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Lenovo ThinkPad X1 5th gen

7owners with an opinion
100%of verdicts positive
2/0positive/negative since 2024
0happy after 3+ years

Praised for value and reliability; criticized for ease of use.

What owners wrote

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Love the Thinkpad line. It's kinda the hackers laptop of choice. > X220/X230 These are pretty solid with dual batteries. Also popular for OpenBSD and 9front, the latter of which I run on an x230 (it stopped charging the removable battery :-/) You can get about 2 hours off the internal and 6~8 with a big fat removable battery, maybe more if the OS and drivers can properly throttle hardware power settings. I have an X1 carbon 5th gen and it's quite light but not useful for 9front without some Ethernet driver tweaking (likely some phy bits need twiddling.) Instead I tossed Debian on it and run 9front in a VM if I need a local CPU. So far it just seems to work including Ethernet (via a dongle) and WiFi.
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The creator is here reading the feedback, and committing code as we speak. I wonder how much HN feedback will help. In any case, this is all a fun experiment! update: between when I posted OP and now, the site went from utter jank in FF to 90% smooth on my 7 year old ThinkPad Carbon X1 (5th gen, Intel HD 620) Nice! This is one of the coolest comment->commit experiences that I've ever had!
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I am not sure what people do with their laptops but I am perfectly happy with a refurbished 5th gen X1, replacement for my t480s, that replaced my t440, after t420s. I never paid more than $500 for a refurbished model. I can choose which kind of screen I am going for never had any heating issues or driver issues with Linux. I've had a MacBook at work, I could afford a framework or whatever when I wanted. But except gaming (don't care and better devices available) and AI/rendering (cloud cheaper in most cases) I don't see why the majority of people seems to think they need $2000 machines.
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And Thinkpads are a) pretty unique in how repairable they are, and b) seen by the public as enterprise workhorses and not sexy or exciting. I personally have an X1C5. I absolutely love it. Best laptop I've ever owned. But I'm still very curious about this thing as it feels like a whole next level in terms of how modular and easy it is to repair while still being lightweight, powerful, and capable.
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Yup I have the X1 Carbon 5th gen (2017) with 1080p screen. If you have a recent enough kernel everything is supported out of the box (except thumbprint reader). It's probably my favorite Thinkpad since the IBM era. Perfect weight, dual USB-C ports, excellent battery life, great display, great touchpad and amazing keyboard (I prefer it to even the IBM era ones). I feel like Lenovo finally got it right.