I’m thinking of buying myself a ThinkPad to run Linux on it. I’ve never owned one, and never ran Linux on anything. What are the differences between these two besides the size and numpad? Should I know something?

  • yojimbo@sopuli.xyz
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    6 months ago

    T480 (not sure about T580) is a strange beast regarding storage implemantation. I’ve seen SATA models (worse, slower) and NVMe models (better, rarer?, faster). I own the SATA one and I believe that good part of the performance difference I see between it and a T14 Gen 2 (running same setup and same tasks ) is on account of the faster storage. Among T14 devices NVMe is I believe standard.

    • kostas@lemm.ee
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      6 months ago

      Don’t all t480 models have both sata and m.2 (made for the smaller 2242 form factor) slots? Or are there full size nvme variants instead of sata?