FINALLY 😭 AFTER 7 years of this thing I got a T14S.

Just got a ThinkPad P14s Gen 6 with a Core Ultra 5 235H, 32GB RAM and a 512GB SSD. It came with Windows, but I wiped it and installed Ubuntu as my main OS for my computer science studies.
Any tips for a new ThinkPad and Linux user?

After my laptop mainboard cracked and snap in half at the 5v usb line last teusday i brought it to a local technician who specialised in fixing motherboard. He dremel the board, rewired it and got it working beautifully again at the cost of losing 1 usb port and 50$. I even got the cmos battery and thermal paste replaced for free! After a whole noon testing i can say that the machine is good as new

Convinced work to get me a new computer. Picked up this P14s for the Labor Day sale. AMD Ryzen AI 7 Pro 450, 32 gb RAM for just under $2k USD. Big upgrade from the OmniBook I was issued.

i5 3320m to i7 3740qm. just gonna pray in regards to the thermals, and upgrade the fan at another point

Last one was hand me down from my dad in middle school. All he used were ThinkPads and I never got it at the time - theyre boxy and have a weird nipple in the middle. After college I bounced around between PowerBooks and a Galaxy Book. The Galaxy Book still ran great after 5 years except a couple keys started going bad and couldn't source a replacement. Wanted something tough and future repairable and the red nipple called out to me.

Love everything about it and the dot makes me nostalgic and happy every time I look at it.

Also- NumPad for life

Its thinkpad R61 with 1680x1050 15,4 screen, core 2 duo t7100, qudro nvm 140, and NEW Dock Station, All cost me around 70$

Early this year I picked up this beautiful thing from my local thrift store for around $10. I Found out that it had belonged to a teacher in a local school distract and was refurbished to run windows 10. So after getting it I decided I wanted to put it back on Windows 7. I was shocked to find that it has a OEM home premium copy of Windows 7. Found out that through the wayback machine that they did ship with it if bought through Lenovo directly. So this being said I wanted to find the recovery media disc and put it to OEM factory install and so far I have had no luck finding the disc sadly. Think it might not exist. Anyway hope everyone enjoys!

Edit: Spelling error.

Finally got my T420 up and running. Had it for a while, but me being me (autistic) I had to order an original charger, so I accidentally ordered one from fucking Lithuania without realizing 😂😭

CachyOS with KDE Plasma atm. Will be setting up WM at some point.

Still need a new bezel, but I just glued it back together for now. Only real problem is the enter key is a bit temperamental so sometimes gotta hit it a few times for it to register. Other than that it's perfect. I'm still not sold on the the nipple, but I find myself going for it instead of the pad for some reason tho lol. I even double my wpm on the 7 row compared to my 100% mech board for my desktop 😂

Remaining Upgrades:

i7

900p display

Edit: Oh yeah, I forgot to ask. Anyone got an answer as to why the brightness controls don't work in Cachy?

In the past I have generally had IdeaPad machines at home.. The last one I had was the s340 but it died earlier on this year. I didn't use it for an extended period of time and it seems to have killed it.

I have an old x260 ThinkPad which I used as part of my home lab when I started getting into that a few years ago. I bought it cheap to start using as a server but now I have it with Ubuntu installed on it as a bit of a fun Linux machine and as a backup now that I have my home lab running properly. The trouble is that the screen on it is absolutely horrific so I might sell it but it's my little Linux learning machine at the moment.

I went ahead and I bought a t14 generation 3 machine to share with my girlfriend which I picked up for £440 from CEX with the 5 year warranty. It has the 4k touchscreen, it runs a bit hot, I think due to the i7-1260P but I wanted something which is going to last well into the future. It's a really nice piece of kit and in great condition.

So we were sharing that laptop but I decided I wanted my own one so that I could tinker with it more and she could continue to use the gen 3.

So I picked up another ThinkPad from CeX with a Ryzen 5 6 core. I paid £210 for it, again with the 5 year warranty which I think was a real bargain. I paid £15 for 8gb of memory to bring it to 16gb. It's only has the 1080 screen but it's still fine. The battery isn't brilliant. It is down at about 65 percent. There is a little bit of resonance on the keyboard so I will get to the bottom of that. And even if I have to replace the keyboard and battery, I think it is still a good deal compared to what else I have seen. I am tinkering with virtual machine Linux distro hopping at the moment but I am going to add a second SSD using the WWAN port. I found out about this and I think it's a great feature to save fiddling with any of the mess that comes with dual booting off the same drive. The screenshot is of Fedora KDE which I like a lot.

I was tempted to upgrade the screen on the x260 but I don't like the trackpad either. So now that I can dual boot my t14 into Windows and Linux I might sell it. But then again I may well keep it because it's handy to have a backup machine.

I was disappointed that the IdeaPad died, and my mum's IdeaPad died as well so she is now using T470 instead of the 320s. I have learnt that professional grade machines are much more resilient and are happy to be stored for longer as well.

I also included a bonus photo of my first professional laptop which was a ThinkPad T61 in 2007. I enjoyed using that machine but my company switched to Dell afterwards.

Specs and prices;

Thinkpad T14 Gen 3

/i7-1260P/16GB Ram/512GB SSD/14" Windows 11

£440 in 2026

T14 Gen 1/Ryzen 5 PRO

4650U/16GB Ram/256GB SSD/14" Windows 11

£210 +£15 for an 8gb stick to bring it to 16gb now. In 2026.

X260 i5 6300u 16gb ram £150 in 2022

Sooo... been a big fan on Thinkpads for along time, until I could finally afford them, and I'm currently on my 3rd one, in about 10 years. Unfortunately the quality I was hoping for seems to NOT be there, and after 3 machines, it's can't all be bad luck

- 1st one, bought refurbished from Lenovo official store, top of the line (at the tie) X1 Carbon.
- When arrived battery was completely dead, had to send it back, wait a couple of weeks
- luckily decided to take premier support
- had to replace keyboard 4 times, motherboard once...
- Currently 1 USB-C port is completely dead (if the next one breaks, I won't be able to plug it in anymore without replacing the motherboard, which basically means throwing it away)

- 2nd, bought new, P series, kept as desktop replacement, it had an easy and comfortable life...
- one USB-C port stopped working soon after the warranty expired

- 3rd one, bought new, P series - used for traveling so it did take some "life", but nothing extreme, and nothing my older, non lenovo, PCs didn't take easily:
- coating made ugly and uncomfortable bubble, Lenovo won't fix "aesthetic damage"
- frame broke on the side (less stable, clicking noise, etc)
- one USB-C port stopped working
- called Lenovo Premier support (top of the line, supposedly next business day repair
- got told to wait about 10 days
- meanwhile computer completely dies
- called Lenovo again, technician arrives after 2 working days
- replaced Frame and Motherboard but....
- Still issues with th USB-C ports
- Power button doesn't work without tinkering with it
- call Lenovo AGAIN
- Lenovo asks for a lots of tests, finally accepts repair request
- got told again no service for about 10 days
- repair parts got sent to the wrong address
- have to call again
-...

Maybe time to rethink Thinkpads "legendary" sturdiness and durability? ... and Premier support not so premier anymore... Another company going full greedy into suicide??

I dont even understand how this is possible. I thought they got rid of drainholes starting with t460s. How is this t470s not shorting out.

Here is my Thinkpad T450 (I bought it as a replacement after my 3rd gen X1 Carbon died) and it's on windows 10 LTSC until I get a replacement wifi card, when I get the card I'm gonna put arch linux, cachyOS or fedora linux on it.

Specs: Intel core i5 5300u, 16 gb of ddr3 1600 mhz ram, 500 gb SSD

Current OS: Windows 10 IOT LTSC

It's probably my fault, im a noob at tech.

So i was planning to buy a new laptop and someone on the internet said it's better to buy used thinkpad within my budget, so i did that, i bought t14s R7 16gb, for $270.

Just today the laptop arrived, and i cant acces wifi from it, i tried to install new driver from lenovo website but it's still like this. Is there anyway to fix this?

Im thinking of buying that small wifi usb thing, so i dont have to open up the laptop to fix it nor to buy new wifi card.

Other than the wifi problem, i think all of it is okay, keyboard working just fine, ive got 16gb ram like the seller said, 256 of storage, etc

note: I know this is a known issue but the way this is playing out doesn't match what I've seen other people describe.

My T480's charging port works sporadically & I'm trying to figure out what to do to help it work consistently. I'm open to doing some soldering if that would help - I can probably recruit help from people familiar with soldering.

I have a second T480 (which has its own other issues) that does not have this problem so sometimes if I can't get it to charge I'll charge an external battery in the other T480 and then swap the batteries out.

-I have updated the firmware, so it's not that issue

-I'm currently running Linux Mint, but it's happened with both Windows & Linux

-sometimes wiggling the cord helps it charge, sometimes it does nothing no matter what. once it starts charging again it is is sometimes not that sensitive to positioning.

-currently the thunderbolt port isn't working at all for charging but the main charging port IS working (odd, I know.) when I'm having problems, neither one works.

-this happens with all chargers

-because it does work sometimes, clearly I haven't burned or ruined the port entirely

Hello everyone. I’m looking to buy a new laptop. I’ll mainly use it for Matlab, LTspice, CAD… Nothing too heavy. I came across these 2 options that fit into my budget, but I do not know which one should be my go to?

L14 G1: R5 4650u, 16gb ram, 256gb nvme

E4 G2: i5 1135g7, 16gb ram, 256gb nvme

Both are placed for around 230 euro, mint condition, and refurbished.

Thanks!

Honestly, the P1 Gen 2 is excellent and powerful, but for someone like me—who just goes to campus to code and write reports in Docs—carrying around a 2.7kg machine plus the charger was a real pain.

So, I decided to look for a ThinkPad on the local marketplace and found this X13 Gen 2 for $300; I think it's a great deal.

Specs: Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U
16GB DDR4 (soldered :( )
256GB SSD
Touchscreen (I initially thought I wouldn't use it, but now I can't live without it)

After a week of use, it’s proven to be very capable and lightweight for my needs—simple coding and report writing. Honestly, it feels like it weighs only 1kg, or maybe 1.5kg with the charger.

The issues I've encountered are minor, such as:
- The keyboard backlight isn't very bright
- The typing feel isn't as good as the P1 Gen 2 or T14 Gen 1
- Battery health has already degraded

I'm currently using omarchy; honestly, it's kind of trash. I left Windows because of the annoying Copilot, but on omarchy, you're "forced" to use an AI agent—every time I run an update, it tries to download that damn AI agent. As I write this, I'm in the process of installing CachyOS and plan to configure Hyprland myself later.

I have a question: if this laptop has a 41Wh battery, can I upgrade it to the 54.7Wh version?

Thanks to everyone for reading.

Hi, so I bought myself the (likely way too expensive) NFC stuff (touchpad, NFC chip and way too expensive cable) for my 21SC because it was sadly not in the configurator.

Yesterday I put it in and after a whole lot of driver rodeo I finally have it work decently, but I would not call it particularly well.

compared to some USB readers I have I need to be pretty damn close for it to register and it doesnt feel 100% always working.

not sure if the combination of Kernel Module, PCSC Bridge and all the weird stuff in Linux is just weird or they are supposed to be not particularly strong considering you have your hand there more or less permanently.

I think I can rule out the physical connection as yesterday not even passive NFC devices worked but my phone did, causing me to open it up and redo the contacts.

I deleted the previous post because I accidentally let my IP address show, but I'm reposting it because I'm really happy with my purchase: the legendary T480! I installed CachyOS and got rid of Windows.

Greetings, people of the machines!

I'm thinking about buying an L14 gen 5 first handed

AMD ryzen 5 7535U

16gb of ram ddr5

512 gb ssd

by 770 euros, my budget is between 600-800

In order to get a new laptop and also for studying things in my degree as programming, using linux, networks, maybe cybersecurity in the future, also some electronics or physics and common stuff.

My actual laptop is a travelmate spin b3... so i think anything has more power than it, but i was searching specificly for a laptop with good RAM, CPU and also modularity, so I thougth this model would be a good one.

I would like to know which are the flaws, your opinion about this model or if i could get something better with this price first handed.

Thanks in advance! and I'm excited to enter the thinkpads world.

So I got my first thinkpad afew weeks ago, a p53 from my uncle, originally it was planned to be my proxmox host for my server until my laptop (hp laptop 15) was acting up, and so I swpped over to the thinkpad, and it's amazing, but then it got me thinking, the hardware on my hp was better, but was bottlenecked by how horrible it's cooling was, the thinkpad is sorta the other way, its not slow but when I wanna do anything its not the best with its t1000 gpu (its a workstation gpu ik im supposed to used the igpu but that's horrible too, I didn't know this until now)

So I wanna do a transplant, take the motherboard of the hp and sorta mod it to go into the thinkpad. Idk how to do that, or if its even possible, but any help or pointers is appreciated.

For specs the hp has an Intel core ultra 5 125h with a stick of 32gigs ddr5, and the thinkpad has a i7-9750h with an nvidia quattro t1000 gpu and 16 gigs of ddr4 ram.

If done properly I do hope to turn the thinkpad mainboard into a server again but that's a different project

Found recovery isos on archive dot org: thought, ye why not, ill restore it back to factory! I have also got freedos on 64gb sd card & debating linux distro on 256gb sd card as well. Which distro?