ThinkPad P17 Gen 2

I picked up a P17 gen 2 around a year ago on eBay as an impulse buy. It was great choice. It's hefty, but feels like it emerged from real industrial design. I appreciated how some of the promotional material gave examples of it being using on a offshore oil rig. It also has the best keyboard I have

I've had Linux, Ubuntu, Debian, running on my Lenovo P17 Thinkpad for the past 3 years, flawless. I do what works for me, I also have OS X on a Mac Mini M4, again zero issues. Do what works best for you, and your needs.

I have a Lenovo P17 for work. This old laptop boots maybe 20 seconds faster which is diamond when I’m sat in a car waiting to do some ECU flashing and it’s cold!

Hard to advise on anything: it is planned obsolescense everywhere, in everything , not just computers.Really, even the higher end laptops of MSRP like $3-4K / piece would require you to open them, inspect carefully, maybe remove metallic dust, maybe add forgotten thermal pads (YES, i've seen and don

i do solidworks too and totally get the button preference. the precision 7670 is powerful but yeah the no buttons and heat complaints are legit. look at lenovo thinkpad p17 or p73 - they keep the physical trackpoint buttons and run cooler. hp zbook fury 17 g8 is another solid option. all three have

i feel you on the touchpad buttons - once you get used to them it's hard to go back. that dell precision looks decent on paper but the heat and noise would drive me nuts too. for 17.3 with buttons, check out the HP ZBook Fury 17 G8 - solid workstation with i7 or i9, up to 128gb ram, rtx a-series gpu

I’d say 3-4 years. My Lenovo P17 laptop workstation is still going strong in year 4. I did do a clean reinstall of Windows 11 a year ago as the system had become corrupted but no hardware issues.

I just bought one and run Windows 11 on it. I tried using WSL2 with a Debian distribution but discovered it does not maximize the full power of Linux to run LLMs. Therefore I now use native Windows LM Studio and AnythingLLM to run my models in addition to cloud online LLMs. One hardware quirk, using

No laptop has ever been BIFL. That’s just not feasible when bad actors exist to write malware. It is true that cheap “gaming” laptops don’t last long. They never have. However, Lenovo absolutely does make very reliable machines, and the better ones like the new P-series and T-series remain extremely

Windows laptops do not match Apple quality unfortunately, otherwise they would have been way more expensive than they currently are. You need to understand that. ROG laptops come the closest in build quality and feel to macbooks. HP ZBook Power/Studio/Fury, Lenovo ThinkPad P1/P15/P16/P17 - All of th