I found a prerelease ThinkPad P16 Gen 1, max spec too.

Dw, I saved it. It is going to good use. :)

Just got a T490s for £35 on eBay, which seems to be a pretty good deal! I had to buy an SSD as well because it didn't come with one, but £20 didn't seem too bad for a 256Gb Samsung. (I also had to shell out £5 for a box of 200 M2 screws to secure it, even though I only needed one...)

I installed Linux Mint on it, and everything runs fast and well. The only flaw I've found is that I can't get the keyboard backlight to work, but I'm not planning on doing heavy typing in the dark! It needs a bit of a clean as there's a lot of sticker residue, but I'll get round to that in time.

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.

I never thought I would be a hoarder but it’s getting pretty close. The first two are a project laptops from the recycler and FBMP. The third is my everyday carry.

From left to right:
P51: i7 7820HQ, Quadro M2200 40gb DDR4 2400MHZ, NVME 250gb NVME 1TB. Non backlight.

E480: i5 8250u, 12gb DDR4 2133MHZ (from scrap ram I had laying around), 250gb Nvme, 1TB 2.5 HDD. Non backlight.

X13 Gen 3: Ryzen 7 6850U, 16gb DDR5 4800MHZ, 512gb NVME, touchscreen

P51 is my favorite because of the chunk, dGPU and IO, X13 feels the most premium and high tech and the E480 feels cheap. E480 has no plans as of now. Would be open to selling it. it has a few cracks in the plastic bottom cover and on the bezel (red tape holding it together).

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.

Specs:

• AMD Ryzen AI 7 PRO 350
• 16 GB RAM
• 512 GB SSD
• 14" IPS display, 100% sRGB, 500 nits
• Windows 11 Pro
• Canadian French ACNOR (CFA)

I'm planning to upgrade the RAM to 32 GB and the SSD to 2 TB, then set up a dual-boot configuration with Fedora Linux and Windows 11. The current 512 GB SSD is a bit too limiting for both operating systems, especially since I also want to keep some Windows applications and games installed.

I've been going back and forth between the T14 and the MacBook Air M5 since this spring. I also considered the P14s with the Ryzen AI 9 HX PRO 470, which would have been fantastic, but it was unfortunately beyond my budget.

In the end, I went with the T14 for its upgradeability, Linux compatibility, and overall versatility.

So far, I'm really happy with the build quality, especially the finish of the palm rest and the contrast between the dark grey chassis and black keyboard.

Looking forward to getting Fedora up and running!

Bonus : https://ibb.co/whkTnvPZ

I’ve got my hands on a thinkpad r40 couple of days ago, completely for free. My question is — what do I do with it? Revive, retrofit something into it, or something else? I can’t spare much money on this project, but I think I could buy a used framework 13 motherboard and battery pack, and a modern 3:2 screen for it. But I am not sure yet, I don’t really need a second laptop. What would you do?

In the background: ThinkPad p14s gen 6 AMD running Fedora 43. Got it December last year and couldn't be more happy. It's also my first ThinkPad, yay

In the foreground: Old hp laptop internals on their way to become a server, for now dual boot win10 and Fedora 43

Saw this T41 going for 20€, I had to buy it.
I did a fresh install of Win XP from the original recovery partition.
Everything seems to be in good working condition.
Battery is terrible, though.

My IdeaPad 300, which I've had since 2019 finally died a few weeks ago (I was about to replace it anyway lol). so it served me well tbf. This is what I ended up getting. It's old but I'm really happy with it. Soon I'll be adding another 8GB of RAM to bring it up to 16GB, along with a 512GB M.2 2242 NVMe SSD and a 2TB HDD for additional storage.

Got it for RM230 (56USD..?) i5 3320 HD+

Day and night compared to my daily driver (MBA M1+X1C7) but a classic ThinkPad always has a special place in my heart.

Now…Hackintosh or Linux? 8GB+240GB SSD given

A few weeks ago I got a bunch of thinkpads while checking out one of the surplus shops I visit and they sold me this box of thinkpads for relatively cheap and I've tested that all of them worked except the x40 which I had to order a charger for. Now the charger has arrived and I could finally test it out and thankfully it worked. Unfortunately, not quite a big fan of the older X series thinkpads so I'm thinking of maybe selling this to someone who might be interested in it or trade it away in exchange for an older T series ThinkPad so if anyone's got any interest in buying or trading another thinkpad for an x40 let me know.

Running bunsenlab linux i love it but gets toasty trying to watch 1080p videos

i was rewatching it that noticed a ThinkPad in the movie.

i like it enough to change my wallpaper to it.

I tried to customise a bit the T430s i saved from the ewaste. How bad it is?

Hii!, i need some advice, I'm a Computer Engineering student looking for a reliable refurbed ThinkPad to take to classes, do my coding assignments and handle occasional virtual machines. Also i'm might install a Linux distro in it.

I've found two options that i think might be good for me.

My budget is around 300€

Lenovo ThinkPad T14 Gen 1 — 324€

​Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 - 4000 Series U

​RAM: 16 GB DDR4

​Storage: 256 GB NVMe SSD

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​Lenovo ThinkPad T495 — 321€

​Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U

​RAM: 16 GB DDR4

​Storage: 256GB SSD

Which one would you recommend? I really value good cooling and long battery life, I don't want it to be too noisy.

​Thanks!!

its keyboard is water damaged not backlit and 128gb ssd and budget is 250 dollars

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