It was a worthy successor building upon a great first game. The map and world design is top notch. Especially the switching between to interleaved time lines in the now abandoned manor and moving walls in the crazy inventors mansion.
The chaos/karma system also functions as a good counterweight to the "stealth archer" game design problem so player aren't heavily incentivised toward clearing levels by separating enemies and killing them one by one thereby removing all obstacles until the emptied out game is nothing but a boring walking simulator.
HDMI 2.1 is useless already, how many monitors halve the bandwidth of their 2.1 connector? Standards need enforcing, none of this fake HDMI 2.x bullshit.
Not buying anything Lenovo made ever again. T14 G1 was the worst computer I've ever had the displeasure of using. Extremely spotty USB C connection, throttling to 0.2 Ghz for no reason with no fix, and just terribly slow all around. Shame since I loved the T450s dearly.
I'm using an X1 Carbon Gen 11, and for my purposes at least, it's an improvement over every previous generation.
I'd love to switch to a Framework one day, but I'm not willing to use a laptop without mouse buttons. (I don't care about the TrackPoint at all; I do care about having physical mouse buttons.)
I've been keeping a list of problems with my gen10:
1. The laptop overheats easily. It is usually hot to the point of being painful to touch. It has melted the adhesive of the rubber strip on the bottom, which has fallen off.
2. The trackpoint is malfunctioning. Several times a day, the mouse cursor will jump to the top of the screen, and be stuck there until I wiggle the trackpoint fully in all directions.
3. There's coil whine and clicking from some part of the power intake.
4. Battery life is extremely poor, usually on the order of ~2 hours.
5. Sometimes the trackpad buttons will stop working. You have to put the laptop to sleep and wake it up again to get them back.
I switched a couple years ago from X1 after I spent months without a working mic and had to get my screen replaced twice and it still didn't work.
I went with the ASUS Zenbook. It's not perfect in terms of Linux drivers or support but they are built solidly. I would pick them again over Dell, HP or the Chinese rebrands.
I've happily used Asus for the past 5 years. Great linux support and no serious hardware issues. The only negative is that one of the arrow buttons came of my ExpertBook B5 after 1 year but it was easily glued back. Otherwise linux works like a dream and the price was good as well.
Anecdotal, I've had an Asus ROG laptop for close to 10 years now and it's still mint except for the battery. Aluminium frame and solid with Linux (even bluetooth works on Ubuntu, imagine that). I'd replace the battery and keep using it, but I'm not sure if it's worth the investment at this point given that it's DDR3. But when I go out to buy a new one, it'll probably be a TUF or something.
Asus may have deplorable predatory customer service, but if I buy the thing from a local reseller they have to deal with that instead of me if something goes wrong, so it doesn't really affect me haha.
You could quite easily use a t420 keyboard in a t440 with a few pins masked which was the last traditional thinkpad keyboard.
Actually I may be getting the numbers wrong, it could be the t430 that I was thinking about. It's been rather a long time since I did any brain surgery on thinkpads.
Hows the build quality with framework laptops? I fear that making it so modular might have required engineering tradeoffs with regard to build quality and endurance.
I got one in March 2022 and it's still kicking. Had to replace the heat sink and the keyboard this year. The support is kinda slow on the response, but the hardware itself is pretty nice.
I have a P14s G4 AMD that I am very pleased with. My only issue is the Qualcomm-made Wi-Fi that still doesn't work properly after a year because Qualcomm engineers can't figure out how to write a driver.
I rewrote part of their camera stack once to find that they hadn't managed cache coherence for the MIPI DMA, and didn't connect the coherency domains to handle it in hardware. Ticket probably still not being worked in their support portal.
Very rarely I see a little horizontal strip of corruption in my camera photos and roll my eyes.
Lenovo makes many laptops; some are good, some are bad.
This applies to pretty much ever manufacturer. Worked in a computer store for many years, and every manufacturer had some models with high return rates, but also models with low/normal return rates.
Saying "I will never buy $x because I had a bad experience with a bad model" is almost always a mistake IMHO.
What does matter is how they deal with the bad models. Some brands were definitely a lot better than others, and I generally advised customers based on that.
Yeah, 155H + RTX 500 Ada.
I use it primarily docked, so I don't really have data for efficiency/battery life. I did stress it with a Linux kernel compilation (`make -j22`), it was a while back, but I saw that the CPU frequency was up at 4GHz at the start, but dropped to 2GHz for the majority of the compilation, despite temps being in the 60-70°C range. I didn't try to troubleshoot it further since it's a work laptop and I don't compile huge projects on a regular basis. In terms of general system performance, I'm using it with Fedora KDE and it has been great.
Sorry to hear that. I actually cheaped out and for the first time went for the L-series, L14 G4, but with Ryzen. Very happy overall, pretty much no issues whatsoever, running Debian. I miss the old keyboard, though.
You ever go through the Reddit blackout of 2015 or the API scandal of 2022? It's a common phenomenon. You move to sites and the people who are the most engaged will be talking about the reason they moved and their dissatisfaction.
It'll calm down in a month. Maybe. The current atmosphere isn't going away in a month like the API protests.
After Visual Studio 2008, they rewrote the UI in WPF and started writing large components of the program in C#. This dramatically regressed performance, especially on a cold start (it runs decently if you've had the program open for a while). I'd probably still be using Visual Studio 2008, except it limits you to C89 and C++03.
C# is working hard to be Rust-like in certain areas of performance. Part of Visual Studio's problem is that they can't yet take advantage of it in some key areas because they are still dependent on the Legacy Framework and Legacy WPF and have to migrate to modern .NET.
Cold boot perf is a good yard stick but it’s not that important in your workflow. Except when it crashes. They really should work on that. Quality as a feature.
LNL is a great paper launch but I have yet to see a reasonably priced LNL laptop so far. Nowadays I can find 16GB Airs and X Elite laptops for 700-900 bucks, and once you get into 1400 territory just pay a bit more for M4 MBPs which are far superior machines.
And also, they compete in the same price bracket as Zen 5, which are more performant with not that much worse battery life.
