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<div>Thanks again to all sharing their knowledge and opinions here!<br></div><div><br></div><div>28. Juli 2020, 17:26 von <a href="mailto:monnier@iro.umontreal.ca">monnier@iro.umontreal.ca</a>:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><blockquote><blockquote>any thinkpad will run any form of linux perfectly.<br></blockquote><div>Alas, I think that is an overstatement.<br></div><div>Last time I checked (quite some time ago, admittedly, so I'm happy to be<br></div><div>corrected), most Thinkpads required non-free drivers, e.g. for their<br></div><div>wireless network cards.<br></div></blockquote></blockquote><div>True. Even if you do use proprietary drivers, some things can require some research and work to get running. I've made the experience with bluetooth... but I would agree that getting Linux running smoothly on a Thinkpad is probably easier than than on an "average Laptop", or the chance that it runs smoothly out of the box is higher.<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>PS: BTW, it seems like the T450s *does* support 16GB SODIMMs and while<br></div><div>they're not super-common, I found such dimm on newegg (which even<br></div><div>explicitly mentions T450s) for about US$140, so the memory size limit is<br></div><div>really 20GB.<br></div></blockquote><div>Yes, I also found that it supports 16GB DDR3 SODIMMs, even though Lenovo doesn't officially say that. Just like the T61 officially wouldn't support 8GB of RAM, which it does. But I find the price for these modules rather high, it would be almost a third of the price I would pay for the T450s, for about the same price I can get 32GB DDR4 SODIMMs. RAM modules of an older generation, especially big ones, are usually more expensive than the newer one of the same size.<br><br>So in terms of RAM, I tend to the X270, I would have 16GB to begin with and for about the same money I would spend to upgrade the T450s to 20GB I could even go up to 32GB (which the X270 seems to supports, inofficially). That seems way more than needed in everyday life, but for video editing it could be useful.</div><div><br></div><div>One thing I like about the T450s, though is the option to use two SSDs - one 2,5 inch and one in the M.2 slot. As far as I understand, there should be the same possibility with the X270, but I found much less information about it. <br></div><div><br></div> </body>
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