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Good on them for recycling this stuff instead of sending it to landfill. There are a lot of gamers who can't afford the latest and greatest.

Good on them for recycling this stuff instead of sending it to landfill. There are a lot of gamers who can't afford the latest and greatest.

Good on them for recycling this stuff instead of sending it to landfill. There are a lot of gamers who can't afford the latest and greatest.

Good on them for recycling this stuff instead of sending it to landfill. There are a lot of gamers who can't afford the latest and greatest.

What is the idle power draw on those things?
 
Come to that, what's the quiescent power draw of Linus' house?

I just realized, doesn't this require Secure Boot to be disabled and "Boot from USB" to be selected as a valid option (and preferably the first bootable option in the boot list)? Since it's generally turned off by default from most laptop/PC manufacturers, I'm unsure if someone's grandparents would know how to get into their BIOS let alone configure it. Surprised this wasn't really mentioned in the video.

I was also wondering.. Pretty sure every one of those sucks back 5-10W at idle, at least. That makes 85-170W for the 17 of those, so 745-1490kWh per year. At 20ct/kWh that would be 150-300$ yearly simply for running them in standby. But then, Canadian electricity is dirt cheap (?) and compared to the server farm he has running 24/7 that's probably peanuts anyways..

Remember the scene in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation where the Christmas lights on the house finally start working and they have to turn on an auxiliary nuclear plant?

What is the idle power draw on those things?
 
Come to that, what's the quiescent power draw of Linus' house?

What is the idle power draw on those things?
 
Come to that, what's the quiescent power draw of Linus' house?

There is one huge flaw with this. Most business machines and an increasing number of consumer ones are encrypted. Bitlocker enabled by default.
 
It can't decrypt those drives.

There is one huge flaw with this. Most business machines and an increasing number of consumer ones are encrypted. Bitlocker enabled by default.
 
It can't decrypt those drives.

There is one huge flaw with this. Most business machines and an increasing number of consumer ones are encrypted. Bitlocker enabled by default.
 
It can't decrypt those drives.

Yeah its fine, and drivers are stable enough that i would go for it. But do be noted that the stability is still far from AMD and Nvidia.

4x Thunderbolt ports on the AMD one? 2x NVMe? Sold.

Hey real quick, at 6:05 when you guys mention SDR's, might wanna put a disclaimer that the RTL-SDR/RTL2832U series can only get to a max of 1.7Ghz or so without a downconverter. It IS model dependent.

I've had so many bad experiences with HP machines, I can't bring myself to buy one now. It's a shame that Lenovo don't do this for their new Z series. ThinkPads used to be very easy to work on, but now they have soldered RAM...

It's a good first step...although I think it was missing a glaring oversight be HP.  The keyboard.
 
Lookup up the repair video it seems as though the way to replace it is effectively removing everything inside the laptop, but the repair guide actually doesn't specify replacing the keyboard.  I find that keyboards tend to get broken a lot (especially if working in areas that is naturally wet or super dusty).  Always wish the keyboard designs would lend themselves to easier replacement.
 
Although Framework looks like it's pretty involved as well...but Framework in general seems like it would be easier to replace the keyboard

The statement in the video that there are no-tradeoffs is not quite correct.

The chose of memory used (so that is can be modular) means that it is not just slower but also draws more power than LPDDR5 options.

Batterylife numbers on Windows Devices are usually very unrealistic
 
Notebookcheck got 11:55 hours: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-ThinkPad-Z16-G1-laptop-review-Powerful-AMD-flagship-with-a-hickup.658764.0.html#toc-7
They used decent 150 nits Brightness, which is even too dark for a usual bright Day with alot of Daylight in your Room.
Those 11:55 hours also were probably a Videofile, not an online Video streaming.
 
Matthew Moniz claims 19 hours over the 3D Mark Modern office Benchmark. But take this with a grain of salt. This Benchmark could contain Idle Times too, and not 1^9 hours non stop working.
Could be 8-9 hours nonstop working with 10 hours idle inbetween, to simulate mixed usage. But well, he doesn't seem to "test" it by himself, but relies on a Benchmark with no comparison to any other Laptop. I personally would trust Notebookcheck more. Sorry Matthew.
He also claims, the Trackpad is nearly on Macbook level. Both Z-Models use a haptic touch trackpad with sensor recognition, similar to Macbook.

JustJosh had the Z13, and in his opinion, the Trackpad was very challenging to use. He did not like it. But he also doesn't like the Trackpoint (me neither), so he criticized that Mousebutton area.
However, his Batterytest seems accurate. a TINY little bit below the Macbook Air M2, same Result as Notebookcheck had (Z13 lasts for a tiny bit shorter than MBA M2).
 
Andrew Marc David claims 9-10 hours~ usage. Not sure, how his Test methology was.
 
So yea. 23 hours seem more fiction than the new Lord of the Rings series. Expect 8-11 hours maybe, depending on Workflow, how intense you're using it, background Applications, Displaybrightness etc - only counting in light workloads of course. Full Load is probably <2-3 hours as with most laptops.
 
I personally think, it's an interesting new fresh Wind in the Thinkpad Lineup. Good Webcam, GREAT CPU Choice for Z13 and Z16, USB 4 so you have basicly Thunderbolt (3 or 4 doesn't matter, both can do 40 gbit/s).
Soldered Ram is a bummer, but it has advantages. Buy as much as you need, and problem solved. It will most likely never break anyway.
I don't know why they kept the Trackpoint without "real" Mousebuttons.
 
Not having 64gb Ram is porbably their product strategy. Most of the Target audience won't need more than 32gb (most will be fine with 16). Anyone who needs 64gb Ram will probably chose a Workstation labled Model.

In the same review they did say 11 or 12 hours for web browsing. Just shows of efficient the GPU's video decoding is. I can't remember what the screen brightness was but I prefer it not too bright anyway. I use a computer for work so don't want a bright light shining in my face all day, and make sure my monitor is positioned so sunlight doesn't fall directly on the screen.
 
Anyway, even 11 hours is way more than I need. If they offered a smaller battery I'd probably take it, just to decrease the weight.
 
 
It's one of the new haptic ones, i.e. no click buttons but it has a vibration motor that simulates the feel of a tactile switch. Some people say it takes a bit of getting used to, some people say it needs the force adjusting in the settings. Personally I usually bring a mouse with me, unless it's a Thinkpad in which case the... uh... clit mouse, whatever they call it, is my preferred option.
 
 
Yeah, and it's not like there is much competition at the moment. Not enough Ryzen 6000 laptops, and Intel ones all suffer from high power consumption and heat. It ticks all the boxes for me, you can save money by buying it without an OS... The only things I miss are 64GB of RAM and no USB A ports.
 
Well, NFC would be nice. And a Japanese keyboard. And the option to buy it without an SSD.
 
 
Yeah, I looked at their workstations, but aside form mostly being Intel based they are a bit on the heavy side. Long long ago back in 2012 I bought an NEC laptop with 4GB of RAM, which was the maximum that mobile Intel chips supported at the time. It's been okay but is basically a Chromebook these days, because if you try to run more than a web browser it has issues.
 
I'm hoping that 32GB of RAM is enough. 4GB was low even back then, where as 32GB is decent today. Also with NVMe SSDs offering gigabytes per second of bandwidth it should make hitting virtual memory less of an issue. My current desktop has 32GB and it's been more than adequate, although I anticipate doing a bit more video editing and using VMs more regularly (primarily WSL) than I do today.
 
There is an option to get a Radeon 6000 mobile discrete GPU with 4GB of RAM, but I wasn't planning to. Maybe I should reconsider, but I was thinking I'll get a Thunderbolt dock with an eGPU, probably one of those cheap Intel ones because they have good video encoding. The on board GPU would only be used for travelling when I don't do really heavy stuff. Just concerned about Intel's drivers and OpenGL support, as I do CAD and DTP that use it.

The iron is fine, the problem is that you need the right tip to get the heat into the parts that need to be heated.
 
Conical tips are pretty useless for basically anything. I don't know why they are popular. Hakko make great flat ones that are perfect for this.

I have the same issue. No Atmel Studio under Wine, no VS2019, no Google Drive for work unless you use Gnome (which is awful).
 
I want to switch but there's always something that I need which doesn't work, been that way for decades.

If only you could...

The BarraCuda NVMe ZP512CM30031 and also the ZP256CM30031 are Self-encrypted models, you can see more details here in case you are interested:
https://www.seagate.com/internal-hard-drives/ssd/barracuda-ssd/#nvme