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Lenovo ThinkPad P14s Gen 5 Mobile Workstation Laptop (21ME001MUS) on sale for $2669 - $1550 when you apply eCoupon code
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Specs:
- AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 8840HS 8-Core Processor
- 14" 2.8K 2880x1800 OLED 100%DCI-P3 400 nits 120Hz Display
- 64GB DDR5-5600MHz SODIMM (2 x 32GB) Memory
- 1TB SSD M.2 2280 PCIe Gen4 Performance TLC Opal
- Integrated AMD Radeon 780M Graphics
- Backlit Keyboard
- Wi-Fi 6E NFA725A 2x2 AX + Bluetooth 5.3
- Windows 11 Pro
- Ports:
- 2x USB-C Thunderbolt 4 w/ Power Delivery 3.0 & DisplayPort 1.4
- 2x USB-A Gbps
- 1x HDMI 2.1
- 1x Audio Combo Jack
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It's expired, but if you play around with the coupon codes from this (current) deal, you may get it down to around $950
I'm studying cs in collge and my 16gb ram m1 macbook air runs laps around the 32gb version of this laptop with twice the battery life and build quality. I have both in my hands right now and other than gaming, my 4 year old macbook is the better product.
Here's the thing...you think the RAM in the M-series chip is some sort of magical RAM? It's not. It's normal RAM like everyone else uses, except they put in in a "package" (SoC) that contains the CPU, GPU and RAM. BIG DEAL. It's still RAM. And to be honest, it's probably cheaper to make it that way than have to package it into little chips that need to then be soldered on a board. So like everything Apple does, they do it to save money.
Did you know the M1 chip in your MBA uses older LPDDR4X-4266 RAM, while this ThinkPad used faster DDR5-5600 (which you can actually remove and upgrade with more). And, I've got a MBP 16 M1 Pro and have used this P14s and have a P16s and prefer the Lenovo over the MacBook. That's a personal preference. Everyone has their preference. Spec-wise, everything about this Lenovo beats the MBA except possibly battery life.
1. Anti-reflective OLED
2. HDR peak brightness 616 nits
3. External Thunderbolt is 4K 120 Hz
I maxed out all non-SSD upgrades and warranty. It was ordered through a CB website from the Beneplace Exclusive Offer section of Lenovo.com
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Any Zoom experience with this unit, and how is the video image quality that projects you? Thank you.
Going back to topic, yes It is a bit magicial because the system as a whole can do more than its windows counterpart with the same amount of ram, hence my original comment.
Yes you are right M1 is fast because of the multi-die package design that contains both the actual processor die and the DRAM, but designing and producing all of this on 5nm nodes was revolutionary for the entry level laptop segment at the time, hardly a costsaving measure with the immense upfront costs. You forgot to mention faster memory retrieval, just looking at memory frequency alone isn't enough. And overall, you are only looking at this from a hardware standpoint which only shows a fraction of why rams on Mac's are 'magical'
Mac soc's are fast because of the tight integration between the hardware and the os. Reference Counting (a memory garbage collection technique) is built right into the apple soc, essentially hardware-accelerating every app running on the OS, including the emulated x86-64. ARM uses a 16K swap file, vs Windows which uses a 4K swap. Throw in other architectural changes and Macs are pretty rapid when using swap. It's still consuming the RAM and still swapping, just not as quick to be bogged down by it.
Apple's quality control of software is superb, especially on memory consumption. That's why iPhones have half the ram but can run faster and do more than any flagship Android phone
Macos will aggressively garbage collect ui elements in apps, that windows won't. So apps that aren't in use, will more quickly use less ram. Apple compounds this by making the definition of 'not in use' also include apps that are open, running, but not visible on the screen - minimized or even just behind another window. And finally, apps that are not in use get reduced scheduling on the cpu, so they need to be loaded into ram to run less frequently. All in all, this means that macos feels much much faster while doing equivalent tasks on windows.
Macos is much better when it comes to swap and actually managing what's using ram. It will happily dump stuff into swap if it's not being used whereas windows applications take up more ram anyway and the os isn't as efficient in swap. Apple will be optimized for such processes. You have to understand windows is made to run on varying hardware. It's not about memory limits. Specs aren't everything like you claim.
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