Also switching to Linux and new stack. It's never too late to try something new )

I bought this X1 Carbon Gen 8 from Japan as a “Junk” unit.

The battery needed to be replaced, and it also seems to have some weird charging / USB-C PD issue. Even a genuine Lenovo 65W adapter wouldn’t go much beyond ~15W, but after trying a few different chargers I eventually found one that works decently with it.

It’s now running Arch Linux and Denial, the Wayland compositor I’m developing. The compositor is written in Rust, with the desktop shell/UI built in Flutter.

Pretty happy with how this supposedly “junk” ThinkPad turned out.

Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon, i5 11th Gen.

Honestly, I’m loving everything about it. The weight, ridiculously good build quality, overall feel, and especially the keyboard. It just feels like the perfect laptop.

And this is coming from someone who has used a MacBook M2 Air and HP laptops for office work.

The only downside is Windows.

Just bought this L14 Gen 1, and the fist thing I'm immediately doing is getting rid of Windows 11.

Am I welcome to the cult even though this is not a T series? I chose L14 over T14 becaus of the dual RAM slots, I really don't like the ideal of soldered RAM.

Mine has the Ryzen 5 pro, which is a pretty decent 6C/12T compared to some comet lakes out there. What do y'all think? Debian doen't seem to be very popular among thinkpads, all I see is Arch and rice

I really like this linux setup with a windows 95 theme, it reminds me of my younger days watching movies on my old windows laptop

Hey guy, I found a lenovo thinkpad x13 yoga

Here's the specs

INTEL CORE i7 vpro 11th gen

32gbs of ram

Intel x iris graphics

It's 475 dollars

We had a neighborhood garage sale yesterday and I found this guy for $20. It was covered in dirt and grime, while also having windows installed on a slow hard drive. Gave it a deep clean and replaced that HDD with an ssd. Also put GhostBsd on there. It's running crazy fast now! I needed a new laptop badly, so this happened at the right time.

Oh yes it's safe... I adopted another one this time brand new looking x1 yoga 2nd gen for 174 euro It is Lenovo X1 Yoga 2nd gen with i7-7500U 16GB ram WQHD (2560x1440), LED ( I hoped it's the OLED variant but still good screen ) LTE and Intel AC 8265

i5, 8 gigs ram, ssd, fingerprint, expresscard usb 3 (removed bc overheating), wifi 6e/bluetooth 5.3 (ax210), adapter for usb-c charging

I'm a 16y old that owns a t430 a t530 a t470 a t450 and a t540p

And I use fedora + I'm a flutter developer

My dad has a PhD in CS and he made me love computers and now I am a developer and a Thinkpad enthusiast so after all that am I a nerd 🤓

a company was replacing their machines, so I paid only R$800 for it, but here in Brazil it usually costs around R$5,000

I was recently laid off and had to return my work ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 8, which I really liked. I need a personal laptop for job searching, M365 (Excel, PPT, Word), lots of browser tabs, Copilot, GitHub Copilot, Microsoft AI certifications/labs, learning to build agents, light coding and some ML.

It will stay in my home office connected to an LG ultrawide, so I don't care about portability or having something thin/light. I care about speed, performance, RAM and reliability.

Budget is $300 max, preferably less. I have two little kids, so I'm trying to get the most performance for my money.

I've been looking at:

• T14 Gen 3 AMD – Ryzen 5, preferably 32GB
• X1 Carbon Gen 10 – i7-1265U, 16GB

But would I be better off buying an older T14/T-series for $250–350 and upgrading the RAM/SSD? I'm totally fine doing that.

Also, I've never bought a laptop from eBay or Back Market. A lot of people here recommend eBay—is it generally safe if I use a highly rated seller with returns? Is Back Market better?

If you had $300 max for my use case, what ThinkPad would you buy? Specific generations/specs to search for would be really helpful. I'm a Windows user.

I just ordered a used X220 from Japan, really excited for it. My (probably paranoid) concern with used laptops is obviously spyware/malware, but for me wiping the OS and installing Linux feels like it might not be enough. Is replacing the drive a standard practice for security purposes? I may be overly cautious, but the possibility of root kits / BIOS level malware concerns me. This is my first used laptop

Found this gold while thrifting in a yard sale, should I just go for it👀👀👀

I'm planning on buying a ThinkPad later on, and I'm torn up between the P14s G2 (with the T500), or with the same price, I could get a T14 G3 with the Ryzen 5 6650U. I'm from Indo and they cost 7mil here (~350-400 USD).

I'm looking for the best value, but I saw some people mention that the T500 is obselete nowadays, and I'm wondering if it's still worth it.

If anyone has other suggestions in the same price range it'd be great help too (I don't mind chonky ThinkPads too as a suggestion).

I got this off of Facebook Marketplace for $200, it came without an OS because it also came without storage so I took it upon myself to get the both of those. Now that both are installed and fully functioning, I can say that the T14 is a pretty capable machine for my academic needs! Not to mention it came with 32GB of ram :)

Maybe someone can help me. I have a T490 that lives in a dock 24/7. Its sole purpose is to run a windows navigation program on a boat.

Connected to the dock are two marine monitors they are just like a desktop monitor except brighter and they have a dimmer knob. Only one is in use at a time.

While I am navigating the vessel I lose video randomly for a second or two. Then it comes back like nothing happened.

I suspect this to be an issue with the dock. Is there anything I should check before buying a new dock for testing?

The thing is I want to buy my first Thinkpad as secondhand but I do not have a clue what to check before buying it. I am not meaning damages like keyboard is broken type of thing but other things. I would like to know what you are checking when you are buying a secondhand Thinkpad.

I personally own a decently used ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 6 which, if you look on my history of posting here, I've bought fried and replaced the motherboard and battery on. I had the experience to hold and feel both a T14 Gen 5 and Gen 3, but if I compare them in practicality of what can my X1 do against those, it has more features than compromises.

The deeper key-travel is one of the first things you'd ever notice on this X1 compared to a modern ThinkPad, like I can type for hours on this thing and my fingers aren't hurting from it, and I get almost the same typing speeds I have on my Keychron C3 Pro Apex Red switches mechanical keyboard.

Another quirk of my X1 compared to a T14G3, which is what my friend has settled with after we almost got scammed at a pawn shop with the Gen 5 (supervisor password and pawn shop guys we're dumbasses), is both the feel, slimness and the ability to slot a 2280 nvme, 2242 nvme, and a microsd card in one place.

Another difference is be the bigger battery than the Gen 3, having 57Wh instead of 52.3Wh. It's not a major difference, I know, but it is at least half an hour to an hour of battery life. Then there's also the keyboard backlight being dimmer. I can light up my bedroom at night with the keyboard at max brightness on the X1, and even see the keys being light up during the day if i put the brightness at max, but not with the Gen 3 at all. And, I'm not a trackpoint user at all, but I love me some good feeling trackpoint buttons because I physically click those buttons whenever I use the trackpad, it's just feeling better for me to use the trackpad in that combo. And also, the socketed wifi on my x1 vs soldered on the Gen 3. Really Lenovo? Soldered wifi??

Anyway, I just wanna hear some opinions from people regards how they see modern ThinkPads. This whole curiosity came today after comparing what I got on my X1, including how the machine feels like, to my friend's T14, because he peaked my interest in upgrading, but I don't like the modern designs because they still broke that familiarity philosophy.