My W540 is being unkind to my back. It’s a powerful little–err medium sized thing. So, I’ve been looking at the Lenovo P40 Yoga, which as a dual-core and a little GPU, yet
The issue is, I can’t put them side by side, so a made a quicky drawing and pasted decals on them.
This is not my best work, but it serves to illustrate my sickness, that I didn’t think twice about modeling something before I bought it.
Sort of on subject: and I (hides) did this weight comparison with the adapters.
Thanks for the like Willem for validating my madness : )
I added the distentions of my old 12" X220, for good measure.
14" Laptops are uncommon. I wanted to see how it scales both horizontally, and vertically. The vertical dimension was hard because I tried to visualize it both with and without the external battery.
What I learned is: while it is going to be a compromise, it will a fairly equal compromise. Also, it’s not as large as I feared. Though, I found the old (smallest x220) 12.5 a little confining at times.
Notice the dragline midpoint locator, and two copies of align icons, as well as hide/show lock/unlock. I use these all constantly.
Dell xps 15 9550; best of all worlds except cost…
The 9550 is a light machine for 15"
A lot of Dells like the Precisions have a good rep. Dell Alienwares are good machines, too. Unlike Asus’s, the keyboard’s aren’t taped on : )
Other than the weight and a bit of size, I’ve been pretty happy with my W540. I am going to miss this screen.
I tend to walk to my local coffee shop to work on things. At home, I do technical reading, Wikipedia binging, and instructional videos so the foldy screen is a plus. I do Photoshop, so having a pen for masking and knock-outs should be handy. I write, so for proofreading in tablet mode. it should be nice, big but nice. For music recording, in the time, my eye looks from the screen to a keyboard or a mouse, and I am already falling out of the moment, so any touch-screen is cool, well, for 3D printing too.
I’ve never had a computer with a 14" screen. 15’s are the new 17’s. 13’s are the 15s. 17’s are a nice place, err computer, but I’m not carrying it 3 miles in Silicon Valley.
Oddly, I did a lot of Rhino 3D on 12.5" x220, though the intel integrated 2000 boat-anchor–I mean GPU had issues with object rotations. This seems strange, but I was nice to have the room on the table while reverse engineering something.
[The project I am finishing up is so large, rotations are sluggish even on my desktop anyway. In 4 years, intel managed to make a quad almost 30% faster than a 2600k. We’re not even getting 10% a tick or tock, whereas GPU’s are 250% faster in that same time.
If only AMD Zen could challenge intel things would get better, or there’s not much to look forward to.
14nm FinFET is here, and then what?
I keep telling people that we need better single-core performance for lightly threaded apps, but really they don’t even understand why I couldn’t just do design or even 4K video-edit in the cloud. Sigh. No, you need gigabtyes per second bandwidth, and why work to kill the personal computer anyway.]
Sorry for the late reply, but I’ve been real busy with all sorts of things. I’m totally with you on the Intel issue; AMD has not hosted a challenge until recently (hopefully) with the new Zen cpu. The big deal with CPU’s is not so much Rhino per say than it is with rendering in Flamingo which uses multiple cores. I built a machine almost four years ago now that has an Intel 3930K with six cores that simply blew away my older home built Intel QX 6700. Time is coming soon to build another as while More’s law is broken, cpu tech has improved dramatically in the time since I built my current system. Cheers, R
