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Re:New Lenovo ThinkPad Range with Ryzen 4000 and 4000 Pro Mo... by combixtreen on Thursday May 07, 2020 @02:31PM (#23106421)
You forgot about 15” X1E, which is a desktop replacement. It’s still light and portable but comes with higher specs. I have one with UHD screen, 32GB and 1TB. Same weight as a 15” MacBook Pro. Configured with an FHD screen, it’s lighter than MacBook.
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Re:New Lenovo ThinkPad Range with Ryzen 4000 and 4000 Pro Mo... by nullobject on Thursday May 07, 2020 @08:37PM (#23110071)
I just switched to the X1E after using Mac for the past 20 years. I'm running Ubuntu 20.04.

It's an amazing machine: excellent build quality, screen, and variety of ports. The only thing I can complain about is the battery life, which isn't great.

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Re:New Lenovo ThinkPad Range with Ryzen 4000 and 4000 Pro Mo... by RedneckBob on Friday May 08, 2020 @12:06AM (#23111292)
You installed cpufreaq yet? It is a life saver and a battery saver too. I run most of the time with 4 cores, turbo disabled, and capped at about 50%. Makes a huge difference in battery runtime.

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1082/cpufreq/

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Re:New Lenovo ThinkPad Range with Ryzen 4000 and 4000 Pro Mo... by jlgaddis on Friday May 08, 2020 @02:43AM (#23112043)
FWIW, PowerTOP [0] and tlp [1] used to be the "go-to" utility for this sort of thing.

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[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerTOP

[1]: https://linrunner.de/tlp/

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Re:New Lenovo ThinkPad Range with Ryzen 4000 and 4000 Pro Mo... by basch on Thursday May 07, 2020 @03:37PM (#23107254)
also the FHD screen has twice the battery life, if you want to make that trade off.
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