Tall Timbers
Imperfect but forgiven
My current laptop is dying. It's a Lenovo Legion Y520 and was good while it lasted. I've noticed over the last few years that the notebooks I'm paying around $1000 and less for seem to experience some point of failure within 2 to 4 years. There was a period of time maybe around 15 years ago that I could purchase very inexpensive laptops for the kids and those things would seemingly last forever. Only the forward march of ever more capable technology would eventually require they be replaced.
Normally I buy a new laptop that meets my requirements before I need to replace the old one. I get it at a good sale price and am happy. This time around I didn't have the luxury of time because our old desktops at home are dropping like flies (they've all had very long lives now) so I don't have the backup systems I like to have. I could not find what I consider to be a reasonably priced Laptop that had everything I wanted... specifically I need at a minimum of 2 terabytes storage and more would be highly desireable and there was just nothing out there at all in the price range I search in and even at higher prices there wasn't much with that amount of storage.
So, uncharacteristically for me, I just dropped a big chunk of change on what I hope is a laptop that will last beyond when I start hankering to replace it. It'll be about a week before it arrives. Here's some of the specs:
Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Extreme Gen 3
Intel Core i9-10885H (8C / 16T, 2.4 / 5.3GHz, 16MB)
Memory: 64 GB DDR4 3200 RAM Storage: 2 X 2 TB SSD PCIe, NVMe
Display: 15.6" OLED Touch Screen backlight 3840 x 2160 / Ultra HD 4K Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Ti / Intel UHD Graphics
Normally I buy a new laptop that meets my requirements before I need to replace the old one. I get it at a good sale price and am happy. This time around I didn't have the luxury of time because our old desktops at home are dropping like flies (they've all had very long lives now) so I don't have the backup systems I like to have. I could not find what I consider to be a reasonably priced Laptop that had everything I wanted... specifically I need at a minimum of 2 terabytes storage and more would be highly desireable and there was just nothing out there at all in the price range I search in and even at higher prices there wasn't much with that amount of storage.
So, uncharacteristically for me, I just dropped a big chunk of change on what I hope is a laptop that will last beyond when I start hankering to replace it. It'll be about a week before it arrives. Here's some of the specs:
Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Extreme Gen 3
Intel Core i9-10885H (8C / 16T, 2.4 / 5.3GHz, 16MB)
Memory: 64 GB DDR4 3200 RAM Storage: 2 X 2 TB SSD PCIe, NVMe
Display: 15.6" OLED Touch Screen backlight 3840 x 2160 / Ultra HD 4K Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Ti / Intel UHD Graphics
- 2 x USB 3.2 Gen 1 (1 always on)
- 2 x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C with Intel Thunderbolt 3 (Power Delivery, DisplayPort, Data transfer)
- DisplayPort*
- 4-in-1 SD card reader
- Headphone / mic combo
- HDMI 2.0
- Intel® Wi-Fi 6 AX201 802.11AX (2 x 2)
- Bluetooth® 5.1