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.

  • Mazesecle@lemm.eeEnglish
    411·
    4 months ago

    Just leaving this here in case you don’t know: there are also the Framework laptops, which are designed to be modular, upgradable, and have easy to buy replacement parts.

    They even sell motherboards, so you can now get a e.g. Intel Core Ultra motherboard for your 3-4 year old laptop.

    Of course It’s a bit more expensive than a used 10 year old Thinkpad, but it kind of competes with other high end laptops, and it is cheaper especially when you consider it’s designed to last more

    (Not a sponsored post, just glad there is a company that makes such products, and that when I broke a part I could just go to their store and order a replacement instead of searching for serial numbers on random online stores etc like I’ve done before)

        • papertowels@lemmy.one
          11·
          4 months ago

          As someone who desperately wants a fair phone but it doesn’t ship here, consider what it means to buy a repairable device when replacement parts are not easily obtained.

          • Mazesecle@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            4 months ago

            I used Aramex’s shop&ship (both times), I found them from Courier Center’s website.

            The cost was a bit much, but nothing compared to the laptop itself (and also I really didn’t want to buy yet another laptop that in a few years would be obsolete and unrepairable).

            The laptop’s order shipping was €70 and it took ~10 days after it arrived at their location. You can compare the shipping cost to/from various countries, my DIY package was 4.5kg

      • 5PACEBAR@lemmy.world
        3·
        4 months ago

        agreed that those machines can be expensive but all framework models can absolutely have 64 GB of RAM

        source : me, the fw13 that I use as a server and my fw16 both have 64 GB (I love those machines)

          • bruhduh@lemmy.world
            1·
            4 months ago

            Each slot supports as much as you can fit there, i have netbook with single ddr3 slot, it was said that this slot is limited to 2gb, i fitted 8gb and it ran just fine

              • PoopBuffet@lemmy.world
                2·
                4 months ago

                Can confirm. Happened to me with my old laptop. Tried to upgrade it with some rescued RAM and it refused to use all of it. It would only use up to the laptops advertised max.

                (Not the brand in question, but motherboards can definitely limit the RAM utilisation)