Longtime Linux kernel developer and block subsystem maintainer, Jens Axboe recently conveyed his frustrations with "stupid throttling" where his new Lenovo X1 Carbon Gen9 laptop is "unusable in certain scenarios" like compiling the Linux kernel while running on AC as it ends up throttling all the way down to 400MHz...
Answering from above: Because it IS a work laptop and the majority of customers don't want to break their backs carrying the damned things to worksites. Besides, laptops have always been thermally constrained, including your much vaunted earlier model Thinkpads. They are not, and never have been, adequate substitutes for any similar generation desktop. Now if you want to talk about the repairability of Thinkpads that's a different story, but they weren't all that back friendly. I'd argue that laptops aren't designed to be developer machines, except as an IDE front end to compile clusters. Even more so today as flash memory is quickly eaten by build cycles.
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