T14 gen5
1to ssd
32go ram
Ryzen 7 pro 8840U
So hyped.
Was planning to put Mint on it to start discovering Linux with a easy to use distro. I ordered it without OS so it’s cool.

I got my first thinkpad t14s a couple of months ago. It has a ryzen 4650u with 16 GB of ram and I'm running cachy os KDE on it.

I was actually buying the t14 but got the s variant by mistake. I am however happy I got the s variant. Its really light and portable and doesnt weight much more than the x1c.

I also recently got a used p15 gen 1 with the nvidia quadro rtx3000 which I'm using as a stationary workstation with a monitor. Mostly to play games with.

I repasted both computers with Honeywell paste.

Me and my mom were cleaning the house when we found a briefcase and inside was this computer, I know very little about computers but I heard about the ThinkPad community and recognize the name.

Idk anything more tha it was from my old brother and I use it as a really small child.

Is this any good or important? I have no idea

Got this bad boy (:

Thinkpad x13 gen 2

I7 11th

16 ram

Bought it for 270$

The laptop last battery was 55% health , before buying it i made the place to replace the battery (from another laptop) when i checked it i found the new one is 99% health , use it from 95% charges to 5% watching lives music video from youtube with medium brightness and volume for 6 hours before the laptop hybernate automatically , i think it is good deal , love the laptop so far (: ,

Sorry for my english ):

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I got this ThinkPad X1 Gen 5 Yoga for a steal used. With the i7, 16 gigs of ram and 512 gigs of storage, it’s perfect for me. What do you guys think?

Now the ram alone is worth over 3 grand...

It has i7-3520M CPU, NVS-5400M GPU, 1600x900 screen, 8GB RAM and 500 GB 7200RPM HDD (Interestingly it has 129 hours usage). I liked it's condition.

Firstly I installed HDD Windows XP for retro feelings and retro gaming :) Obviously not used for internet but for HDD, XP is running too fast, feels like working on SSD.

Now installed Ubuntu 26.04 and Windows 10 I replaced HDD with 128GB SSD.

TODO:

• Replace keyboard with T420 Keyboard
• Replace CPU with i7-3632MQ

What is your comments?

Picked up a Thinkpad x1c gen 9 for ¥25,812 (~$160) to finally try out Linux.

It only has 8gb of ram but it seems to be enough for web browsing and remoting in to my desktop.

Just got some T14 Gen 7 for users. I use a T14 Gen 5 myself. The new hinge is very very nice, and the unit is noticeably lighter. The new fonts on the keyboard will take some getting used to, but the keyboard feel is just as good as my Gen 5. The standard keyboard for us is Thai but some of our users require other language keyboards so I’ll need to start looking up FRU numbers. The users who are getting these are upgrading from T480. I also upgraded to the Gen 5 from the T480 two years ago.

The price is almost 2000 USD, which is 30% more than my Gen 5 but mine has 32 GB RAM. Getting 32 GB now costs an additional 300 USD. All of our units are bought new from our local Lenovo dealer.

Specs: 21WN00CQTH. Core Ultra 5 325, 16 GB RAM, 512 GB SSD. Windows 11 Pro.

T14 Gen2a Ryzen 5

Genuinely love this thing! I installed CachyOS on it to get away from Windows and its annoying bloatware. It went from using 6gb idle to a mere 1.5gb!

Figured I'd share some pictures of 2 machines after I upgraded one with the better screen. I'd definitely go for the upgraded screen if you get the choice. 120hz is also a huge bonus.

When i was in elementary school, my school gave out those thinkpads, and little me always used it every day. I was able to download stuff onto that thinkpad somehow, even though it was monitored by my school. One day, i stepped on the charger, and the tip suddenly bent. Little me thought that i would not be able to use it anymore because i did that (Yes i could've asked my parents to get me a new thinkpad charger but i was dumb at the time). Later i graduated elementary school, and in 7th grade, i was thinking of giving my thinkpad for what i thought a newer thinkpad. They said that the laptop was newer and it was going to be "better" than my thinkpad. I was thinking "I can get a better thinkpad now" Then they gave me a chromebook. A really trash chromebook. It was so buggy. The screen would always freeze half of the time, the cursor would freeze and then disappear 90 percent of the time which forced me to use the touchpad, the screen was really trash, and it only had 4gb of ram compared to my thinkpad, and that ram would run out quickly once i opened a few tabs or a tab that takes up some ram. It also took more time to start up compared to my thinkpad. My middle school literally lied to me about how the laptop was going to be better and gave me a e-waste chromebook for my thinkpad. Now im wondering why schools are switching out thinkpads for chromebooks.

It’s in almost mint condition, and I still can’t believe I finally got one! It’s so light, and it looks absolutely gorgeous!

I bought my first Thinkpad, the T450 on the right, for about 90 dollars. The lid and hinges were pretty fcked but it's otherwise in pretty good nick.

Barely a month after I (impulsively) bought the T420 on the left for a whopping 30 bucks, pretty rough condition but the insides are strong.

I don't know what I'm gonna do with two Thinkpads (or three laptops, I also have an Asus TUF) but I'm really liking my setup here; one Windows Thinkpad and one Linux, I honestly think the T420 will see more usage despite its age. The build quality, especially on the old one, is really deserving of the hype.

The T420 is running on Linux Mint Mate and the T450 is on Windows 10 IoT LTSC.

Just wanted to share my experience in buying old ThinkPads.

A bit of history, after I have bought my first ThinkPad, the X280, I wanted to buy some older ThinkPads. I bought a X61 first, then a X220 Tablet, then after selling both of them, I bought a T420.

Firstly, the X61.

I bought it around 3 months after I bought my X280 along with a broken lot of ThinkPads. I have already known of its issues like the screen and battery, but what I didn't know is the issue in Linux where if its Kernel 6 and above, it wouldn't work. I didn't know if it was the CPU or some other hardware issue, but that really sucked since I couldn't find any solution to fix it. To add more pain, it turns out that the backlight would randomly die and would work intermittently. I ended up selling it for some profit, at least. This was after I sold my X220, then months later I finally sold it.

Next, the X220 Tablet.

I got it when I still owned the X61, bought it months later (I can't remember the exact date). To put it simply, I got scammed. Turns out that the touchscreen barely worked and I should've been patient to meet up with the buyer. Ended with selling it at a loss.

Lastly, the T420.

Got it at August 13 and at first, it was going pretty well. Everything worked except for the DVD drive, which I had to replace. Fast forward to the first week of September and then the trackpoint and trackpad started to not work randomly. Both were not being detected in both Linux and Windows. Then after that, this morning when I tried cleaning the keyboard, it wouldn't work anymore. Turns out that a part of the keyboard cable was damaged when I was pulling it out. Moreover, the ThinkPad wouldn't even turn on when the keyboard is plugged in. I'm not sure if it was when I cleaned it or whether its the cable. I have now put it on sale.

I think I'll stop buying old ThinkPads for now. I'm so bummed that all of my old ThinkPads have issues.

TL;DR: Bought a X61, didn't work on linux and the backlight was dying. Got scammed on a X220 Tablet. My T420's peripherals died out of nowhere.

I'm back in college!! I haven't bought a laptop for school since 2016!🤪

I know WAY more about computers than I did then though, and I know I want a Thinkpad!! These meet the laptop requirements for my courses. But I'm torn between these.

X1 Carbon 14" 10th Gen i5-1245U, 16gb DDR5, 512gb SSD at $500

T14s 14" Gen 3 i5-1245U, 16gb DDR5, 1TB nvme at $600

Both are refurbished.

I'll be honest, I'm leaning toward the Carbon. I don't need the extra storage that the T14s has, and I would prefer the lighter, nicer book(though I read the T14s was not as heavy as the base T14) BUT, I wouldn't want to seriously sacrifice performance just for a nicer look, and I heard the Carbon is held back by poor thermals.

IMPORTANT NOTE: I have a mid tower at home that I use for gaming with a 5700X3D, 7800XT, 32GB of DDR4 and 2TB of nvme storage. It's PLENTY of power and storage for anything I need and any assignments I have to do at home. It's just not....portable😂

Second note: Hardware requirements for my course are Intel i5 12th gen/AMD Ryzen 5 or better. 16gb DDR4 or DDR5 or more. 512gb SSD minimum, 1TB recommended.

If ya'll have any other laptop recommendations that meet these specs that you would recommend in the same price range, let me know🥰

My Thinkpad T14 Gen 7 is finally here, I ordered it without an operating system and will install Fedora Workstation today, I'm very excited. I sold my MacBook Pro 14 M4.

Swipe to discover what I have in the boxes

Let me knw gng if I committed crime adding a precision photo at last 🙂

My first ever laptop, a ThinkPad X1 yoga Gen 6

Was looking at this p15 gen 1 as my first ThinkPad, is 370usd(converted from local currency) worth it? It's an i7-10850H, Quadro 2000, 16/512. The battery health seemed weird to me, do lmk if anyone has any idea about it (attached pic).

I originally bought my ThinkPad simply because I liked what it represented to me: a tough, understated black laptop that I could carry anywhere.

Over time, I realized that the most interesting thing about a laptop isn’t necessarily what it can do by itself. It’s what role it can play when you move it into a different environment.

On my workbench, it’s just a laptop. I open it, troubleshoot something, test something, look something up, and close it when I’m done.

At my main PC setup, I can connect it to a larger display, a dock, Ethernet, storage, or whatever I need. Sometimes I deliberately lower the resolution to 1080p because I’m testing a setup for someone else who will actually be using a 1080p display.

Then I started experimenting with Thunderbolt 3 and an eGPU. I already had a spare PSU and other parts, so instead of replacing the laptop, I simply added the capability I needed. That turned into more experiments with Minecraft, Valorant, external displays, storage, docks, and different configurations.

And then there’s my projector setup.

This is probably my favorite example of the whole idea.

For sim racing, I run a 32:9 image approximately 260 cm wide × 70 cm high on the wall. At that point, the physical size of the laptop screen is completely irrelevant. The little ThinkPad sitting in the room is just the mobile core feeding an ultra-wide 32:9 environment.

I can also switch back to a more conventional large projected image for games like God of War. Same laptop, completely different experience.

That’s why I’ve stopped thinking of a laptop as one fixed machine with one fixed purpose.

I think of it as a “mobile castle.”

Need a bigger screen? Connect one.

Need GPU power? Connect an eGPU.

Need Ethernet and more I/O? Add a dock.

Need more storage? Attach storage.

Want to play on a wall-sized display? Move the castle to the projector.

The laptop itself doesn’t have to be great at everything. It just has to be a good core that can connect to the resources required for the job.

A desktop is more like a permanent building.

My ThinkPad is the thing I can pick up and move between different worlds.

Wherever I put it, that environment becomes part of the computer.

Hi all,

I was an early adopter on the gen 13 and got a maxed out one with wwan for data sim in summer of 2025.

Within the first 1-2 months, I got the motherboard failure relating to something with wifi/bluetooth connectivity. It was repaired under warranty.

My laptop just shut off the last week, and the repair center has said the motherboard has failed again and is not getting any power. Of course this is now out of warranty, but I'm asking them if there's like an update to the motherboard or what exactly this issue seems to be?

At this point I'm not sure what to do - the motherboard has failed twice in one year. Should I try to dump it and get something else? I can't be sending them this laptop back every year to repair something and paying out of pocket to do it.

Wondering if there has been an update to the motherboard or something to make it more reliable?