1st Gen Lunchtable Thread - General Discussion

Hey you guys should vote for me in the 2021 Calendar, haha

s/o to @eon_blue for the Ansel Adams quality pictures

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads...-1st-generation-tacomas.694518/#post-24563206

 

In my minimal research I just did i noticed portable workstations that gave the best features but were on the 3k price range

I was hoping to spend more like 600 lol

Do you have any idea on a laptop model that's easy to upgrade? I might go the route of getting a used barebones one from ebay and then buy the components to upgrade it.. im sure that's cheaper in the long run

 

But if we vote for you then we can't vote for @eon_blue .... sounds like a conflict of interest to me

 

Mmm i found one that does the bare bones solidworks requirements for around 750 plus tax... I wonder if I can get 250 off that lol

 

Indeededly so

 

A lot of laptops these days are awful to upgrade, but some of them can be, pretty much have to google each one and see what it takes to add ram or swap a hard drive. Thinkpads are pretty well known to be repairable and upgradable, I was just looking at the Thinkpad P52 on ebay -

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Lenovo-Thi...-SSD-16GB-Ram-DDR4-Nvidia-Quadro/193773643581


If it weren't for the solidworks, this would be easier, but solidworks is supposedly picky. Does the school have workstations available for CAD usage, or are they expecting everyone to pony up for a portable workstation?

 

This one might be a candidate as well - the P50. Its older, but it still hits your minimum requirements.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Lenovo-Thi...GHz-16GB-512GB-SSD-M1000M-Win-10/303789930572

 

Yes the school has a computer lab that's fully functional for all CAD softwares it's more so for me to be able to do school projects at home so im not stuck completely at their mercy as well as after I graduate and need it for work.. I don't want work to buy a laptop for me (although I'm sure they would if I begged hard enough) because I want the freedom to still have the hardware should I leave for bigger and better things.. or if I start building stuff for my own projects like I really wanna do

 

Thank you for this link! Im currently watching a YouTube video of a guy thats using a thinkpad as his platform to build a better unit

 

Sorry my mistake he's using a Panasonic thoughbook

 

You can vote for more than one person, there are 12 calendar pages that need winners after all

But a vote for me is a vote for the future

 

Ah ok. Only other thought then is to consider the possibility of getting the company to build you a work desktop down the road. It'll be much more performance per dollar than a laptop.

 

That's a great point.. I might just go with that P50 and get them to build a desktop after I graduate

 

It's interesting this is the first TW calendar year that isn't going to be mostly SAS'ed Tacomas in the calendar lol. I think I only saw one submitted.

The first few years I was on here (2016-2018) literally the majority of winners of the 1st gen calendar photos were SAS'ed 1st gens

 

Or I wonder if they'd go halfsies with you on a new one for school?

 

I can't help you out too much, unfortunately. I've had some beastly Lenovo desktop replacement and HP ultrabooks for work in the past. Last few years I have just had a MBP for work

 

Right where my feelings would be