Looking at the Mediocre Lenovo ThinkPad A475
This laptop bored me so much that I had said just about everything I wanted to say within the first 10 minutes of the video.
This is the Lenovo ThinkPad A475, a laptop which signified the end of the terror that was AMD’s Bulldozer APUs. This was a good thing, as Raven Ridge improved on things so dramatically that those laptops are still usable today, at least in Linux. This, however, is far less justifiable given that you’d have to drop some money for one of these. And is $150 a price tag you’d want to pay for a laptop with a rebranded AMD FX-9800P?
When an Arch Linux derivative can’t save a laptop from impending doom, you know it’s probably time to give it up. In all fairness, KDE 6 isn’t the wisest choice for such a slow laptop and the TDP limits hit extra hard in this case, but this isn’t fast. I was genuinely more impressed by the Core 2 Duo HP EliteBook I looked at recently.
I did forget to mention that I threw a new internal battery in there as well as a new 61Wh external battery. That point is moot in this video as I kept it plugged in, but ideally, this will give the laptop a nice boost in battery life.
