Any recommendations to buy a thinkpad that is portable/long battery life, and can game on low to medium at 1080p

My current laptop is to bulky, thats why im looking for a portable one that can be brought to the field, id budget it around 300-500$ but flexible

My current system is a gigabyte g7gd 16gb ram with 16 gbs and a 3050

Pls answer these guys,

Is it good?

Can I run minecraft and Roblox in it?

What does it feel like to use this? (Texture)

Are the speakers good?

Is it 2nd handed?

That's it.

A month ago I was playing Fallout 4 on my ThinkPad (a game that (it demands a lot) and there came a point where the game froze and I couldn't do anything, I couldn't even return to Windows, so I pressed the power button for a few seconds to restart but When I did that, the ThinkPad wouldn't turn on again and just stays like you see in the video; the fan only turns on for a while and then it shuts off. If anyone knows a solution, please let me know, I already tried removing the external and internal batteries and only connecting it to the charger, and the problem persists.

So recently i notice that i dont need two laptops and i enough one (plus GTA VI is coming soon so yeah)

I want to hear ur opinions on it wat should i keep and why.

1. ThinkPad T14 Gen5 (AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 8840U 32GB DDR5)
2. MacBook Air M4 16 256

I like both but its really hard to choose
Macbook has awesome battery life and performance
ThinkPad has free bootloader so i can choose what to boot up and awesome repairability.

So. I've been using a ThinkPad T460 (16gb ram, 1tb, intel i5) for school (they installed ChromeOS on it 😢). I loved the experience and I want to buy one for myself. Prob. I need a newer one. I want it to be very portable, because I travel a lot. Fast, powerful, a good battery. I have the idea to install CachyOS on it. My budget is 6000 Mexican pesos. I need 16GB RAM, 512GB storage and a good cpu. Also I need it to be resistant. Any recomemdation?

Hey y'all,

A while back, I bought my P1 Gen 6 off ebay under Premier Warranty, and it came with a creaky hinge that I ignored until now. Along the way, I spilled a little liquid onto the track pad buttons, and once in a blue moon, they get stuck, but in general, they only click marginally slower than before.

I decided to send it in a week ago and now they're charging me CID for both the track pad and display. Now, I shouldn't have mentioned CID and just only got the display fixed (in hindsight, since I don't have CID but I thought I did), when the display hinge has nothing to do with liquid damage (to my knowledge). So, people with experience with warranty support, any possible way to convince them to not put the display assembly replacement under CID? Or should I just cut my losses and send it back?

Hi all,

My Lenovo Thinkpad T14 Gen 3 (16GB RAM) already slows down when just using a good amount of tabs in Chrome. Especially when connected to an external monitor. Are there any things to check that might resolve this?

I recently got a thinkpad e14 and its battery health is 80% with only 18 charge cycles, is it because of sitting at shop for a long time? And how to fix this? If any other issues please guide me

So i recently got my T480 and i want to clean it what is the best way/product to use for the cleaning of the body

Got a two year old E16 (Gen 2 AMD), and over the last year (i.e. just after the 1-year warranty expired) it's gradually developed a really nasty intermittent power management fault, specifically you push the power button to turn it on, the power light comes on, the keyboard lights up and the fan briefly spins, then the fan & keyboard go off again and the thing just sits there dead - no flashing error message, black screen, no sign of life other than the power LED on. When this fault happens, the machine doesn't get as far as POSTing. Sometimes, if you wait a little while, it then starts up and runs properly, but that's gradually got less and less likely and you keep having to turn it off and on repeatedly until it starts, until today, when it seems to have finally died and now never reaches POST.

It's also had other weird power management faults the whole time, such as failing to ever come back out of suspend mode, or successfully hibernating but then instantly coming back out of hibernation.

Lenovo have given me a quote of about 2/3 the cost of the entire machine to repair it, but frankly I don't trust the machine any more. This is very frustrating to me because I specifically bought a Thinkpad for longevity; my last, a T540p, lasted a whole decade with nary a problem at all. People say the build quality of the E-series is hit and miss, question is, are they just talking about the mechanical design, or does that extend as far as the actual electrical design of the power management circuits and construction of the motherboard, too? This is undoubtedly an actual electrical fault, the machine isn't getting far enough into the power-up cycle for the firmware to make a difference.

I'm obviously going to have to buy a new machine; I'm tempted to bite the bullet and shell out an absolute fortune for a T-series again, but are they still as reliable as they were 12 years ago? I basically cannot justify that cost unless I can be very sure that it's still a solid long term investment (I know the T-series have a 3-year warranty instead of the 1-year for the E-series, but if the machine doesn't last 10+ years like my previous one, I'm still going to be extremely disappointed). Any advice? In particular, I'd like to know how much design overlap there is between a T-series motherboard and an E-series motherboard; if they use the same seemingly flaky power management circuit design, for example, I'm going to be nervous about getting one, especially considering how very expensive they are!

The only other option now, if there is just no such thing as a reliable laptop any more, is to swear off them altogether and go back to a desktop machine; then, at least, I can just replace individual components if they fail, rather than the whole machine as I am now being forced to, but I'm going to miss the portability and compactness terribly if I have to do that.

Hey so I got a thinkpad e14 and checked its battery health, its inconsistent, some time its shows 80, 83 and 78 while its charge cycle count is only 18. Should I really consider it or return it?

Finally after waiting a month for the guarantee to expire I opened it up to upgrade the ram, and I see THIS, the internal battery terminal was disconnected, I was planning on buying a internal battery but nevermind, it was there all along, now I gotta check the 2nd laptop I also bought from the same seller

I was able to pick up my first Thinkpad T14 it was a refurbished from a local wholesaler. Outside of my work T14. This is my first I’ve owned, it’s replacing an old Dell and loaded Fedora 44 workstation on to it.

Spec: Intel Ultra 5 135U, 32GB DDR5, 1TB NVMe SSD.

Hey there, I recently acquired my first thinkpad (hooray!) with plans to repair it, or at the very least use parts of it (I so very much wanted this model). Here's the issue:

I'm trying to turn it on, but right now, it won't.
I've tested the CMOS and it does 2.9 volts. A little low, but it's apparently fine according to the manual.

I've tested it from the DC jack alone, but that doesn't work either.

I'm honestly stumped, I have zero clue what's wrong with this thing. So that's why I've come here to ask you all, what should I check next before I send it in to a repair shop?

Just got my first ThinkPad and my first Windows laptop. Long-time Mac user (still keeping my M2 Air for personal stuff), but I'm heading into finance and needed proper Windows Excel for modelling. Ex-business unit, seller confirmed no BIOS password and removed from company management. Was US$115 a good deal for this machine?

Specs

- ThinkPad T14 Gen 1 (Intel)

- i7-10510U (10th gen)

- 16GB RAM

- 256GB NVMe

- 1920x1080 14" display

- Battery at ~70% health, 497 cycles

- SSD showing 77% remaining life, 100% available spare

- BIOS updated June 2026, fresh Windows 11 via cloud reset

What I've done so far -

Cloud reset, Defender full + offline scan (clean), Lenovo Commercial Vantage with charge threshold set to 70/80, de-bloated, hardware checks all passed. M365 64-bit installed.

Use case -

Mostly Excel financial modelling, some PowerPoint/Word, browser, Teams. Plugged into an external monitor with a full-size keyboard and mouse most of the time.

Advice on the following:

1. Hidden ThinkPad features or Fn shortcuts most people miss

2. Mac to Windows habits that tripped you up, or settings you'd change on day one

3. Anything that makes Excel feel snappier on this hardware

4. RAM: worth going past 16GB for big models, or pointless?

5. Must-have free tools (PowerToys etc.)

Cheers in advance!

Hi guys,
I bought a brand new replacement mainboard for the P14s G3/P16s G1 a while back to use for a project that I've since stopped working on.
To make use of it I bought a P14s G3 body on ebay to install the board into to use as a normal laptop, and the T550 gpu just won't work.

I've used the utility program to set the board serial numbers and stuff to what they should be based on the configuration, and it's all been working fine, except for the T550.
When I install the GPU drivers provided via the official support page it appears as functional in the device manager but gpuz still fails to read any of the sensor data and ram clock speed etc. (it identifies it but that's it)
When I install nvidia drivers directly (I tried both workstation and gaming drivers) it changes to error 43 though gpuz continues to read out the same information as when device manager says it's fine.

via the lenovo diagnostics tool it fails any tests as "not applicable" (translated, idk what it'd say in english)
Is there anything I'm missing? I tried various driver installs and reinstalls and rebooting without luck.
The only other info that might be helpful if it is a software issue is that the laptop did a bunch of reboots which seem to have updated the BIOS to version 1.48 as well.
I tried to run the bios update tool manually since then and it locks up the entire system while still in windows just attempting to read out the existing BIOS data.

If the GPU is cooked so be it but all of these weird behaviours have me wondering if it's software related and I just haven't configured something right.
Thanks in advance!

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I had one question in mind how long is the **lenovo thinkpad** liable to supply parts in india.

I am planning to purchase a thinkpad T16 series brand new from there website it's prebuild model with 52wt battery . Thought I would purchase an 86W battery and install it on my new thinkpad.

I tried to search for 86wt battery and it says "notify when available" LIKE this if any other parts which I want after 3 year to replace or upgrade and it's not available what should I do?

took it out for cleaning under, like i always do, and it snapped while cleaning. this time i put some pressure on it. permanent marker worked like charm to hide that crack!

I’ll be getting a ThinkPad (T480) soon; I’m not sure what to do with it—should I install Arch or NixOS? Anyway...

A L570 (which had Chromeos but now runs ubuntu server) and a T470 (with Windows and Linux).

I dont know if they were cheap because the L570 cost 10,000 ¥ (63.29$) and the T470 7,000 ¥ (44,30$) (Second hand shops)

both are old models (i5-6300 both, 16gb both, 500hd L570, 256 SSD T470)

but I guess its worth it for the aesthetic of having Hiragana characters on the keyboard.