ThinkPad X1 Extreme

I mean I have cheaper laptops from 20yrs ago that still work. For $600 I would not buy a X1 Extreme Gen 2 (which is basically the same as my P1 Gen 2). You can go to BestBuy or whatever and buy a $600 brand new Lenovo laptop that isn't a Thinkpad that will spank the hell out of the X1E Gen 2. It won

Don’t buy. The X1E Gen2 is horrible. It had a serious keyboard issue and many other drivers issues. I had one and Lenovo replaced it for a Gen3 under warranty (which I still have, and works okay).

I gave up on Lenovo ThinkPads in 2019, in part because I bought 3 for me and my friends, and they all broke down within a year and were pretty much constant trouble (x1e G1 and g2) and then because I was living in Hong Kong at the time during the crackdown, which the CCP began in July and continues

The Geekbench GPU compute performance is really poor on these GPUs for some reason, relative to the 8 Elite Gen 5. The current numbers we have for the X2-85 wildly vary and it's not a big sample size but I would have expected OpenCL to be significantly better on the Adreno X2-85 than the Adreno 840

I agree that Qualcomm is shooting themselves in the foot with Windows PC market. Lots of hype and enthusiasm and teasers followed my mediocre real world results. It's not even one thing. It's a number of small things that are adding up. The execution is just not there. I've seen this before in my ow

I tried to do what you are trying to do. I got a ThinkPad X1E Gen 3 thinking it is powerful enough with a GTX-1650Ti Max-Q 4GB to atleast play games that were then a few years old. Not really. It failed to even play Ark. My Lenovo Y50-70 from 2015 played games better than the X1E from 2020. As other

Also waiting for P1 Gen 8, I currently have ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen 4i and it is getting a little bit slow now for my work (mobile app engineer) and gaming

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