Thanks for the video! I was curious how the 2012's were running on some of the newer macOS software. I have a 5K Retina iMac running Sequoia right now quickly and flawlessly but it has a few more hardware advantages. I was curious if it was worth trying to resurrect the 27" 2012 iMac collecting dust under the desk, looks like it could be fun messing around with especially being spec'd a little higher than the one shown running in this video.
60.1 Hz PWM display? If that's right, then this display is a joke. See notebookcheck review. Lenovo's OLED are pretty much useless to many eye concerning people.
For most people, i would personally still recommend mac and iphone. Even though i use a Pixel and a ThinkPad. Apple just does every single basic thing correct. - iPhone doesn't overheat, have great camera, and no weird crashing glitches. - Mac just works, good performance for most people, and enough software support. I cannot say the same for my own devices: - My old Pixel 6 Pro sucks at termals, my new 9 Pro Fold is still bad compared to iPhone. - Shit performance, forget about gaming on Pixel. - ThinkPad with Linux, you can forget about high resolution displays if you have external monitors.
Stated on Mint 5 years ago. Had to hop. Stopped at ArcoLinux running i3. I sometimes reinstall on the backup machine, and sometimes it's with Mint for old times sake. Super solid and a great community.
If someone can explain how to make Steam detect my drives after reformatting and able to select drives for different games I’ll gladly switch. This is where I was stuck and couldn’t get around on how to work then just switched back to windows
I think Apple needs cheaper entry level options, or at the very least, reasonable memory and storage pricing. That being said, I have an M1 MacBook Air and an M1 Max Mac Studio, and can't see myself going by to Intel. My previous main desktop was a 2010 Mac Pro, upgraded in all kinds of ways (my daughter now uses it as a gaining computer), and I still have my 2019 MacBook Pro. In my experience, Apple Silicon runs circles around a lot of things Intel in most places, except raw GPU power, though any of the "Pro" or better SoCs have encoders that speedup rendering. My M1 MacBook Air can even do stuff that my old Mac Pro's RX580 can't do, all at a much lower power budget. Again, if Apple started the Mac mini around 1/5 - 2./3 the price, I think we'd all be much happier.
Mine is 15" with 16 gigs of ram and 1 tb SSD runs smooth on Big Sur and Linux Mint I did try to install Monterey and it worked perfectly fine with OpenCore Legacy
great vid -thanks for making it - just trying to transit from windows rather than uprade h/w for win11 - really fed up with being caught up in there loop... so, can you recommend a reliable - no logs vpn for mint - also are there any issues trying to install tor ?
please make another video about this laptop running linux doing web apps. consider buy one but still doubt about the performance. and it is others distro can perform well to such as kali linux.tq
@@QuinsTechCorner 32 GB It sounds like it's going to take off but it's solid I would definitely throw that in my bag with my 5 batteries the 4g ready sim in the computer star link go for 10 days man my mac would be done these new macs have a good battery buts its not removable this x270 is a apocalypse device and it's solid 2000 dollers 5 years ago only 5 years ago 🤣
@@chellastation In my opinion it's worse than windows 10 in every possible way. I believe it's harder to use, very hostile to users, and feeds into the awful microsoft ecosystem that they've started setting up. Cannot stand it.
I am using a pretty powerful Mac Pro (Mid 2010) tower, desktop computer. I have upgraded my hard drive to an SSD, added RAM and upgraded my video card and also have a capture card for my SLR camera to stream/record video. I also record professional audio with a professional microphone & audio interface. I love this computer and my setup. Here are the specs: 2 x 2.66 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon (I think it is a 12-core processor) Memory: 40 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 Graphics Card: Radeon RX 580 8192 MB I do a ton of video editing/video work and graphic design. I need a fairly powerful machine. I do not want to spend $5k or more on a new computer. I was considering a Mac Studio but that might not even be enough for me and all the inputs I need. A Mac Pro desktop might cost me $10k. I need to decide whether to get a new computer or try OCLP soon. I am ok with technical stuff but not great. What do you guys recommend???
I have 2 Mac Pro mid 2012 both are running great Monterey and Linux Mint. One is 6 cores 3.46 with 64 gigs of ram,another one is a 12 cores 2X3.46 with 128 gigs of ram,both have RX 580 and NVME Samsung 1 TB in Raid,plenty of HD for storage 🤙🤙 I also have a 2019 Mac Pro runs Sonoma perfectly.
I've been using the Gen 1 of this device for about 1.5y now. It's a very well built and powerful machine. The only downside is the lack of proper i/o and that the screen get's easily scratched by the keyboard when the lid is closed.
I found myself in the Linux rabbit hole recently. From youtube comments, OS stats and the fact that 2025 will be end of life for Windows 10, I truly feel like there will be a shift to linux. Maybe not an exodus but more people will convert. I think even among the people that are mildly savy and could easily install linux are not really, because windows 10 is still "OK". I am a software engineer and still use windows, but Win10 will definitely be the last. For development it also a lot more convenient even though Windows released WSL
Laptop market is so bad if this shit is 1800$. For that amount of money i can build 16 core, 256gb ram and still a lot of money to spend. Real price is somewhere around 1000$
Ohhh they’re vastly different machines! It really depends on your use case and budget. If the T480 is specced well enough for your needs i’d be inclined to go for that. This was a bit excessive for me haha.
I have a question, does nvidia drivers compatible with linux? ive been searching for linux distro compatible with nvidia drivers and it says Ubuntu, mint and Pop!Os. Should i do it? I Want a full installation of Linux. Thank you for your response.
Without watching the video. Usually thinkpad's biggest weakness is display quality. Yogas usually have better displays tough lack build quality, personally i use a matebook 14s 2021, relly like the machine but regret not buying the 16. Display wuality is way better than on the thinkpads i've seen, not as good as a macbook pro, but i believe it's not far from an macbook air, and it's 90Hz. Knowing you can spec it with an OLED changes things. Now it's a machine i would consider.
@@QuinsTechCorner depending on how much more I would still go for it. Maybe with dark mode, the thing I don't like about lcds is that their dark mode uses more energy than light since I have to turn the brightness up to see the white letters better. So I usually stick to light mode on my LCD laptop. I'm a sucker for OLED blacks so I would probably spec an oled if given the option. I actually thought my 14s had an oled when testing at the store, but realiser it's black levels are not that great when I got home and used it on a dark room. Still very good bright screen on light environments. Lenovo are really awesome cost/benefit on NA on the used market, but for those in Europe, man does Huawei deliver. Couldn't find competitors for the mate book D at around 450euros at the time or for the matebook at around 850. Of course you could get more powerful or thinner machines, but the package was comparable to yogas and XPSs (tough thicker and heavier) but it also packed more power and better cooling and was still pretty portable. Track pad is the best I've used on a windows machine. Honestly after 2-3 years of use I can recommend for anyone in Europe.
As a ThinkPad user, I do not recommend this. It has almost nothing in common with other ThinkPads aside it's name and the red trackpad. I'd recommend getting either an X1 carbon, X13, or a ThinkPad Yoga if you want a thin-and-light ThinkPad.
