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  • I’m gonna be real, I really dislike the t580. The keyboard is just awful. Again, my sister had 2 of them. One was my dad’s old laptop and the other one is the replacement. The keyboard is so meh. Same with the track pad. The cooling solution is really nice. I like the captive screws. But using it is awful. I actually prefer the HP pavilion x360 that I essentially rebuilt twice over the t580.


  • I have a gripe with the 80 series. The USB c ports aren’t easily fixable and the laptop only charges through USB c. (also USB pd handshake blanking the screen on 7th gen Intel models, but that doesn’t count).

    So for example, my sister fucks up her power dedicated USB C port because shit happens. She’s reliant on the last remaining one to keep working. It’s not on a seperate daughter board like HP, which has some USB ports and the charger on seperate boards. I can replace that. I can’t really microsolder.

    Tbh my current work laptop is the same. It’s usbc for charging only.

    And it’s not like there’s complicated data lines or anything for the power specific port, it’s USB 2 at best.



  • The problem is that for whatever reason, touch panels (specifically the ones with built in digitizers) always have awful color accuracy. Every single panel that I’ve looked at to replace the one in my laptop is always like 66% sRGB. Also taking into consideration that it does both MPP and USI styluses, that digitizer is custom.

    Edit: it’s not a built in digitizer, it’s glass. They’re sourcing the panel from boe based on the parts image. Theoretically if you knew what you were doing, you could replace the digitizer. I’ve tried removing the glass from a panel before and it is a nightmare.

    Edit 2: there’s 3 panels that fit the descriptor of what you want and fit the framework 12 (not accounting for the glass digitizer). They’re all discontinued and are like a decade old according to panelook.

    Edit 3: I adjusted my search parameters to match the framework 12. It’s a 12.2 in panel and according to panelook, all of them barring the discontinued one are 50% ntsc gamut or don’t list anything. It’s such an odd size that not many display manufacturers have options. Like 6 options, 6 different manufacturers.

    Convertible laptops like this just suck in general to shop for. I wanted one with a dgpu and that left me with 3 current gen options, (11th gen Intel when I originally searched), all from Asus, or 7th-8th gen Intel (including the machine I had at the time).