locals are INFURIATED

For some reason I’m picturing Sydney Mecham, only that it’s actually IN Sydney

I guess France, although we kinda hate each other

Teens be teens, I guess? Also, aren’t those commonly known as methbikes?

I’ve got no idea. The original 400 was 6, the revision had 4 (lacking the powered pins) and 800 had 9. The only connector I can think of from the top of my head that uses 8 is mini-USB.

FireWire mentioned

It won’t. The most that can happen is that every change gets reverted after a system update.

It’s basically a bunch of scripts to tweak performance; you can watch the very good explanation by its creator . It does boost performance quite a bit.

Huh, runs totally fine on my OLED Deck with the CryoUtilities enhancements.

That doesn’t mean much when it comes to emulation tbh. If the emulator is shit, power won’t help.

It has no trouble playing Super Mario Wonder at full speed and 1080p, that’s good enough in my books.

No backup, no mercy.

Got Eden on my Steam Deck, runs so good. Nintendo could learn a thing or two tbh.

Emulators are legal, there’s enough precedent for that, Nintendo’s just butthurt that their games run better on 3rd party emulators than they do on their own hardware.

It’s interesting that, reading through their original review, they didn’t seem so think that the APU was lacking in performance for what it’s supposed to be. It doesn’t even perform that much worse that a real 7430U in their synthetic benchmarks.

Seems like the AMD models are always more of an afterthought to lenovo; when I bought my P14s Gen 5 the AMD version still was based on an older chassis design compared to the all new intel design

The A18 Pro seems to be better than the M1 only at single core performance.

Speaking of cores; the A18 Pro variant in the Neo seems to have 1 GPU core less than in the iPhone 16 Pro. Kinda weird.

It is soldered to the board

Because it’s a new-ish standard that few manufacturers use (I’m only aware of Dell and Lenovo using it) and thus, it could be harder and more expensive to replace them than normal DDR5 sticks (although those are expensive right now as well so eh).

But ultimately, they offer more benefits than drawbacks.

Ripper job on Lenovo’s part; I’d give them flack for using LPCAMM2 instead of SODIMM but honestly, it is ultimately the better choice for laptops and it’s totally cool to see it instead of soldered RAM.

Ideally they’d bring back the old keyboard layout based on the T25, but that’s more or less nitpicking at this point. The Powerbridge battery system would be cool to see make a comeback and a swappable WIFI module would be cool (they kinda brush is off in the article but I think replacing and upgrading the WIFI module would be a nice thing).

My personal problem are the speakers; although ever since getting my hands on an M1 Pro MacBook I’m kinda spoiled in that regard.

It’d make for a great student laptop, reminds me of the old polycarbonate MacBooks actually. They did cut corners a lot, but retained all the niceties you’d expect from a MacBook.

And they finally added some colour; could’ve have gone with more vibrant colours IMO but it’s better than nothing.

I gotta say, I do like fuzzy wombats as well^^

I would be kinda impressed that Apple is finally offering something that’s good value, but 8GB of RAM? ehhhhhh. It’s probably still a decent-ish deal, I don’t really know how good a phone SoC would handle anything more than light tasks, though.