Eric Phillips
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30 lines
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title: "Thinkpad E495"
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date: 2020-01-30T15:45:35-07:00
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tags:
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- linux
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- laptop
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- hardware
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draft: false
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Decided to get a new laptop with the sale of my business and starting school. After a lot of research I decided on a [Lenovo Thinkpad E495](https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpad-e-series/E495/p/22TP2TEE495). I found the Ryzen 5(3500U) model at Best Buy with 8GB of ram and a 256GB SSD for $650 out the door. I decided to go with the Ryzen 5 over the 7 since the increase in performance didn't seem worth the extra $150. Also with the pending release of Renior and the new XPS 13 developer edition I decided to be as cheap as possible on this purchase and still get something I want and will probably be happy with for 2+ years. I decided on AMD CPU intead of Intel for 3 reasons: 1) support AMD because the Ryzen series seems to be pushing Intel to get better themselves 2) AMD seems to be less effected by the new hardware vulnerabilities coming out the last few years 3) better integrated graphics. I was looking at having 32GB RAM and at least a 500GB SSD, and this laptop series is upgradable. I will be getting a 2x16GB RAM kit and 1TB SSD from Amazon to put in for another $200 - $250. Still around $700 less than I'm thinking the XPS 9300 with 32GB will be and who knows how much or when the Renoir will be.
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[I'll update when I get this hardware with a Arch Linux install guide and pictures.](../thinkpad-e495-arch)
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In preperation for the arrival of the e495 I have ordered the upgraded hardrive, NVME and 2.5"sata, and 32GB ram kit. The NVME drive is here already so I've already installed the base system and setup a bootable systemd. For some reason Anubis, my yoga 2 pro, will not read the drive during boot so I resorted to using virtual box to boot the system. Following are links to the guides I have used so far, I will do another, more detailed post on the actual installation and steps. I have installed all the hardware upgrades, the laptop showed up a week earlier that expected. [Lenovo has a very detailed manual](https://download.lenovo.com/pccbbs/mobiles_pdf/e490_e495_e490s_ug_v2_en.pdf) with procedures for disassembling the laptop and replacing almost everything.
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### Parts
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- [1TB NVME SSD](https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07K1J3C23/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1) and a
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- [USB case for NVME SSD](https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07MNFH1PX/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1).
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- [Crucial 1TB 2.5" sata SSD](https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B077SF8KMG/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o05_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1)
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- [Crucial 32GB Kit](https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B019FRCV9G/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o05_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1)
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### Guides
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- [dm-crypt](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dm-crypt/Encrypting_an_entire_system#LUKS_on_a_partition)
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- [rEFInd](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/REFInd#Installing_the_rEFInd_Boot_Manager)
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- [systemd-swap](https://github.com/Nefelim4ag/systemd-swap)
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- [Arch Installation Guide](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installation_guide)
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- [BTRFS subvolumes](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Btrfs#Creating_a_subvolume)
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- [BTRFS swap file](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Btrfs#Swap_file)
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