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Is stupidity allowed as a reason? 😬 I wanted to have both machines fully working as I transferred programs, settings, & data between them. But in reality, I could have done what you suggested.

Thanks, ordered!

Quick question: Can I take the second SSD drive out of my old Dell, put it in some kind of external housing, hook it up via USB to the new Lenovo, and transfer data that way? If so, any recommendations on what to use? It's an M.2 2280 PCIe NVMe SSD, 4TB (about 2.5TB full). SSDR,4TB,G44,80D2,KIOXIA,XG7 The new laptop is great, I'll write up a detailed review soon. But first, I need to get the data transferred. I can't do it any normal methods, because this Dell only runs about an hour before it BSOD on me (that was one of the reasons I bought a new one). So I'm thinking if I could pull the SSD, I could do it that way. Otherwise, doing it an hour at a time will take me the rest of my life.

Wow, less than 48 hours after I posted it was on the way from Shanghai, it was just delivered. Sadly, I'm not going to be home until Sunday, so the official unboxing will have to wait...

Shipped! On that slow boat from China...

I will post a review when it arrives. I got excited, I rec'd a shipping notice. But then I saw it was for the extra power cord/brick. Still no ship date on the laptop itself, although I expect it will not be long. Use case for an i9? Debatable. But I do a few things that probably take all the CPU I can get, even if it's just for a few seconds. And if it speeds it up by a few split seconds, I'll take it. Much of what I do is also dependent on disk speed, hence my desire for fast SSDs. Sometimes I load 30,000 MP3+ files into a tagger (Mp3tag), all at once. I'm probably using everything the system has--disk, CPU, RAM. Or I might filter a Quicken report from 200MB of data (250,000+ transactions). Convert video and audio files from format to format. And on and on. Speed helps! But I'm not doing anything like some people, with graphics intensive programs, whether games or 3D modeling. Or huge multi-GB databases. I respect they truly need speed.

You're almost certainly correct. In reality, the entire laptop is probably overkill. But I like a really fast machine, with lots of RAM, and blazing hard drive speed (and space) to spare. I don't have many vices in life, but a supersonic laptop is one.

Just pulled the trigger on a Thinkpad P16 Gen 2. Should be here in about two weeks. I appreciate everyone's feedback and help on this!

What is your recommendation if I want to stay with 17". I don't see any Lenovo Thinkpads above 16" Thanks!

Thank you, appreciate the feedback. Good to hear those advantages. The two SSD limit isn't an issue (if I understand you correctly). I need 8TB, so (2)4TB is plenty. And I currently don't have an RJ45 port on my XPS17. I bought a USB-C to RJ45 adapter for that one or two times I actually needed one.

Were you happy with it? Why are you selling it? Thanks, I will dig a little deeper. I agree, the 64GB is plenty, and I can easily add my own second SSD.

I'm also looking at a Lenovo Thinkpad P16 Gen 2. I customized it to: i9 13950HX 64GB DDR5 (2) 4 TB SSD M.2 2280 PCIe Gen4 Opal 16" WQUXGA OLED touch, etc etc Nvidia RTX 2000 The rest is pretty much std. Thoughts? Is this a good laptop? Is there anything else in the Lenovo line I should be looking at?

Thanks, looks like a great machine. But how the heck do I customize it? All it does is send me to Amazon (or others) to buy a pre-configured machine. I need to add RAM, add SSD, upgrade to W11-PRO, etc. Can I buy it from ASUS, and have them customize it?

It appears this isn't released yet.

Off to explore LG. Thanks.