Lenovo ThinkPad T14

The thing will old laptops from last decade is shitty screen color. I love my t420, but the screen is literally too painful to look at for a long time. So my favorite one is the thinkpad t14g1, with ips screen, and lightweight

I just replaced a T530 with a T14 gen 1 (R7 pro), and…yes. Super happy with the upgrade, for less than $300 mind you, even though I still love the old thickpad. It will live out its years in the rack, taking up an impressive amount of 1U.

I bought a used laptop with the help of ChatGPT last month and was amazed. It helped me narrow the model that suited my needs based on my prompts. I needed to renew my old Thinkpad T480. It also helped me find an ad and negociate with the seller. I ended up with a T14 Gen 4 and I'm super happy with it.

I own these and they also work great with FreeBSD: ThinkPads: - W520/W530/T520/T530/X220/X230/T420s - T480 - T14 GEN1 (Intel) - T14 GEN1 (AMD) I needed to replace MediaTek WiFi card on T14 (AMD) into some Intel WiFi one. Hope that helps. Regards, vermaden

For laptops, I always spring for the lowest amount of ram + hdd/ssd, and then instantly upgrade this from local after-market sources. However, this wouldn't work for apple devices (Hence I don't own any Apple devices). For example, my current Thinkpad T14-gen5, was bought with 8GB ram and 256GB NVME, and then upgraded to 64GB ram and 2TB NVME, for the same price as 16G/512G would have cost at Lenovo. And then I still have the 8GB/256GB to re-use/re-sell.

I had a stroke of luck this week - I am due a new laptop at work, and ordered a new ThinkPad T14, as they have served me well in the past. Then IT calls back and says that I shouldn't configure one directly at Lenovo's website, as we are to buy them from a retailer instead. OK, can do - but they only stock a few models, and the one with the CPU and disk I had configured with Lenovo was only available with 64GB RAM at the retailer. What to do? 'Ouch, that's gonna make accounting hurt. We'll order it for you right away.'

With Lenovo thinkpad, windows downloads all the needed drivers and even bios updates. My T14 Gen1 (We are at gen7 now I think?) still gets updates. It's pretty neat.

I love this. T14 gen 7 was the first NB I a actually bought for myself, and it's great to know that USB-C ports can just be replaced that easilly without soldering and that it was designed from the start with repairability in mind. Non-A USB ports is something that always ends up failing.

I rather liked the T-series (had quite a few!). But Lenovo are really running out of good will as far as I am concerned. They're riding the brand to destruction. Had some serious problems recently including one brick and one out of warranty battery turning up completely dead. The latter was an absolute nightmare to sort out resulting in a chargeback in the end. I've taken to just buying multiple 2-3 year old "tested" units again (plenty of NOS ones out there) and keeping them alive via ebay which is what I was doing around the X201 era. Same with the desktops - mine is a 2019 M720T ThinkCentre that cost me $150 equiv a couple of months back (before the RAM pricing went mental) I had a brief affair with Apple, culminating in a fairly nice M4 MacBook Pro, but quite frankly it scares me carrying that around and I really do not like Tahoe (Sequoia was fine). Back to Debian stable on the T14 gen 3 it is...

I think Apple makes really nice hardware but you can get better specs in as light (or lighter) frame elsewhere. I can compare AMD T14 Thinkpad to a Macbook. Thinkpad is faster, has more RAM (easy to get 64GB now), better keyboard. It's also louder, hotter and the screen is probably worse (mine is low end so it's significantly worse but idk how high end OLED compares). Macbooks have much better sound. Thinkpad runs Linux while Macbooks (the newest ones) still don't. I think Apple is winning but not to the extent of being the only game in town.

Apple's self-service repair is basically malicious compliance. To an extent, I appreciate that they even offer the possibility at all, but despite how good their hardware is, especially my M-series macbooks, I'm getting tired of their user hostility. My ThinkPad T14, while not macbook quality, is decent enough, and everything is user serviceable, and parts are cheap. Just 7 captive phillips screws and it's open. I'm also tired of my only choices being either a) enjoy the conveniences of the apple ecosystem and integration but have no ability to self-service my own hardware, or in the case of iOS, run my own software outside of the app store or b) try and hack together some equivalent "ecosystem" using Linux, Android, KDE connect, and various other homegrown scripts and apps but deal with an inferior laptop, inferior smartwatch, and inferior apps. Consumers are getting screwed over, even those outside of the "ecosystem," by Apple's insistence on not allowing third parties to develop against their protocols (imagine a world where any smartwatch could match the functionality of the Apple watch on iOS, or anyone could create an AirDrop client on any operating system, etc.)

What Linux computer can you buy with the battery life, quietness, lack of heat and speed of a modern ARM based Mac? Battery life, probably none. For the rest it's pretty ok now - I recently got a ThinkPad T14. Performance-wise it's in M1/M2 territory and yes the fans can spin up, but they are not very loud. I have used MacBooks since 2007, but I have started using the ThinkPad more and more. Why? I put in 64GiB RAM and a 2TB SSD and it cost me almost nothing. The laptop plus these expansions was 1400 or 1500 Euro, a MacBook with 64GiB RAM and 2TB SSD would cost me 5000 Euro. When the battery has had its time, I can replace it by removing a few screws. I added a PCI cellular modem. The expandability and maintanability is just great. Even though the GPU in my MacBook Pro (M3 Pro) blows away the ThinkPad's GPU on paper, the ThinkPad with Wayland actually renders everything super-smoothly on my 120Hz 4K screen, while on the MacBook the difference between 60Hz and 120Hz is barely noticeable. On the ThinkPad I can run NixOS, which is generally much nicer than macOS. The primary thing that my MacBook has over my ThinkPad are battery life and a bunch of really good Mac applications like the Affinity Suite. But since more and more applications are switching to Electron, it has become less of a problem. Heck, I even have 1Password with fingerprint unlock, etc. like if it was a MacBook. As far as phones - your alternative is to buy an Android phone with an operating system by an ad…

I changed/replaced a bunch of things in my ThinkPad T14 without any issues, it's very easy, it is clearly made to open up and update. I wouldn't dare to do that with my MacBook Pro.

> Framework laptops are wonderful, modern and (arguably?) cheaper to own in the long-term thanks to being able to replace components, particularly the entire mainboard as time progresses. That is entirely false. Replacing the mainboard itself costs the same amount of money as a new laptop (an entire device). Their component prices are on their website under "Shop Parts", so you can verify that for yourself. I can buy a brand new Ryzen 7000 series laptop for the price of replacing a Ryzen 7000 series mainboard for a Framework laptop. Their laptops are also a lot more expensive than same spec branded ones from Asus, Lenovo and Dell that have better build quality and design. I don't know where does this myth come from. The cost of replacing individual component is more expensive than replacing an entire device which people do not do because it needs repairing or often even upgrading, but because they're sick of the sight of it. You can't replace one component and extend the life of your PC another full cycle because you'll soon have to replace other components too. So when it comes to upgrading you have to consider the price of upgrading all available components to get the true cost as opposed to buying a new device. Eventually, sooner rather than later, both RAM and SSD will come soldered on, so the only thing you will be able to replace is the battery and the screen. Both which 99% users never have to replace. I am a Thinkpad user myself, have had them for both work and pleasu…

IDK; on my laptop, the boot time is dominated by opening the encrypted disk. From there it's well under 3 seconds to the Xfce login screen. (A T14, m.2 storage, runit as the init system.)

There are laptops that are sold with Linux preinstalled as an option. They do support sleep correctly. In particular, sleep worked for me on T series Thinkpads: T420, T450, T490, my current T14.

Oooh, I finally managed to coax my manager into getting me a ToughBook at a previous gig, after I'd churned through a Dell Mobile Workstation or two a year doing field work. The ToughBook lasted years. True, the keyboard left a bit to be desired, the screen ghosted like you wouldn't believe and the colours were a bit, uh, off, not to mention ridiculous resolution - but killing the thing was essentially impossible. It is the Land Cruiser of laptops. Expensive, sluggish, heavy, indestructible. It even had a serial port (and, still does as an optional extra!) Nowadays, I spend much less time in the field and use a T14. Has served me well thus far. Oh, and I can actually carry it around without thinking twice of it.