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To be honest I never had Issues with Battery Life on my ThinkPad. I've gotten out 10-12 hours with the 96Wh Battery and never felt the need for much more.

I think most people who are so wowed by Macs bought just a garbage Windows Machine (e.g. almost everything from Asus and Acer) before and then splurged the money for a nice one, so obviously it's so much better in comparison.


Is that under Windows or Linux? It’s not awful, but depending on usage a MacBook can do 16h+ with the same size battery, especially if put into low power mode, which is substantially better.

The smaller 13” Air also gets similar numbers despite its smaller battery, which is a big deal for people who don’t want to lug around a 15/16” laptop.


How heavy is that ThinkPad?

1.8kg I know it's a chunker

Where do I get a Laptop with a Nvidia GPU for 600$ ?

I'm right now in the Market for a new Laptop, because I need way more GPU Power than my T470 provides, and to be honest the MacBookPros are quite competitively priced compared to the P-ThinkPads with Nvidia Cards. (Both around 3000€) They also finally offer a matte screen option

The only thing holding me back right now is the soldered SSD, RAM (and shitty Linux support).

It was quite nice being able to upgrade RAM, SSD and replace the Battery on it. Otherwise it wouldn't have lasted for 9 years


That's an awesome idea to get a bricked MacBook Neo really fast because those idiots soldered the SSD inside

Apple has been soldering the SSD into MacBooks for over 10 years now, and most 10 year old MacBooks still have a working SSD.

Not if you're powerusing it like in the Article and relying heavily on Swap.

Also there are countless reports of bricked M1 8GB MacBook Airs that are bricked because the SSD used up it's write cycles

https://youtu.be/0qbrLiGY4Cg?si=mjKn2oLjqAb36hPU


That's not what the video insinuates.

Yes you're right. I meaned a different video, but I can't find it right now. I've looked it up, and back then MacOS had a bug which exacerbated that issue. Here is an article

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/02/23/m1-mac-users-report-exc...


You originally stated "Also there are countless reports of bricked M1 8GB MacBook Airs that are bricked because the SSD used up it's write cycles"

Do you have a source for these "countless bricked SSD's"?



Not sure about the ssd in particular but the neo is apparently pretty modular

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5k7Lv7f-5CQ


Fantastic tear down. Thank you. Amazing for Apple. I hope this is the trend going forward but probably not. But still a gazillion screws? I just replaced the keyboard for my old hp elitebook with two screws.

I don't care about a gazillion screws, if it's serviceable in the End.

If Apple would build their laptops serviceable like ThinkPads I would buy one today.


It seems like they’re starting to learn the cost of being too integrated.

They’ve slowly been moving towards making it easier to repair individual broken parts. I’m very happy to see that a new keyboard doesn’t require replacing the entire top case. That was just crazy.


Now the Mods from Google removed all posts regarding the Quota Changes lol

They also bullshit you with the per-Model-Quota Limits. When I hit my Claude Quota Limit it blocked all Premium Models (Gemini, GPT-120B-OSS) for multiple days

I don't get why they even bother to show per-Model-Quotas then?


It's completely irrelevant if the consumer won in any of this.

It's about if the United States is a country that respects the rule of law, or some failed 3rd world state, where the law is only respected if the dear leader likes it.

The first one is much better for economic development


In the lawsuit, no.

But this will only further build up the low trust society when it feels like consumers only lose and never gains any of society's benefits.


Well, their fault for voting Trump.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes


I mean half the voters didn't vote for Trump.

But I guess yes, first past the post is a stupid game.


Sounds like you guys need some democracy

Those who didn't vote are just as guilty of enabling him

You mean reimburse the money he wasn't entitled to at any time?

Are you sure?

The Chinese traffic Surveillance cameras also photograph who is inside the Vehicles


yes, the driver, but not the passengers. I doubt he drives his own car.

If the cameras can see the driver, they can also see the front passenger. And who gets in or out of the stopped car. Istael/US probably analyzed months of footage to establish patterns and uncover their habbits and schedule.

Most VIP situations, the VIP person sits in the back. Luxury car brands like bentley or limos are specifically designed for a comfortable back seat. The backseat typically has much darker windows

Yes but they also make a show when they get in or out of the vehicle. Several bodyguards flanking them, opening doors for them, the driver getting out of the vehicle, red carpets etc. Khamenei was also wearing distinctive clothing to make it even more obvious.

neat, but most people have this show on private property and not on the street where the public cameras are pointing.

The commerce secretary has in this case a huge conflict of interest in pushing for these illegal policies in the first place

The commerce secretary wasn't the one pushing for them in the first place. The president was.

I mean, look, there's plenty of conflicts of interest, and stuff that sure looks like graft, and claims of people making insane amounts of money off of stuff. But in this case, the commerce secretary's options were 1) do the tariffs or 2) get fired. Minion? Sure. Minion without the self-respect or ethics to quit when they were being told to do unconstitutional stuff? Also sure. Pushing these policies, as though they had agency in the matter? No.


It's enriching himself on the taxpayers expense.

Or would you trust someone on advising you, that has a pretty huge financial interest in proposing you policies that will fail because they are illegal?


What evidence do you have that those tariffs were proposed by him?

He bragged about it, and certainly didn't spoke out against them

So I pitch these ideas, and he says, ‘Let’s do it.’ ” Why not replace the I.R.S. with an External Revenue Service, which will collect tariffs and other levies from foreign sources instead of taxing citizens?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/07/28/donald-trumps-...


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