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My fully decked out ThinkPad T16 Gen 1 I got for work last year is a piece of shit. Lenovo keeps messing up the BIOS (sometimes it took up to 2 minutes to reach the Windows loading screen), it sometimes has trouble with the Lenovo Monitor (which has a docking station with USB-C), or a colleague who had the same model it refused to charge.
Don't get me started on thermals, that thing either sounds like a jet engine or throttles down to 1.4 GHz on a damn 6 core CPU. That's partly Intel's fault too of course (The AMD counterpart would likely run cooler/faster).
I always thought ThinkPads are awesome, now that I actually use a $3000 one I'd never buy one myself.
You should buy AMD ones, but some of the newer models need to be selected a bit more carefully, as unfortunate as that sounds. ThinkPads were the gold standard, but they are now becoming the least bad one. That is all I can say, with my L470 pretty strong after 6 years, a HDD change, battery change and base cover change.
Unfortunate to hear you got a bit burnt.
Well, my new workplace selected it and paid for it, I just have to use it.
Personally I'd have gone with the AMD CPU, at home I rock a 5800X3D :)
Intel's power consumption is off the charts unfortunately. Those e-cores didn't help at all.
Intel is a joke, and it will only stop when they actually use lower nanometre node process, instead of stacking a + every year on top of +++++++ marketing stack.
Yep, even "efficiency" cores are a scam. They were forced to go that way because their current process simply can't support all full cores without drawing 300W+ and taking too much space.
Cut down E-Cores aren't even efficient power wise, just space efficient so they could fit them on the die.
Besides power consumption my trust for Intel is down the gutter with half a dozen security issues. Which were patched with performance degradation. So they fucked up, patched it in software, now your hardware runs slower than when you bought it.