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  • Targon - Friday, May 3, 2019 - link

    It's too bad that they are still spending too much effort on machines with Meltdown and Spoiler Inside processors.
  • HStewart - Friday, May 3, 2019 - link

    Old news - please get off this stuff - I still have yet to see a real cases of this #@@##
  • PeachNCream - Friday, May 3, 2019 - link

    It is still relevant and there are exploits in the wild. Ignoring them or discouraging discussion about them due to brand loyalty as a consequence of being a janitor at a nameless Intel campus a decade ago doesn't excuse the company and OEMs from working together to address the problem.
  • HStewart - Friday, May 3, 2019 - link

    I have to see a real exploit of this and it not just Intel. AMD and ARM also have issues. This is not about Intel and should not be used it discuss on a product that uses Intel CPU. BTW 8th and 9th generation cpu pretty much have most of issues resolved and Sunny Cove takes it further.
  • brakdoo - Friday, May 3, 2019 - link

    Intel fan? First your comments on Movidius, now this.

    Intel is promoting hardware fixes right now and all you have is "please get off this stuff"...
  • arashi - Tuesday, May 7, 2019 - link

    Intel marketing. He's in every Intel thread proclaiming them as the Messiah.
  • Alexvrb - Saturday, May 4, 2019 - link

    I agree that it is mostly old news, and even the software-based mitigations don't generally hurt late-gen models too much (varies by workload, though). If you have a slightly older chip well... sucks to be you. If you have a fairly old chip, you're probably not very well protected at all. At least there's more competition in the market when you're ready to buy now.

    Either way you likely wouldn't know if any given piece of malware was using these or similar vulnerabilities. Just because you're not aware of something, doesn't mean malware authors don't know about it. That assumes the software makes its presence known in the first place, rather than just collecting information and relaying it back.

    One more thing: There's no guarantee current mitigations will help with future variants.
  • Irata - Monday, May 6, 2019 - link

    While AMD and ARM are partially affected, Intel CPU are fully affected by *all* discovered flaws.
    So it really is not the same. Not even close.
  • GreenReaper - Friday, May 3, 2019 - link

    Well, Whiskey Lake *does* have _some_ hardware fixes inside:
    https://www.anandtech.com/show/13301/spectre-and-m...

    They don't have it for BTI, which is unfortunate, but arguably reptoline-based solutions will help decrease the impact of mitigation.

    The big question is whether this is a 15W or 25W design - judging by these test results, this is far more important for performance, at least under any kind of sustained load:
    https://www.techspot.com/review/1782-intel-whiskey...
  • HStewart - Friday, May 3, 2019 - link

    I have gone though 2 different generations of ThinkPad's with my work and one thing I am concern is since IBM sold off ThinkPad and other computes that the line is degrading in quality. I personally have two Lenovo based computers ( Y50 and S100 ) and I would said the quality of these computers is nothing compare to my work computers.

    My work has switch from Lenovo Think Pads to Dell laptops and I personally have two Dell ( XPS 13 2in1 and XPS 15 2in1) and except for some issues with video in XPS 15 2in1, the quality is 2nd to none in my opinion.

    I hope this ThinkBook line is not just Lenovo monopolizing on Think Pad line. Of course newest Lenovo has 4th generation CPU while Dell has 8th generation which probably makes a big difference but I think most is just construction of the laptop. It might just me, but I see nothing warrant complaints about Dell laptops. Lenovo is a different story, I will never purchase another one.
  • levizx - Friday, May 3, 2019 - link

    You obvious can't spell ThinkPad correctly, and don't have the foggiest about monopoly. Coupled with your utter disregard of actual security risk, thank gods you don't have a important job.
  • levizx - Friday, May 3, 2019 - link

    *an
  • Rookierookie - Saturday, May 4, 2019 - link

    Neither the Y50 nor the S100 are Thinkpads, and you must be living under a rock if you haven't heard about the various issues with the XPS 15.
  • ikjadoon - Friday, May 3, 2019 - link

    Hope they can squeeze in at least one normal laptop at a 3:2 display ratio.

    #WritersDeserveBetter
  • MarcusMo - Friday, May 3, 2019 - link

    My thoughts exactly. They’ve learned nothing from the success of the matebook pro x, surface laptop etc. That bottom chin is just a terrible waste of space.
  • HStewart - Friday, May 3, 2019 - link

    I personally like Ultrawide so two documents on same screen. Better than two displays and especially Laptop / Desktop display combination.
  • p1esk - Friday, May 3, 2019 - link

    Two documents on 13” screen?
  • HStewart - Friday, May 3, 2019 - link

    Two documents on 38 in desktop screen combine with laptop screen which barely gets used unless I actually mobile with it.

    The following is a new version of monitor - I got it for $700 and it great

    https://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-38UC99-W-ultrawi...
  • MarcusMo - Friday, May 3, 2019 - link

    I’m on my 4th 21:9 monitor by now (34wk95 right now) and I absolutely love the format for side by side work. 16:9 is rubbish in comparison, both windows become too skinny.

    If you like the window proportions on a split 21:9 (10.5:9), you’ll probably more inclined to like 3:2 instead of 16:9. Have you tried it?

    Regardless of your proportion preferences, I think we can all agree on that screen real estate beats plastic chins. Either shrink the proportions of the laptop, or fill the lid with pixels please!
  • p1esk - Friday, May 3, 2019 - link

    Where did you get it for $700? That's a very good deal!
  • notashill - Friday, May 3, 2019 - link

    How wide are you expecting them to make a laptop?
  • MamiyaOtaru - Saturday, May 4, 2019 - link

    if they make it taller without making it thinner (easy, just get rid of the chin), you can have two documents side by side and be able to see more of them both without scrolling! Sacrificing vertical screen size for no reason is dumb
  • nicolaim - Friday, May 3, 2019 - link

    Those bottom bezels are ridiculously huge! What a waste.
    Still a bunch of old-school USB-A ports, and I'll bet no charging over USB-C.
  • Lord of the Bored - Saturday, May 4, 2019 - link

    What's wrong with having USB A ports? They serve only to increase utility.
    I mean, you CAN festoon a machine with a bunch of USB-C ports, but almost nothing can connect to them, so it isn't a practical decision. You can ALSO put just a single port on it and require users to leave a hub attached at all times, but... that's also impractical.
    OR you can install a few instances of the port that almost everything released for the last two decades is designed to plug into.

    And USB-C charging is great... when you don't actually have room for a real power connector.
  • zmatt - Monday, May 6, 2019 - link

    Current ThinkPads are using usb-c for charging so I would assume these new consumer models would as well due to the greater supply chain efficiency.

    But usb-c isn't all that widely adopted yet so usb-a will have a place for a long time to come. The only things I regularly see using it are chargers and newer smartphones. The phones more often than not come with usb-c to usb-a cables anyways. I know review sites love to talk about all of the cool stuff that can usb-c but I have yet to see much of it in the real world. Its all in stores or on websites.
  • sharath.naik - Friday, May 3, 2019 - link

    LG gram is still the laptop to beat. They have managed to add a ram slot(I wish they have both channels as slotted) and 2 NVME drive slots. all in a sub 1KG weight for 14 inch. With ICE lake the need for discrete graphics will be even lower.
  • Pneumothorax - Friday, May 3, 2019 - link

    In 2019 they should be offering a HiDPI screen option. HD doesn't cut it anymore....
  • mode_13h - Saturday, May 4, 2019 - link

    Why do you need > 1920 in a 13" screen? I first got 1920x1200 in a 15.4" screen and thought the pixels were tiny...
  • sorten - Friday, May 3, 2019 - link

    Images are too low res for me to tell, but it almost looks like they've fixed their keyboard layout and have the Ctrl key in the correct location. Can anyone confirm?
  • zmatt - Monday, May 6, 2019 - link

    This seems like diluting the Think brand to me. The Think systems, ThinkPad and ThinkCentre have always been the business class devices. You get nice to haves that simply aren't in the consumer models like metal roll cages, CRFP bodies, liquid drain holes, upgradeability and repairability. etc etc. Calling the Ideapad a ThinkBook sounds like what my grandma would call a laptop because she can't differentiate between Apple and Lenovo products.
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