On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 05:04:36PM +0000, ron minnich wrote:
what's the latest best one? What's the battery life like (can't be worse than this mac pro that's always hot and now seems to have a life of 90 minutes, always). How much dram/ssd can I jam in it?
X230 if you'd ask me: 16G RAM, 12M ROM. runs fine with reduced (830K) ME and has a powerful Ivy Bridge CPU. USB3.0, miniDisplayPort as well as docking station has been working just fine for me although handling suspend/resume as well as mounted external storage *can* be somewhat tricky (in some scenarios the X230 would instantly resume from suspend after having been docked once).
Battery life under linux has been somewhere around 8 hours for me, OpenBSD gets about 5-6 out of it but YMMV.
The X series never features more than one disk bay, but this again depends on your use case: I'm totally fine with an 120G SSD, other people prefer a RAID on their W/T model ThinkPads.
Best regards, kl3