The Tax Man Cometh
I try to set aside money to use on hardware every year, and this year I chose to grab a powerhouse laptop.
The desktop that I built a few years back was starting to feel a little bit creaky. It was easier to buy a better video card and convert it into a gaming rig than try to update various pieces to modernize it.
I’ve long been a fan of ThinkPads, especially the P series of workstations. I’ve got a P51 right now, which I use for general stuff. It’s a powerful laptop, and it was great to travel with and still be able to write and run demos on. Where things get a little trickier is recording/streaming content. If I run any extra spicy demos on here, it impacts everything. Recording and streaming software has to share.
When I had to do that stuff, I used my desktop for demos. This new laptop serves two purposes: it’s a backup in case anything happens to my main laptop, and it’s where I can safely build demos. And hey, maybe someday It’ll be my main laptop, and I’ll have an even crazier laptop for demos.
Eyeball
While watching the Lenovo site for sales, one came along that I couldn’t say no to. I ended up getting about $8500 worth of computer for a shade under $5000.
What’s under the hood?
Yes, that is a laptop with 128GB of RAM, and a decent enough graphics card to process video if need be.
Benched
As far as benchmarks go, this thing is plenty speedy.
This is great for a laptop. No complaints here.
The storage is also pretty sweet.
Comparing my P51 storage to the new P17 storage:
I can read the Posts table into memory about 8 seconds faster on the new laptop. Pretty sweet!
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A Word From Our Sponsors
First, a huge thank you to everyone who has bought my training so far. You all are incredible, and I owe all of you a drink.
Your support means a lot to me, and allows me to do nice stuff for other people, like give training away for free.
So far, I’ve donated $45k (!!!) worth of training to folks in need, no questions asked.
Next year, I’d like to keep doing the same thing. I’d also like to produce a whole lot more training to add value to the money you spend. In order to do that, I need to take time off from consulting, which isn’t easy to do. I’m not crying poor, but saying no to work for chunks of time isn’t easy for a one-person party.
I’m hoping that I can make enough in training bucks to make that possible.
Because this sale is extra sale-y, I’ve decided to name it after the blackest black known to man.
From today until December 31st, you can get all 25 hours of my recorded training content for just $100.00. If you click the link below to add everything to your cart, and use the discount code AllFor100 to apply a discount to your cart.
Some fine print: It only works if you add EVERYTHING. It’s a fixed amount discount code that you need to spend a certain amount to have kick in.
Thank for reading, and for your support.