New Lenovo ThinkPad Range with Ryzen 4000 and 4000 Pro Mobile

Re:New Lenovo ThinkPad Range with Ryzen 4000 and 4000 Pro Mo... by vzaliva on Thursday May 07, 2020 @02:00PM (#23106000)

What about problems people mention here? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22969469

I love ThinkPad and planning to buy one soon, but reporters of problems with sound and WiFi drivers concerning.

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Re:New Lenovo ThinkPad Range with Ryzen 4000 and 4000 Pro Mo... by chmln on Thursday May 07, 2020 @02:48PM (#23106667)

I mean, buying a brand-new device and using Ubuntu 19.04 with the 5.0 kernel from a year ago and outdated packages is begging for trouble.

Since linux drivers live mostly in kernel space, for new devices I would imagine a lot of issues would be fixed by running the latest kernel or mainline for even newer hardware.

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Re:New Lenovo ThinkPad Range with Ryzen 4000 and 4000 Pro Mo... by eropple on Thursday May 07, 2020 @02:06PM (#23106079)

The newer Carbons and the X1 Extreme have had a rougher time than most Lenovo laptops. My T480 and T580 were pretty much perfect from the jump, but my X1 Extreme remains disappointing.

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Re:New Lenovo ThinkPad Range with Ryzen 4000 and 4000 Pro Mo... by noisy_boy on Thursday May 07, 2020 @03:15PM (#23107017)

I installed Ubuntu 19.04 on X1 Extreme Gen 2 and didn't have any issues. Upgrades to 19.10 and 20.04 have been painless as well. Everything basically works.

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Re:New Lenovo ThinkPad Range with Ryzen 4000 and 4000 Pro Mo... by eropple on Thursday May 07, 2020 @03:19PM (#23107065)

I have an X1 Extreme Gen 1 and it's had power/battery issues since I got it.

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Re:New Lenovo ThinkPad Range with Ryzen 4000 and 4000 Pro Mo... by specto on Thursday May 07, 2020 @08:14PM (#23109901)

Yep same on the Gen 1, it's an awful machine.

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Re:New Lenovo ThinkPad Range with Ryzen 4000 and 4000 Pro Mo... by nullobject on Thursday May 07, 2020 @08:43PM (#23110127)

Running 20.04 on X1E G2 without issues here.

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Re:New Lenovo ThinkPad Range with Ryzen 4000 and 4000 Pro Mo... by petschge on Thursday May 07, 2020 @03:11PM (#23106967)

Recently bought T490 worked with Debian stable out of the box.

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Re:New Lenovo ThinkPad Range with Ryzen 4000 and 4000 Pro Mo... by petepete on Thursday May 07, 2020 @02:08PM (#23106120)

Providing you pick one with intel wifi you'll have no problem. As far as I can see, that's the only real disadvantage of these AMD models.

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Re:New Lenovo ThinkPad Range with Ryzen 4000 and 4000 Pro Mo... by tssva on Thursday May 07, 2020 @02:53PM (#23106731)

Having an AMD cpu doesn't prevent having an Intel wifi chipset. My AMD based Thinkpad T495 has an Intel wifi chipset.

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Re:New Lenovo ThinkPad Range with Ryzen 4000 and 4000 Pro Mo... by petepete on Friday May 08, 2020 @11:48AM (#23116092)

I didn't know that, thanks.

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Re:New Lenovo ThinkPad Range with Ryzen 4000 and 4000 Pro Mo... by dgzl on Thursday May 07, 2020 @02:04PM (#23106056)

I've been running Arch on X1Y2 no problem

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