RE: I've never modded a laptop before...
11-28-2021, 01:09 PM (This post was last modified: 11-28-2021, 01:13 PM by Dartz.)
11-28-2021, 01:09 PM (This post was last modified: 11-28-2021, 01:13 PM by Dartz.)
That wouldn't be far off what I paid for my current laptop - with twice the core count and a dedicated GPU.
I know there's a cost associated with small-scale manufacturing, but it's still fairly pricey. One would have to consider if the other features in the Thinkpad's chassis would be worth it. But more than that, it would need to be asked if the battery, power supply, or other components that wouldn't be swapped would be up to the task.
That said, I'm all for reviving old things and keeping them running as long as possible, and Tiger Lake is still current - it's less than a year old
(I have an old Thinkpad X20, with the original DVD drive and floppy-dock assembly with dedicated serial and parallel ports. It still ran as late as 2014/215, on a 600Mhz Pentium III and 192Mb of RAM. It ran Xubuntu Linux, could do most things and made an excellent typing laptop. It finally let the smoke out when I tried to power it on for shits and giggles a couple of years ago. When that thing was new, Limp Bizkit was rolling and the World Trade Centre came as a pair)
I know there's a cost associated with small-scale manufacturing, but it's still fairly pricey. One would have to consider if the other features in the Thinkpad's chassis would be worth it. But more than that, it would need to be asked if the battery, power supply, or other components that wouldn't be swapped would be up to the task.
That said, I'm all for reviving old things and keeping them running as long as possible, and Tiger Lake is still current - it's less than a year old
(I have an old Thinkpad X20, with the original DVD drive and floppy-dock assembly with dedicated serial and parallel ports. It still ran as late as 2014/215, on a 600Mhz Pentium III and 192Mb of RAM. It ran Xubuntu Linux, could do most things and made an excellent typing laptop. It finally let the smoke out when I tried to power it on for shits and giggles a couple of years ago. When that thing was new, Limp Bizkit was rolling and the World Trade Centre came as a pair)
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