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T480 or T580? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm thinking of buying myself a ThinkPad to run Linux on it. I've never owned one, and never ran Linux on anything. What are the differences between these two besides the size and numpad? Should I know something?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

There shouldn't be much aside from cooking and screen size. This being said, in the U.S. at least the jump to the E14/P15 gen1 on the aftermarket isn't that much in terms of price and the performance has a significant improvement.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

The full T14 gen 1 goes for about the same price as a T480. Unless you really crave the dual batteries or dual ram slots the T14 is a better machine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

T480 (not sure about T580) is a strange beast regarding storage implemantation. I've seen SATA models (worse, slower) and NVMe models (better, rarer?, faster). I own the SATA one and I believe that good part of the performance difference I see between it and a T14 Gen 2 (running same setup and same tasks ) is on account of the faster storage. Among T14 devices NVMe is I believe standard.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Don't all t480 models have both sata and m.2 (made for the smaller 2242 form factor) slots? Or are there full size nvme variants instead of sata?