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jmclnx

Lets see:

> Integrated Intel® Iris® Xe Graphics

No Nvidia, nice, may work with OpenBSD

> 8 GB LPDDR5-6400MHz (Soldered)

Why Soldered Memory, not good. And who sells 8gb memory with a serious look :)

> 256 GB SSD M.2 2280 PCIe TLC Opal

Fine by me

> Intel® Wi-Fi 6E AX211 2x2 AX vPro® & Bluetooth® 5.1

Should be fine

> 14" WUXGA (1920 x 1200)

Edit, not bad I think - seems even better than 16:9, more vertical resolution, nice.

All in all, sorry, I will pass due to the Soldered Memory. But looks like a nice machine that could be used with a BSD

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> Why Soldered Memory, not good.

LPDDR5 does not exist in DIMM for technical reasons. Laptops with discrete RAM sticks use slower and more power hungry regular DDR5. There are pros and cons both ways.

> All in all, sorry, I will pass due to the Soldered Memory

The specs are configurable, OP just linked to a specific configuration. Though the soldered memory is an unfortunate compromise to the conventional ThinkPad experience.

I don't think that any configuration has SO-DIMM RAM, you need to go to the T series for that.

The new T series models all have soldered RAM AFAIK. Lenovo seems to be putting SO-DIMMs only on select P series (i.e., actual mobile workstations, not T series branded as P).

But some have enough memory that you would probably not miss the SO-DIMMs, I mean, do you have a workload needing more than 32GB that you would run in the notebook (with the limited CPU and thermal constraints)?

But just 8GB in a non-upgradeable package is not for me.

The X1 line is supposed to be an ultrabook style laptop i.e. as thin as possible. Hence the soldered RAM. Furthermore power consumption with socketed RAM is higher.

The T series thinkpads usually have a soldered module and SODIMM slot, if you prefer that route. And of course there is the Framework with two SODIMM slots.

And as far as who sells 8 GB RAM laptops seriously... Lots of vendors, including Apple (and they charge $200 to upgrade that to 16 GB). Frankly I think 8 GB is fine for a lot of use cases, although maybe not in 5 years or so.

I don't mind soldered memory but it's hard to imagine buying a new laptop in 2022 with a mere 8gb if it's going to be soldered.

When did memory become that fast? did I miss 2ghz of progress?

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