allowed to vent a bit about my problems with Lenovo, doesn't change I am looking for help), But with Starlink I will not be getting anything wireless, I prefer hard wired and turning off my wifi. But thanks for your opinion as to choose the big one which is a bit more powerful than the G14 with a better and brighter screen. I am not sold on it yet, but a local shop here ordered a G14 to be delivered from another store so I will be able to see it in person. I saw a G15 today though! It's quite thick, I was surprised. And it had a 16:9 aspect ratio, while I prefer the 16:10. Not sure what year it was but it was new in box. He opened it to show me. Looks nice but the G15 doesn't really feel like an ultrabook because it's so thick, so it feels more like a traditional laptop. If I can get my hands on one I would like to see the M16 in person. But the battery life of the G14 might actually be a good selling point for it. It's a tough choice. But both are around $2500 (G14) to $3000 (M16), so the price is astronomical, so I can't quite justify getting both, so that's why I'm torn. If the G14 was 1200 I would get it. but for double that it's really stretching what I can feel justifies the laptop. So I want to make the right choice.
  2. No, because I got a 10% off with my credit card, and now that the deal is gone I am no longer interested in getting a Lenovo laptop. It was overpriced anyway, 50% more than last year for the same laptop of last year's during the same black friday. It was not a sale. It is a racket. I waited a whole year to get the deal and after being unable to order, I give up, I ONLY wanted lenovo for the click buttons above the mouse pad, which I consider essential, but now I will consider an alternative because I waited for a year only be be disappointed with continued cancelled orders no matter what I did, despite my best efforts, and this was also at an insane premium, it is an 800 value laptop for top of the line and they sell for $1500. Stupid and ridiculous. If I'm going to spend $1500 now I will decide to get a gaming laptop instead so I have more power as a second laptop with high power and dedicated graphics, instead of just a replacement for my old x1 carbon. I hate the overpriced values of existing latops. $3,000 for some of these laptops or even $4,000 is just stupid. How about I sell you a pair of shoes for $500,000? No thanks I will buy a $50 pair from the nearby store. Dumb pricing on electronics has caused me to exit the market.
  3. I hate mac, so there's that And terrible value for the same quality This is my opinion, and I'm not trying to get into a mac vs windows debate. Just saying it's a hard pass on macs.
  4. It's not a matter of internet speed. All computers get good internet speed. Of any year since the dotcom boom of the 2000s. No I will not be using an external monitor. As I said I'll be traveling. I will not be buying any monitors. I will only use the laptop. I often like using my laptop on my lap in bed, and will carry it around accasionally.
  5. I'm a business owner, systems admin, developer, content creator, writer, and soon to be graduate student in another country. I need a lot of power, and I don't game although I might do a little. I called and spent many hours on the phone with Lenovo for nothing, it kept being canceled the next day after they insisted that the order would not be canceled this time. I tried at least 7 or 8 times. Eventually, I gave up. I tried other cards too, and also tried Paypal, which was instantly canceled. Manager at Lenovo told me they had been dealing with the order problem all day every day since the switch. They never should have switched. They lost my money and lost me as a customer because I'm trying competitors now.
  6. Sorry but you say God's name in vain so many times that I had to turn it off. Lately I heard you guys saying God's name in vain constantly so I'm going to have to discontinue watching you. I'm just saying this for feedback. Sorry guys. Interesting video but I can't watch.
  7. I can't decide which one will be best. I won't be gaming but I might do some gaming. I like the extra screen real estate of the M16. But I like the lighter weight of the G14. Or should I wait for the 2023 G14 model to come out? Price doesn't matter because both are already exorbitantly overpriced. If I'm going to spend at least $2000 to $2500, then I want the best laptop for my usage. I am traveling for an extended period, so the performance is going to be a lot better than my X1 Carbon because I can't use a desktop while traveling. Usage is content creation, etc. I love the 2.5lbs of the X1 carbon, I tried to buy a Gen 10 but after spending $7500 in credit card authorizations that all failed (problem with Lenovo's new payment gateway, it charged but then refunded a couple days later every time, I tried for 2 weeks), I gave up. And I could use something with more power and keep my older X1 carbon as a backup. Usage: Some content creation Some Server Admin work Some development work Learning / Graduate School (next year)
  8. On further research, the intel+MX450 is better, but marginally. the 5800H's integrated iGPU which is Vega 8 is very comparable to the MX450. Performance: Vega 8: 8.0 pts MX450: 10.3 pts However the 5800H Ryzen is a way better cpu than the 1165G7. It is dramatically better on multicore performance. So overall, it seems that the 5800H is the better deal overall. The only major downside is the lack of Thunderbolt 4, which means I have to find a new dock for external monitors and can't use my awesome Thunderbolt 4 dock that cost hundreds of dollars. I hope AMD adds Thunderbolt 4 support soon.
  9. I have a choice between two laptop models. They are identical in every way, except that one has the Ryzen 7 5800H, and the other has i7-1165G7 and includes a discrete GPU, the MX450, and because it's Intel, it also supports Thunderbolt 4. This is not for gaming, but I will be doing lots of graphics work, huge amounts of tabs (hundreds) and multiple virtual desktops multitasking, and some video editing, but not much. I'm a poweruser and will be using this as a workhorse. What do you think will be the better combo? The AMD without gpu, or the Intel+MX450?
  10. And to update, they did confirm there is no onboard RAM. But had no answer as to if it's running in single channel mode, so probably is.
  11. I do like my thinkpad and the main thing that keeps me in the thinkpad is the dedicated mouse buttons above the touchpad that I really use. I got the X1 carbon when it was the lightest weight and thinnest laptop out there. But I bought from lenovo. Get the warranty because guaranteed you'll need it, it's still chinese junk just like most stuff nowadays. It's in another league compared to HP though, which is the worst. I got my friend into a thinkpad from a mac, and she loves it. She got a yoga off ebay, and it's way faster than her old macbook and just as thin and light. I like her laptop because I like the built in stylus and ability to draw. I'm thinking of getting a convertible for that reason. Wish my X1 was convertible with a touchscreen, but the downside is the reflective screen. Probably better to have both for that reason. I really prefer a matte screen for daily use. Maybe I'll just have two laptops, one for convertible features and one for daily use. But yeah, Lenovo is overpriced and obviously caters to businesses. That's why I figured they snuck in the $700 for a 1TB m.2 drive upgrade, I guess hoping some stupid business would click pay without looking at the price. The new prices on lenovo are insane except during sales.
  12. No it doesn't. You're crazy if you are spending $3,000 on a thinkpad!! Lolol!! What do you do, wait for the times when nothing is on sale or right before black friday when the prices are so high no one buys it? The prices are half that during sales. They put those stupid prices so that when the "sales" happen people think they are getting a "deal" for a chinese laptop at $1000 to $1500 for the top of the line model.
  13. I didn't spend it, and anyway work spent about $1500 on this configuration. I think they picked it because it has dedicated ethernet and HDMI ports. This then is a more expensive laptop than your T15s. The lowest price you can get is $1,000 and it has bottom of the line specs, i3 with 4gb ram for $1,000. Who are these people who think $1500 for a middle-spec laptop is a "budget" laptop??? If you guys think $1500 is "budget", what do you guys spend on a laptop? $3500? Anyway I would not have chosen this model, I'd have chosen the X1 carbon, which is actually my personal laptop, or a yoga, or something else. But that's besides the point.
  14. Since when is $2,000 a budget laptop? And I've never in my life even seen actual budget laptops (like $500) have only one ram slot. Unlike this very expensive laptop.
  15. Budget laptop for $2,000 (two THOUSAND) dollars? This is not a budget laptop. The budget version has 4gb RAM and is still a thousand dollars.
  16. I went into the Lenovo site to build your own of this laptop (it is a work laptop) to check how the build goes, it does only have one choice, which is RAM in 4, 8, 16, or 32GB. Maybe it is sold in one stick, which is crazy, this is DDR memory (Dual Data Rate) which needs two sticks to use the DDR of its namesake, and it's being sold in a system that only supports one RAM module. Something more shocking however was when I saw how much they wanted to add a 1TB m.2 drive (which can be had on amazon for an average of about $100, or as low as $79), for $706. Yes seven HUNDRED dollars to add a 1TB (ONE TB) m.2 drive. The profit margin on that (around 95% profit?) has to be greater than the profit on the whole laptop and all components. Crazy.
  17. I have a Thinkpad E15 Gen 2 20TD laptop for work (cost $1,500 as configured). It had 8GB of RAM, so I figured I would open it and upgrade the RAM from the single open slot, since it said it should have 4gb or 8gb onboard memory. So I ordered a 16GB stick thinking I would have 24GB. I opened the laptop not to find an empty slot but.. an 8GB stick. I removed the 8gb stick and installed the 16gb stick. So now I have 16gb. What?! So this late 2021 brand new Thinkpad E15 Gen 2 laptop runs permanently in single channel RAM mode because it has only one RAM slot and no onboard ram??? I am on the phone with Lenovo support, but they told me yeah it doesn't look like any onboard RAM, but they're baffled as to why I have a single RAM slot. He's still on the phone trying to figure it out. It's beyond me that in 2021, a manufacturer would sell a laptop that runs in permanent single-channel mode! Is there some high-tech feature to enable dual-channel mode on a single ram stick?
  18. My new problem however is off-topic from this thread. I opened the laptop not to find an empty slot but.. an 8GB stick. I removed the 8gb stick and installed the 16gb stick. So now I have 16gb. What?! So this late 2021 brand new Thinkpad E15 Gen 2 laptop runs permanently in single channel RAM mode because it has only one RAM slot and no onboard ram??? I am on the phone with Lenovo support, but they told me yeah it doesn't look like any onboard RAM, but they're baffled as to why I have a single RAM slot. He's still on the phone trying to figure it out. Also by the way, on their system they said that the "32GB Maximum" was only based on Lenovo testing and that as higher RAM modules come available, it may happen that it supports more. So, this laptop may actually support 64GB... but only when a 64GB stick comes into existence!!
  19. I cancelled the 8gb order which was still another week out from a 3rd party. ordered the 16gb and already received with prime 2 day delivery and already installed.
  20. You mean mail it back to my company? LOL I work remotely. Anyway too late I already installed it.
  21. Guys, thanks so much, and thanks for the link @igormp. I didn't know about that hybrid mode, and I see it basically works in dual channel for the first 16gb, and then another 8gb overhead in single channel, but it's better than having nothing overhead in case I use more RAM. Also I watched a video about single vs dual channel memory (it did not address the flex mode, only a single stick), and while there was a big difference in FPS in gaming, there was no difference when it came to CPU intensive applications. So, even the last 8gb in single mode would probably not matter for my use. But the big thing I realized, is that with my PC's 1x 8gb RAM installed, even that low amount of memory is in slower single-channel mode. So it will be a huge upgrade to increase to 16gb dual channel+another extra 8gb ram for a total of 24gb. I ordered the 16gb stick to add to my system. Thanks for the help guys!
  22. Awesome. I will order a 16GB module too. Do you think I should cancel the 8GB (which hasn't been shipped yet) or just get it delivered to test out which is better?
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