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1. PC-9801 Enjoyer (pawlicker@bae.st)'s status on Monday, 15-Jul-2024 07:11:32 JST PC-9801 Enjoyer
   A lot of people think keyboards are why old business laptops are so coveted but the truth is they were built like shit brick houses.
   
   Modern laptops were built to be carefully taken care of, not used by normies who will clip shit onto their screen, hold it by the palmrest with the screen open, or push the screen open while not holding the bottom or manhandling the thing.
   
   This is all because they're chasing the dragon of Macbooks after that one infamous ad that IMO, ruined the entire laptop industry.
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   • † top dog :pedomustdie: (dcc@annihilation.social)'s status on Monday, 15-Jul-2024 07:11:27 JST † top dog :pedomustdie:

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     • Forest of Enchantment
     @Pawlicker @Forestofenchantment Never EVER buy a t440
   • PC-9801 Enjoyer (pawlicker@bae.st)'s status on Monday, 15-Jul-2024 07:11:28 JST PC-9801 Enjoyer

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     • Forest of Enchantment
     @Forestofenchantment The T440p (I confused it with the T440) still had high power SKUs though and socketed CPUs. Gaming laptops and mobile workstations also could be ordered with them, but they were delegated to those for this gen.
     
     This is why some people will do touchpad swaps on them, or will hoard up Dell m6800s/m4800s
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   • Forest of Enchantment (forestofenchantment@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Monday, 15-Jul-2024 07:11:29 JST Forest of Enchantment

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     @Pawlicker The Ivy Bridge CPU I posted was the highest-end skew you could get for the 2012 Elitebook, the next year's model's lineup was exclusively 15w varients. Gone were the high end, power hungry skews. Same with Thinkpads, Latitude, etc...
   • PC-9801 Enjoyer (pawlicker@bae.st)'s status on Monday, 15-Jul-2024 07:11:30 JST PC-9801 Enjoyer

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     • Forest of Enchantment
     @Forestofenchantment The QM wasn't a common mobile chip, it was usually used as an option or on the mobile workstations, gaming laptops, higher end consumer laptops, etc.
     
     Chances are you had the dual core back in the day, but there was one difference. You could only swap CPUs on the Haswell PGA systems like the Thinkpad T440 (not the T440s).
     
     With Skylake and Broadwell, you could no longer do this. You were 100% stuck with whatever CPU was soldered unless you had BGA desoldering gear and could put in all that effort for a CPU upgrade (some X220 owners do this for quads).
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   • Forest of Enchantment (forestofenchantment@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Monday, 15-Jul-2024 07:11:31 JST Forest of Enchantment

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     @Pawlicker Laptop manufacturers REALLY started to thin their machines down in 2013. Leading to performance and battery life that was, at best, HALF of what you could get in the last year's model. Compare the most common Ivy-Bridge mobile chips to the most common Haswell chips, and you'll see the performance difference. This first wave of ultraportable business laptops are straight up not viable anymore, their performance is so miserable.
   • † top dog :pedomustdie: (dcc@annihilation.social)'s status on Monday, 15-Jul-2024 07:14:46 JST † top dog :pedomustdie:

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     • Forest of Enchantment
     @Pawlicker @Forestofenchantment Because you should just buy a t480 lol, similar price but its much better.
   • PC-9801 Enjoyer (pawlicker@bae.st)'s status on Monday, 15-Jul-2024 07:14:47 JST PC-9801 Enjoyer

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     • Forest of Enchantment
     @dcc @Forestofenchantment what's the issue with that?
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