Hello World!

Migrating to my first Thinkpad (E585), something that I've wanted to do for a long time. I've heard a lot of great things and I wanted that sweeeet performance boost over my budget craptop (partially pictured).

> Ryzen 5 2500U
> RX Vega 8 integrated
> 8GB DDR4
> 256GB NVMe
> It's a thinkpad
> Runs Gentoo Linux and I swear I've spent the entire weekend learning and configuring it (my first time)

I love'em Thinkpads

@irene yeah, 256 is too low. At least 1 TiB and 16 G RAM

@irene No, I want SSD all over. No compromise

This weekend, I just received my very first thinkpad as well. It has such a great cpu and ram that my 1tb hdd is a bottleneck. I'm playing with the idea to change it to a 500gb ssd, but one can't have enough storage right? :/

The typing experience aahhh.

Looks and sounds like a good laptop, how much is it?

@irene @asgs 256GB has been more than enough for me, on my old laptop I'm using at most 200GB, though I guess I might use this one for more things since it's more powerful. I do have a 1TB HDD from my old laptop that I can install if the SSD starts to get full.

My original logic was that the SSD will definitely make it snappier, and I tend to trust it more if I'm moving around compared to the possiblity of mechanical failure of an HDD. I honestly don't know if that would actually happen, but I don't want to risk it.

@Kirito-kun It is about $700 as configured, the base price with Ryzen3/4GB/500G HDD/non-IPS/non-FHD is $400.

My Dell Precision had a 1 TB drive. Substituted it with two 1TB SSDs, and I never want to go back.

@kenogo You don't need patience for Gentoo. Not these days anyway.
Just start an update with sane settings, and continue working.
There is no need to wait and watch. 😉

@TRex yeeeaaahhh...

Boy these thinkpads are ugly, but I love them...

I hate how the new and more powerful think pads cost a lot. Since I do a lot of 3d modeling I need a good GPU. Ended up buying an Acer Predator.