Does your Office-issued Laptop Suck?

[2002civic]

I have a ThinkPad x1 carbon that is great until the fan stops and overheats. Excuse to turn the teams video off though.

[ExtraSlow]

Yeah the x1 carbon is too thin and doesn't dissapate heat well.

Everyone should shoot a can of air into the vents and fans once a year to see if that helps the airflow.

[Neil4Speed]

Seems like cold comfort but everyone is struggling with this. Thanks for the comments everyone.

[Jlude]

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I'm in marketing now, and really my day consists of zoom calls and tons of safari and chrome tabs, with a bunch of corporate security shit running in background. Not very power user. Last 3 years I've been on an i5 16gb MBP which was slow as balls. Borderline unusable, fan on the entire day like a jet engine, and if I have a couple of heavy tabs open with pivots, it'll start stalling and affecting my video and audio.

Just got upgraded to a base 14" MBP Pro with M1, and it's night and day. I don't think I've crested 50% CPU, which is when the screensaver kicks in over 3 screens when I'm AFK. My old laptop, I'd be averaging 80% CPU all day, and 100% with screen saver kicking in running at 5fps lol. I have yet to hear the fan kick in, my home office feels so silent now.

I know lots of you aren't Mac users, but fuck Intel chips haha. Guess that doesn't help my FS thread for my old i5 MBP.

edit - I think a lot of the problems with Intel cpus on laptops is throttling. Once the fan kicks in, and it starts throttling, you're losing 30% performance and it just snowballs from there.

edit 2 - talking to some of my engineering coworkers who use enough VMs to be stuck on Intel CPUs, their top of the like i9 Intel CPUs suffer from he same issues when it gets hot.

Bought the same MBP for the wife and couldn't believe how fast it is. Great laptop.

All of our company laptops are high end, 64gb, high end video card to enable tethered VR in our 3D models. I use my MBP to remote into my desktop. I gave up using windows on a mac a long time ago.

[Xtrema]

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Everything is a group version of chaturbate if you're brave enough.

Yes.

The filthy stuff in OneDrive people thought was private.

[bjstare]

Well, I can get an upgrade if I want, but I'm not sure if I want it.

Current: Thinkpad X390. i5-8365u quad core, 8gb. 120gb hdd

Optional upgrade: Dell 7330 i5-1245u 10-core, 16gb. 256gbSSD

Seems obvious spec-wise to go with the dell, but the last Dell I had a few years ago was a POS hardware-wise. The thinkpad, despite being a shitbox spec-wise has been awesome from a hardware perspective.

If I tough it out for another quarter or two I might have more options for replacement (or maybe not).

WWBD?

[zipdoa]

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Well, I can get an upgrade if I want, but I'm not sure if I want it.

Current: Thinkpad X390. i5-8365u quad core, 8gb. 120gb hdd

Optional upgrade: Dell 7330 i5-1245u 10-core, 16gb. 256gbSSD

Seems obvious spec-wise to go with the dell, but the last Dell I had a few years ago was a POS hardware-wise. The thinkpad, despite being a shitbox spec-wise has been awesome from a hardware perspective.

If I tough it out for another quarter or two I might have more options for replacement (or maybe not).

WWBD?

If you're allowed to run your own image, get a compact build for max performance (something like Ghost Specter). Do your due diligence (don't get your shit h4x0rd) but it has been a game changer on my lite builds.

[bjstare]

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If you're allowed to run your own image, get a compact build for max performance (something like Ghost Specter). Do your due diligence (don't get your shit h4x0rd) but it has been a game changer on my lite builds.

That is definitely not an option. I work for a Fortune 500 company that has an insane amount of bureaucracy haha. You get what you get.

[killramos]

My last dell was totally fine. Still kicking ( I gave it to my wife’s sister who needed a pc to run engg software in university).

Even a 256GB ssd is poverty

[ercchry]

My last dell had its screen polarized in the wrong direction for my sunglasses… then the battery ballooned up, replacement is a thinkpad, it will not charge with the dell doc, or it will but then it doesn’t extend the screens… plug and unplug till you get what you want… it’s also been dog shit when in teams meetings, seems worse when I host but like clockwork about 5min into the meeting I get a bad connection.. every single time. Wasn’t an issue on the dell. But hey! At least I can work outside again when it’s nice out

[bjstare]

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Even a 256GB ssd is poverty

Indeed. But I don't really store anything locally, so it's inconsequential.

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My last dell had its screen polarized in the wrong direction for my sunglasses… then the battery ballooned up, replacement is a thinkpad, it will not charge with the dell doc, or it will but then it doesn’t extend the screens… plug and unplug till you get what you want… it’s also been dog shit when in teams meetings, seems worse when I host but like clockwork about 5min into the meeting I get a bad connection.. every single time. Wasn’t an issue on the dell. But hey! At least I can work outside again when it’s nice out

My thinkpad is polarized the wrong direction as well. It definitely puts a damper on working outside, however I just resort to taking teams calls on my cell haha.

[ExtraSlow]

hard drive size is the least important spec for anything I do. My powerpoints aren't filling up many gigs.

[ThePenIsMightier]

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My last dell had its screen polarized in the wrong direction for my sunglasses… then the battery ballooned up, replacement is a thinkpad, it will not charge with the dell doc, or it will but then it doesn’t extend the screens… plug and unplug till you get what you want… it’s also been dog shit when in teams meetings, seems worse when I host but like clockwork about 5min into the meeting I get a bad connection.. every single time. Wasn’t an issue on the dell. But hey! At least I can work outside again when it’s nice out

Also Lenovo ThinkPad here. I have a warranty fan issue getting fixed, but the biggest piss off for me is what's essentially a non-standard keyboard. The [Ctrl] button goes in the bottom left corner, you stupid cream jockeys!!!

Now I'm wasting time with my dainty pinkie wondering why Ctrl+X and Ctrl+V isn't doing shit.
Assholes!

[ercchry]

Oh yeah! Forgot about that one (use a real keyboard most of the time because dock) but yeah! Fucking pricks.

My tan was constantly on but seems better after the bios update they pushed out

[LilDrunkenSmurf]

I'm so used to coding on my mac that I hit Alt+C and Alt+V to copy/paste on my PC now.

[Xtrema]

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That's down right sadistic.

[msommers]

Yeah Lenovos seem to have that across the board. I honestly can't imagine why anyone would like it and yet they keep on keeping on

[prae]

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I'm so used to coding on my mac that I hit Alt+C and Alt+V to copy/paste on my PC now.

Ah, I see you too are a coder of true sophistication

[hampstor]

I'm using a Lenovo x1 Carbon G9 with the i7 and 16GB of RAM. The thing I hate about these the most (aside from the evil function key location) is non upgradable memory. 16GB of RAM just isn't enough when you memory hogs like Microsoft Teams + Excel + Google Chrome.

Also, the Carbon 9's have issues with the power management at the firmware or hardware level. Lots of reports of them not charging at all new out of the box, or charging so slow that it'll consume more power than what it can take in.

[ThePenIsMightier]

My Dell dock charges it sufficiently, but it complains that it's a slower charge than what it came with. Then I snap its Fn key off and show it to its camera until it shuts up.