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What is your previous/other laptop brand? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I see a lot of anecdotal comments about users' past or present Thinkpads on this sub so I'm curious how many FW13 buyers have come from a Thinkpad or have a Thinkpad as a second machine and how many have migrated from other brands.

I see the appeal of Framework for the old-school Thinkpad tinkerer. The FW13 will be the first non-Thinkpad I've owned since the old 570 back in the 1990s (although, granted, I've always been able to get EPP pricing on Thinkpads, which has influenced by purchases). My other laptop is a Gen4 Thinkpad P1, which is too big and power hungry to really be a good travel machine, but I will probably replace it with another powerful Thinkpad P-series laptop sometime in the next year for all the editing I do at home.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I'm coming from Thinkpads. I was running older models until the T495s dropped, but honestly that generation of Ryzen left a lot to be desired. I've been waiting for System76 to unveil their custom laptop for a while now, but I've grown impatient and want something to hold me over until then (unless I end up loving the Framework in which case I'll probably just invest into upgrades.)

I'm really hopeful that the more recent Ryzen mobile chipsets are actually usable and not a constant throttling mess, my T495s was awful.