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
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    2 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)

    • LalSalaamComrade@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Framework 13 is unfortunately not a workstation replacement. Framework 16 is, with options for the 7040HS CPU, but they’re:

      • not available as second-hand
      • too expensive
      • RAM is limited only to 32GB
      • 5PACEBAR@lemmy.world
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        2 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)

          • Mazesecle@lemm.eeEnglish
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            20 days 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

            Edit: just a few days after making this comment, I received an email from Framework that they started shipping to Greece, among other countries!