Lenovo ThinkPad T460p

10owners with an opinion

100%of verdicts positive

3/0positive/negative since 2024

5 yrslongest happy owner

3happy after 3+ years

Praised for performance and reliability.

What owners wrote

Likes itOwned 5 years

W500 - 3 years, nothing x230 - replacement battery, screen died (easy replacement), handrest cracked, still usable T460p - 5 years of light use, nothing T470p - 3 years, nothing Legion Y520 - keyboard stopped working partly, bought a replacement and noticed it's basically impossible to replace, then bought a second one, this time a complete top case - replacement was a chore, but fine Overall: still a happy Lenovo customer

NeutralOwned 4.5 yearsStill going

> I grumpily ordered a replacement key for 15 euros. In the months after that, replacement keys became a recurring cost. After spending more than 100 euros on plastic keys, which would soon break again, I calculated that my keyboard had 90 keys and that replacing them all just once would cost me 1,350 euros. Am I missing something, or can an entire replacement keyboard not be had for ~32 EUR? https://www.amazon.com/Replacement-Keyboard-Lenovo-Thinkpad-... Also… I have a T460p, bought in 2016. Perhaps I've gotten lucky, but it's well out of warranty at this point and we've only cracked the S key. (But the key functions, so I've not bothered to replace it.) The TrackPoint™ nub needs replacing, though, the original power supply failed and was replaced, and my battery is pretty close to dead after ~4.5 years (I think I get ~an hour of life?)

Likes itOwned 3 yearsStill going

Laptop model: Lenovo Thinkpad T460p CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700HQ CPU @ 2.60GHz RAM: 16GB Screen: 14" 2560x1440 usually dock it with a secondary screen Personal comments: * It's my sole computer so I use it for everything, from working to gaming (it has an integrated Nvida 940MX) * The battery has gone shitty after 3 years and only hold 1 hours of charge so I need to buy a replacement. A part from that I really like it. * Previously I had second hand Dell my whole life I don't regret the switch too much even if the XPS 13 is really tempting me. I also hesitate to buy a secondary laptop for my travel abroad which would be smaller and lighter and that I could afford to get stolen but I'm still on the fence. * I find the dock really nice but wish they were cheaper

Recommends itOwned 2 yearsStill going

My lenovo experiences thus far have been mixed. Had a work-provided s540 which was rubbish. Fragile case with blemishes straight out of the factory, so-so performance and battery life, and the main board cracked (literally) just outside of warranty. Replacing that I got a t460p which I’ve had for 2 years now, and that is an amazing machine. Very good build quality, light and compact, while having excellent performance (i7 6700 hq, 32 gb, dedicated graphics), quiet under load and excellent battery life. And it looks like those old-school thinkpads, which is cute. I had heard the T series is good and the S is not, but it’s amusing to experience that myself.

Likes it

I could have kept running the ca. 2015 T460p as my primary laptop--it has 32GB RAM, and decently powerful CPU and GPU--but the T14 is lighter, has much better battery life, generates less heat, etc. etc. Maybe I don't "get it" but I'm pretty happy with the fancy "new" machine.

Likes it

I feel like manufacturers still haven't cracked the 3+ monitor code. My ThinkPad T500 could output to three monitors, way back in 2009 - but you needed to disable Windows' driver signing, and run a custom, patched video driver. Linux on the other hand supported it natively, but you lost the ability to switch between the Intel and AMD graphics cards - it did this by running one display off the Intel card. Luckily, my daily driver (ThinkPad T460p) outputs to three monitors just fine. At work, I've specifically requested that I keep my circa-2019 Intel MBP, because it can support three monitors, but at least one of them must be DisplayPort. They're now giving out MBPs with the M2 Pro, but these only support two external monitors at all, and that's a dealbreaker for me.

Likes it

I’m currently running a T460p and another random Lenovo from like 10 years ago. They both work great. But if I was buying a new one, I’d probably give System76 a try. I know it’s Clevo, but they also appear to have gotten pretty good lately. Plus, Coreboot built in is pretty sweet.

Neutral

A phone, like my other digital devices, is a tool - I try to upgrade my tools only when I can't feasibly fix them anymore, or they by nature can't do what I need them to do. I don't really use my phone much, and go out of my way not to install apps. Though that means I get into some sticky situations, it also means that when I need a new device, I can typically buy last year's flagship at half price. My current phone (2021) is more than enough to meet my needs. Frankly, my phone before that (2016) also was, but sadly none of the corner "fix your battery!" shops wanted to open up an HTC phone. My laptop is a ThinkPad T460p (2016 model, acquired 2019), which replaced a ThinkPad T500 (2009 model, acquired 2012) when said ThinkPad struggled with rendering 1080p video, which replaced an HP nx6325 (2006 model, acquired 2006) when said HP proved itself unable to do video calls at more than a few frames per second. I wouldn't call these things "retro" by any means - those honors go to some other systems in my life. I have a 100-milliwatt FM transmitter, some radios, and Kodi Media Center, in place of a Sonos system. Ditto the Casio calculator watch, instead of a smartwatch - the calculator and other functions actually do get used multiple times per week.

Likes it

I love my T460p, which is a lot like that T440, but a macbook it is not. There are no good macbook pro level screens to be had on those older thinkpads, the trackpad is abysmal, and the machine as a whole is cumbersome to carry around. Also, those 4th gen cpu’s in the T440p are getting long in the tooth, new machines are a lot more snappy (especially single core). On the plus side you have a nice selection of ports (but no thunderbolt) and the best laptop keyboard in the industry, and of course the repairability factor. I’d say that if you’re optimizing for developer comfort, other and newer laptops are better, but getting an older thinkpad is a bit like getting an older car for day to day usage, it is something for enthusiasts or people on a budget who are handy. The pinebook is somewhat underpowered, if someone is considering a macbook and looking at linux alternatives then a system76 laptop or dell xps developer edition is more up their alley budget-wise and will be a far better experience to actually use. I think as a community we sort of have to come to terms with the notion that repairability is dead. All modern laptops are basically mostly unrepairable, and when they break the old one gets recycled to component metals and you have to get a new one. On the plus side, they break less often. Repairable laptops in turn are just not as nice to use, so they will keep losing in the market. I only see this changing through regulation that forces a right to repair, but if that

Neutral

Agreed with the Nvidia Optimus comment. My Thinkpad T460p runs pretty much every distro you throw at it, but the Nvidia Optimus card is almost always the cause of some headaches when something with graphics doesn't work. On the other hand the touchpad driver is better than the official one for Windows(which doesn't support middle mouse click with the center button).

Recommends it

My T460p can do it, my T430 can’t, so it must be between the two I think (if you’re interested in the T series). I can recommend the T460p if you’re looking for a slightly older and affordable model, works very well with Linux and can drive a 4K display at 60 Hz via the Displayport.

Recommends it

I use a Thinkpad T460p maxed out with a Core i7 HQ and 32GB RAM. Its the perfect workstation for me at 14“. I run Ubuntu on it. I suggest you look at the new T470p.

Likes it

* maxed out Thinkpad T460p, i7 with four cores, 32 GB RAM, 512 GB SSD, Ubuntu - its a Workstation at 14" and I use it for software engineering (JVM stuff, Node), but non-company stuff * 2016 MBP 15" Retina with i7, 16 GB RAM, 256 GB SSD for software engineering for the company I work for