Used Laptops tested with LinuxCNC and Mesa Ethernet boards

Ah, so there's hope.
I am looking at T450/460/470 with touchscreen as I am planning on putting this on a small lathe with ProbeBasic. Perhaps, the screen will be too small but it should be fine to get me started and I do need a laptop PC for other stuff once in a while. 

Another question, maybe not the ideal place for it, but let me give it a shot:)

Found a T470 with a touchscreen, just need seller to confirm a few things before pulling the trigger on it.
[EDIT] Done, I bought it. Will take a few weeks before I get my hands on it though. 

Anyhow, I need it to dual boot as I also need Windows for a few things. Especially to run some servo tuning software for Delta and maybe Panasonic. Now, if I need to start messing with turning things off in the BIOS to make the T470 work for LCnc (I am on Mesa cards, so maybe I don't) will that also affect the Windows partition or would that be separate? My paranoia is that somehow, I will be limiting how well the laptop would work in Windows mode. That said, I don't know if servo tuning needs anything particular that BIOS modding could mess with.

tommylight wrote:

 
Yeah, I think I saw and liked that vid last night as that's when I took another stab at finding a laptop that will hopefully work.

Btw, 1920x1080 is a must for ProbeBasic and Chris is putting a ton of work into the ProbeBasic for lathes these days - especially the conversational is beginning to look amazing!
 

tommylight wrote:

Lenovo ThinkPad Yoga 370, Intel Core i7 7600U, 16GB RAM, 512GB NVME
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-TouchScreen as it is laptop/tablet combo,
-no RJ45 connector,
-tested using a USB-A to GigaBit Ethernet adapter
-LinuxCNC 2.10 on Linux Mint 22 with RT kernel 6.10.12, Mesa 7i92 on a production machine,
-No GRUB changes, no isolcpus nor anything else, no BIOS changes
-complaints about latency whenever sound is used, but does not loose or drop connection,
==disabling hyperthreading and Intel AMT gets rid the warnings, but still rarely it does complain
-Plugging power does cause latency warning, but machine continues to work, and uplugging does not.
-isolcpus=3 and =2,3 did not help
-disabling TPM does NOT help much
==disabling SGX and virtualization DOES help a lot,
-no more warnings even playing videos during running of LinuxCNC and doing other stuff,
-did not test youtube as WiFi does not work with this kernel
-no more issues with servo period 1mil at all, except when plugging power
Video:
www.youtube.com/shorts/__zn74D7OyM
 

I'm starting my third LinuxCNC build / conversion.

For my second conversion I used a 5th generation Yoga 15 (i5 and no Ethernet port), however this flavor of Yoga has the Lenovo OneLink connector and I picked up a Lenovo dock that has amongst other things a RJ45 Ethernet port. I'm using a Mesa 7i96 This all works really well. Sometime on first power-up I get a latency error, but never once I'm up and running so from a practical perspective it all works perfectly.

So I thought I would try another Yoga for build #3. This one is a bit newer 8th generation so it does not have the OneLink port but it does have  2 x USB-C 3.1 Gen 1 USB ports. So I now need to find a suitable USB-C dock or Ethernet adapter. I would prefer a doc for all the extra ports but can live with just an Ethernet adapter. I just want to avoid getting one that may not be up to the task of communicating with the Mesa (I will probably get another 7i96s).

Any suggestions for a dock or adapter?