for anyone who wants to offer actual advice: its a lenovo thinkpad t450 with a soldered i5-5300U that hits over 90C when running cargo compiles. I have changed the thermal paste and it didn’t do much.

  • loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    A few months ago when I had to replace my shitty HP laptop from 2018, I found a secondhand Thjnkpad model from 2013 for 90€ which was better in every way.

    • LalSalaamComrade@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      3 months ago

      But a processor from 2013 is kinda whack, and there’s no physical quad-core with logical octa-core, so that kinda defeats the purpose, right? Honestly, I’d love to have a Thinkpad with a high TDP workstation processor that is good enough to build NodeJS/Rust from source in a few hours, and no dGPU.

      • loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works
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        3 months ago

        I didn’t say it was good in the absolute, but that i5 processor from 2013 was better than the Intel Celeron processor from 2018, I checked. Yeah, my previous laptop wasn’t the best of 2018; neither I or anyone in my direct family knew a lot about computers then.

        • LalSalaamComrade@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          3 months ago

          That’s a fair point. I’m assuming that you’re not using these devices for development and stuff, maybe just browsing around the internet?