What "merits" needing a CPU upgrade? I upgraded from a core i9 11950h to a 13900h machine because I needed more performance. That 11th gen machine still looks pristine besides one spot where a cat bit the corner of the lid. Even my piddling around machine wasn't up to snuff and upgraded from a 10th gen i5 to a 12th gen system. That machine's keyboard was a bit worn when I first got it, but it's not (appreciably) worse now. Besides that and maybe the palm rest the chassis is in pretty good condition. Why does it matter if the keycaps are a little smooth? Or there's a small scuff on one corner. Or a cat punctured the bezel of the display and somehow didn't break anything.
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You're worried about the screen being worn out? How does a screen wear out (excluding maybe oled burn in, but this aint oled). And a good chassis shouldn't show that much wear after a few years.
They're still far better than everything else on the market.
IdeaPads also aren't ThinkPads. Those are the consumer grade garbage you'd want to stay away from.
That's cool. Performance per dollar isn't the only factor for a laptop.
Size
Weight
Durability
Battery life
I/O and other features.
A not dogshit network card
An actually usuable trackpad
I'm sure I could list more. But those are all things that are important on a laptop and you can't change after you buy it.
The law requires things to have a backdoor (or non encryption I guess). So it's either sell in that market, or don't and have security.
And it's not in the center of the port. It's in between two ports where a boot should never be in the way.
Lemmy is not the demographic to ask this question. You're definitely skewed towards using a desktop/laptop here.
Unless the open source ones have gotten a whole lot better in the 4-5 years
Good news!
They're not perfect, but they are a lot better. Worst case just change it post install when you know nothing funky will happen.
Are you wanting to run the nvidia proprietary drivers? I haven't tried installing them without the card being installed first.
If you don't care/want the open source drivers then just install the card and on startup it should load the appropriate drivers for the card. And if you don't like the open source ones just switch once it's installed.
https://wiki.sipeed.com/hardware/en/kvm/NanoKVM/introduction.html
Software or hardware? Have you tried this?
The first Android phone had the nipple, so must be the layout or something.
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My #1 go to is probably Cathode Ray Dude. He makes videos mostly on old tech which is what I'm very interested in.
If you're more looking for exposing scandals there's always Coffeezilla/Voidzill.