ThinkPad P50

While we're openly grieving: I have two laptops provided by my employer. One is a Dell 5550 w/32 GB memory, and the other is an 8 yr old Lenovo P50 w/32 GB memory. The Dell is the one my employer insists remain on W11 and all the management goo. The Lenovo is what i use mostly which has Linuxmint 22

Most probably yes. Once laptops start doing glitches after the BIOS update, it is almost always a death sentence. Rolling back BIOS wont, help cause some chips at the motherboard are being flashed together with the main BIOS and they won't go back. It is the planned obsolescence over the reliable ha

A Xeon-equipped workstation that draws 100W under load will never get good battery life, especially if factoring in battery degradation that's inevitable on a eight-year-old system. Read the contemporary notebookcheck review for some pretty accurate data on what to expect. Be aware that the machine