Sunday, July 01
Daily News Stuff 1 July 2018
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- Lenovo has listed the Thinkpad E485 and its big sister the E585 - in Australia, anyway; they don't seem to have shown up in the US just yet.
These are business-oriented laptops with AMD Ryzen CPUs. 1920x1080 IPS displays (which should really be the minimum these days), with room for an M.2 SSD and a 2.5" 7mm SATA drive, two DDR4 SO-DIMM slots supporting up to 32GB of RAM, and wired gigabit Ethernet - the sorts of things you don't get on the typical ultralight notebook, because they don't fit. And they have PgUp/PgDn/Home/End keys, and USB-C charging. HDMI out and DisplayPort over the USB-C port - which is a pain if you want to use DisplayPort and charge at the same time and don't have a new monitor with that special combination port. Or an adaptor.
No touchscreen option, but they do have that little trackpoint thingy as well as the usual trackpad.
Here's the kicker: The E485 is A$999 with a Ryzen 2500U, 256GB PCIe SSD and 8GB RAM. The equivalent - nearly identical - Intel version lists for A$1899, though it's on sale right now. The Intel version has dedicated AMD graphics, but that's the same performance (8 Radeon CUs) as the graphics built in to the Ryzen 2500U anyway. For the price of the base Intel model, you can get the AMD system with 32GB RAM, 512GB SSD plus 1TB* hard disk, and two year on-site service.
The 14" E485 weighs in at 1.75kg, and the 15.6" E585 at 2.1kg. So they're not ultralight, but not heavyweights either. My Inspiron 15 7000, which is fairly sleek for a 15" notebook, weighs 2.1kg.
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* The largest drive offered is 1TB, but Seagate makes a 7mm high 2TB 2.5" SSHD, which would be a perfect addition if you get it with just the M.2 SSD.
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Too bad I just got a new desktop at work and we have to buy Dell.
I bought an Acer a few months ago with an i5-8250 in it and I really like it. It came with USB-C, and you can charge it with the proprietary adapter or the USB port, either at 45W. Very nice. It's also got 2 USB 3 type A ports, and has USB monitor output, but not Thunderbolt.
I bought a type A USB 3-to-gigabit Ethernet adapter, since it only came with wifi. It's almost good enough to be my work machine.
I bought an Acer a few months ago with an i5-8250 in it and I really like it. It came with USB-C, and you can charge it with the proprietary adapter or the USB port, either at 45W. Very nice. It's also got 2 USB 3 type A ports, and has USB monitor output, but not Thunderbolt.
I bought a type A USB 3-to-gigabit Ethernet adapter, since it only came with wifi. It's almost good enough to be my work machine.
Posted by: Rick C at Monday, July 02 2018 04:04 AM (ITnFO)
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Yeah, any of the i5/i7 8000 series chips will do a great job. Moving from dual to quad core is a huge difference.
The AMD chips are very close in performance (a bit slower single-threaded, almost tied multi-threaded) but AMD's integrated graphics are vastly better than Intel's. They're actually viable for low-end gaming, where then Intel chips just fall flat.
The AMD chips are very close in performance (a bit slower single-threaded, almost tied multi-threaded) but AMD's integrated graphics are vastly better than Intel's. They're actually viable for low-end gaming, where then Intel chips just fall flat.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Monday, July 02 2018 11:01 AM (PiXy!)
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