On: Ask HN: MacBooks seems to be the only viable option these days

[TheChaplain]

I'd say just unlucky. My Thinkpad Carbon X1 is rock solid, no issues the last 1.5 years even though my large cat frequently sleeps on it.

[tynan → TheChaplain]

X1 Carbon feels a lot nicer to me than a Macbook. It's also lighter than a Macbook air and has a bigger screen and better keyboard.

Macbooks are better than about 95% of PC laptops, but that's because Macbooks are only in the lower/mid upper end of laptops. PC laptops range from absolute garbage to being significantly better than Macbooks.

When people complain about how terrible PC laptops are, it's very rare that they've spent a meaningful amount of time (read: enough to get used to the trackpoint) with a high end PC laptop.

[kiwijamo → TheChaplain]

Really happy with my X1 as well. I prefer my X1 over my work supplied MacBook. The difference is like night and day for me. YMMV of course.

[throwaway675309 → TheChaplain]

I want to like the carbon but the lack of AMD options and a hard cap of 16 GB of RAM keep me away.

[alexfoo → throwaway675309]

Not sure where you get that RAM cap from. I have 32GB in my X1.

[smileybarry → alexfoo]

Vendor limitation maybe? Some manufacturers just don't want to certify configurations above X GB but if you install the DIMMs they will boot.

[imhoguy → throwaway675309]

You may check X13 AMD Gen 2 which has 32GB soldered RAM option. Although I am not sure how much it differs from X1 Carbon. Anyway I prefer a bit more screen real estate so went with T14 which is still very portable too and gets up to 48GB RAM. What I miss is lack of TB4/USB4 support to plug in eGPU. Some rumors say AMD Ryzen 6000 line should have it.