I don’t know what your use-case is, but as I’ve said before, you should look into these Thinkpad models:
2018:
P52s
P52
P72
P1 Gen 1
X1 Extreme Gen 1
2019:
P53s
P53
P73
P1 Gen 2
X1 Extreme Gen 2
2020:
P15 Gen 1
P15s Gen 1
P15v Gen 1
P17 Gen 1
P1 Gen 3
X1 Extreme Gen 3
All of them have the option of GPU. Make sure to ask for the relevant machine type or part number to validate if they really have what’s inside of them - use that information to check on PSREF. Try to get at least a hexacore PC with more than or equal to 16GB of RAM. Avoid soldered RAM if possible - some of the newer ones that I’ve mentioned have them - because that way, you’ll end up having to use RAM in Flex mode.
why not a desktop? you get more performance for the price and you don’t need to worry as much about nvidia power management, which seems like a pain from what I’ve seen
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Actually I kinda need a good GPU without destroying my bank account, I already have an IdeaPad1 R3 7th gen running Arch currently
I don’t know what your use-case is, but as I’ve said before, you should look into these Thinkpad models:
2018:
2019:
2020:
All of them have the option of GPU. Make sure to ask for the relevant machine type or part number to validate if they really have what’s inside of them - use that information to check on PSREF. Try to get at least a hexacore PC with more than or equal to 16GB of RAM. Avoid soldered RAM if possible - some of the newer ones that I’ve mentioned have them - because that way, you’ll end up having to use RAM in Flex mode.
why not a desktop? you get more performance for the price and you don’t need to worry as much about nvidia power management, which seems like a pain from what I’ve seen
Don’t have space for it and I’m concern about power consumption
You can get a SFF PC. You can look at the ol’ Optiplex machines where you just slap in a graphics card and away you go.
This guy just posted a pretty cool example yesterday.