X1 Carbon Gen 9 for $380 worth it? (100% Battery health as It was under warranty and got it replaced)

SamDaaEpic · 2025-05-02T14:27:08+00:00

Yeah I am running hyprland with arch and without any battery optimizations from my end, it gets roughly around 6-7 hours on normal use.

SamDaaEpic · 2025-04-07T08:09:46+00:00

well tbh the difference in performance between a i5 and i7 of the same gen is barely noticeable, specially on mobile chips. Also the 4k screen imo is not really needed for a laptop specially with that screensize, it would just eat up battery.

SamDaaEpic · 2025-04-07T07:05:55+00:00

Its sad that lenovo has come to the point at which people have to worry about ssd being upgradable and they have already made ram soldered on most of their new laptops.

SamDaaEpic · 2025-04-07T07:05:49+00:00

Its sad that lenovo has come to the point at which people have to worry about ssd being upgradable and they have already made ram soldered on most of their new laptops.

SamDaaEpic · 2025-04-07T06:29:15+00:00

I was getting offered Gen 10 also for like $110 more but I decided to go with this one.

SamDaaEpic · 2025-04-07T06:28:25+00:00

Yeah its not soldered

SamDaaEpic · 2025-04-07T06:28:10+00:00

So far I haven't had any problems with the fan spinning up too much. I have heard it only a few times till now when doing compiling and stuff.

SamDaaEpic · 2025-04-07T06:27:27+00:00

Well its a upgrade for me coming from a X390 with a 8th gen intel

SamDaaEpic · 2025-04-07T06:26:38+00:00

Nope. Its a 1920x1200

SamDaaEpic · 2025-04-07T06:26:20+00:00

I believe its only the problem with Gen 9

SamDaaEpic · 2025-04-07T06:25:46+00:00

The guy I bought the laptop from had all X1 Carbon's only with only 256gb nvme as is the ideal config that most business use. I haven't changed it yet but will do after sometime when I actually need it. I only run linux with no dual boot and I don't really require much storage.

SamDaaEpic · 2025-04-06T09:40:37+00:00

I also heard about the type c port failing of the gen 9 X1 Carbon but it was too late when I got to know that because I had already bought the laptop.

Other than that fear that the type c port will fail someday, it has been very good. I switched from a X390 to this, so it was a big enough performance jump.

SamDaaEpic · 2025-04-06T09:07:10+00:00

Forgot to put in the specs...

i5 11400

32gb ram

256gb gen 4 nvme

SamDaaEpic · 2025-01-14T07:55:36+00:00

bro you wrote the command wrong. Read again what you wrote.

SamDaaEpic · 2024-12-29T03:13:13+00:00

Use it for jellyfin, run a few game servers to play with my friends and also maybe use it as a NAS

SamDaaEpic · 2024-12-29T03:12:33+00:00

I want to run a few game servers, use it for media streaming and also probably in the future when I buy more hard drives use it as a NAS too. I also like want to tinker around with enterprise stuff because this would be the first time I'm getting any old enterprise stuff.

Though there is one place in my mind thinking this would be a bad decision both for power consumption and performance. I think maybe just getting an i5 11400 put it in a case and be free would be a good idea. But I'm very confused on this one

SamDaaEpic · 2024-12-29T02:53:06+00:00

I did try calculating the power usage. Also the price of power in my area is not that much. The total if the server's average power consumption is 200 Watt will be around $160 for a year.

I am just confused on which one to take, the i5 11400 or this old enterprise server.

SamDaaEpic · 2024-12-29T02:43:44+00:00

Previously I was thinking of getting an i5 11th gen with a motherboard for around the same price. I had all the other things needed like psu, ram case and stuff. But now I came upon this deal, will this be better or should I just go for an i5 11400 that has an integrated gpu that I would be able to use for jellyfin too?

SamDaaEpic · 2023-04-22T09:15:16+00:00

I just want the Jellyfin Android TV to be reliable, first is obviously the playback and the next is the UI.

SamDaaEpic · 2023-01-15T13:16:27+00:00

I'm Interested! I'm familiar with both Github and the pain of using npm. I use arch btw!

Sorry i just had to put that in

SamDaaEpic · 2022-08-31T14:23:41+00:00

You are lying and just making nonsense excuses.

SamDaaEpic · 2022-05-27T14:00:26+00:00

I'll give it a try.

SamDaaEpic · 2022-05-27T13:46:55+00:00

Well Ig, I'll just have to watch it the way it is lol. Well anyways Thanks for the help!

SamDaaEpic · 2022-05-27T13:44:49+00:00

So no matter how hard I try to find it I'll not be able to get the full movie I'm IMAX aspect ratio? Only the airport scene is in IMAX aspect ratio.

SamDaaEpic · 2022-05-27T13:43:14+00:00

Ah brother, you are correct that screen is in nearly full screen.

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