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   Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot (libreleah@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 20-Mar-2025 16:38:22 JST Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot

   By the way I'm still accepting Minifree orders despite the website being offline; I expect the website to be back online by the weekend.

   However, I regularly do custom orders via email anyway. If anyone wants to purchase a Libreboot machine from me, just contact me (info@minifree.org)

   I've had a few people email me asking when the shop will be back.

   I've been re-wiring the lab internet, prior to setting up the new shop.

   Librebooted ThinkPad T480 and Dell Optiplex 3050 Micros are what I sell.

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     Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot (libreleah@mas.to)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 02:34:35 JST Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot

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     • milvus_migrans_govinda

     @milvus_migrans_govinda i7 is compatible, but pointless. it only offers about 10% performance boost, yet those models cost about twice as much online. better go with the i5-8250u model, it's the best value for money in my opinion. that's the one i sell. i can do i7 but they're super rare and i'll probably start charging extra for those from now on (i've been basically banking on a few of them being i7, in big batches that i buy, rather than buying them specifically, where the latter costs more)

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     milvus_migrans_govinda (milvus_migrans_govinda@social.linux.pizza)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 02:34:36 JST milvus_migrans_govinda

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     @libreleah hello! Curious if the T480 with i7 CPUs can be flashed with Libreboot. I've seen guides in the wild that show i7 boards being flashed. However, I was curious why I didn't see an i7 option on minifree.org. Perhaps I missed a note somewhere?

     ~ A happy minifree.org T440p customer. :thinkpad:

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     Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot (libreleah@mas.to)'s status on Saturday, 22-Mar-2025 17:59:10 JST Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot

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     • milvus_migrans_govinda

     @milvus_migrans_govinda by all means. instructions are at https://libreboot.org/docs/install/t480.html

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     milvus_migrans_govinda (milvus_migrans_govinda@social.linux.pizza)'s status on Saturday, 22-Mar-2025 17:59:12 JST milvus_migrans_govinda

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     @libreleah thanks for putting a number to it: 10%. I just found a deal online where the i7 T480 is only 10% more expensive than the i5. Perhaps I should go for it? And try my hand at flashing Libreboot?

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     Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot (libreleah@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Mar-2025 17:19:26 JST Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot

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     @milvus_migrans_govinda CPUs about the same, in terms of FLOPS (floating point operations per second); it *is* slightly higher. GPU performance is much higher.

     Power efficiency is higher, and the T480 can take more RAM (*64GB* max, versus 16GB on the T440p).

     T480 also have an NVMe SSD slot, enabling higher data throughput.

     It is theoretically possible to add a 2nd NVMe SSD on T480, by designing a modboard to piggyback off of the PCI-E x4 lane (unused dGPU slot). T440p also has that dGPU slot.

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     milvus_migrans_govinda (milvus_migrans_govinda@social.linux.pizza)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Mar-2025 17:19:28 JST milvus_migrans_govinda

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     @libreleah strictly in terms of performance, how much better do you think an i7 T480 is, compared to an i7 T440p?

     I have the latter, and CPU performance stats on the web for the two i7s—surprisingly—seem practically the same. I even noticed some parameters where the Haswell seemed to edge out the Kaby Lake Refresh.