= Lenovo ThinkPad P14s gen4 amd
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= P14s
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Bought: November 2023 during Black Friday sale for £1,323.00 to be <Ciro Santilli>'s main personal laptop.
Six years after, and we are 2x on every key spec (except processor Hz ;-) at about 1/2 the price and 1/2 the weight (though smaller 14" screen for greater portability), so not bad! Customized to max out each hardware spec:
Specs:
* Processor: AMD Ryzen™ 7 PRO 7840U Processor (3.30 GHz up to 5.10 GHz)
* Operating System: No Operating Systemselected upgrade
* Operating System Language: No Operating System Languageselected upgrade
* Microsoft Productivity Software: None
* Memory: 64 GB LPDDR5X-6400MHz (Soldered)selected upgrade. Specs at: https://www.lenovo.com/gb/en/p/accessories-and-software/memory-and-storage/memory-and-storage-hard-drives/4xb1d04758 quotes "64 Gbps", i.e. 8 GB/s. `dd count=1M if=/dev/zero of=tmp` gives only 255 MB/s however.
* Solid State Drive: 2 TB SSD M.2 2280 PCIe Gen4 Performance TLC Opalselected upgrade
* Display: 14" WUXGA (1920 x 1200), IPS, Anti-Glare, Touch, 45%NTSC, 300 nits, 60Hz
* Graphic Card: Integrated Graphics
The <Ubuntu 23.10> "About system GUI describes its graphics as: Radeon 780M Graphics × 16, which e.g. https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/radeon-780m.c4020 documents as running the <RDNA 3> <microarchitecture>.
* Camera: 1080P FHD RGB/IR Hybrid with Microphone
* Color: Thunder Black
* Factory Color Calibration: No Factory Color Calibration
* Wireless: Qualcomm Wi-Fi 6E NFA725A 2x2 AX & Bluetooth® 5.1 or above
* Integrated Mobile Broadband: No Wireless WAN
* Ethernet: Wired Ethernet
* Near Field Communication: No NFC
* Fingerprint Reader: Fingerprint Reader
* Keyboard: Black - English (EU)selected upgrade
* Battery: 4 Cell Li-Polymer 52.5Whselected upgrade
* Power Cord: 65W USB-C Slim 90% PCC 3pin AC Adapter - UKselected upgrade
* Electronic Privacy Filter: No ePrivacy Filter
* Adobe Elements: None
* Adobe Acrobat: None
* Adobe Creative Cloud: None
* Security Software: None
* Cloud Security Software: No Cloud Security Software
* Warranty: 3 Year Courier or Carry-in
Identifiers:
* <Ethernet> <MAC address>: fc:5c:ee:24:fb:b4
* <Wi-Fi> <MAC address>: 04:7b:cb:cc:1b:10
Upon arrival:
* Weight: 1490 g
* Charger weight: 323 g
* Firmware according to `sudo dmidecode -t bios`:
``
Vendor: LENOVO
Version: R2FET33W (1.13 )
Release Date: 09/08/2023
``
Buy research:
* https://www.phoronix.com/review/thinkpad-p14s-gen4 says Ubuntu running fine
* Intel vs amd: the Intel ones could come with a discrete rtx A500 GPU. GPU likely makes laptop heavier and less power efficient. And both have basically the same benchmark which is crazy:
* https://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu.php?gpu=RTX+A500+Laptop+GPU&id=4649
* https://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu.php?gpu=Radeon+780M&id=4818
So the only downside is not being able to run CUDA.
* thought about Yoga or other Ultrabook options, but 2x price at same specs, so nah...
Log:
2024-01-17: firmware update:
``
Vendor: LENOVO
Version: R2FET36W (1.16 )
Release Date: 10/24/2023
``
Actually fixed performance mode: https://askubuntu.com/questions/604720/setting-to-high-performance/1343879\#1343879