[schipplock]

We still have many Thinkpad T490 with Intel Core i7 and 40GB Ram. They overheat and throttle gpu and cpu to the point you can't work anymore. Even the mouse comes to a halt. The fan barely spins up. Absolutely rubbish.

Then we have Thinkpad P15v2 Gen2, also with Core i7, the moment you fire up your compiler, the fans spin up immediately (also very loud). No throttling, you can compile all day.

At home I have a Thinkpad Ryzen laptop, no fan noise, no throttling, full power. It's just a different kind.

[FpUser]

I guess the recipe is - do your homework and do not buy crap but that is what many corporations do for their employees. Their laptops cost way more than the one I mentioned and are still slow.

[schipplock]

T470 was fine :). $Company thought that a "T490 must be better and good enough" :). In fact, if you cool down a T490 good enough, it _is_ faster than a T470, but in the end the T490 is useless for a developer that needs processing power.