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Reddit · r/thinkpad · 3 days ago

Bought a used T14 Gen 3 with an i5 and 24GB RAM; in good condition, loves it and says it feels premium for normal use.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 3 days ago

Owns an X1 Carbon Gen 12 and calls it one of the best built laptops they have had.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 15 days ago

Bought a used T14 Gen 6 with Ultra 7 258V; far faster than their previous i5 laptop and the battery lasts all day on engineering software and browsing.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 17 days ago

Their T14 Gen 3 has the same palmrest creaking problem.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 20 days ago

Six months with a second-hand Snapdragon T14s Gen 6: great battery life and quiet fans, but the touchpad is very poor, webcam weak and fingerprint reader unreliable.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 20 days ago

Used the company-issued Intel T14 Gen 6 less extensively; it is heavier and bulkier than their T14s and occasionally freezes in Office apps.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 21 days ago

Bought the same T14 Gen 6 secondhand with two charge cycles and calls it the best laptop they have had. On Linux battery is decent but unimpressive at about 5-6 hours.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 21 days ago

Bought a new unused T14 Gen 6 with a 268V and 32GB, added a 2TB SSD, and plans it as a docked Linux machine. Finds the 45% NTSC screen poor and intends to swap the panel.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 27 days ago

Impressed by the Ryzen AI 7 PRO 350 T14 Gen 6 AMD: efficient, with iGPU good enough for older games; battery is about 5-5.5 hours, and the build feels solid.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 27 days ago

Their second-hand T480 had a battery that deteriorated, weak integrated graphics for video editing, and growing reliability issues after about four years.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 27 days ago

Moving from a T480 to a T14 Gen 1 AMD was not a notable practical improvement, though they love the T14 line.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 27 days ago

Owns three T480 units and finds aftermarket batteries okay and inexpensive.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 27 days ago

Loves their T14 Gen 6 AMD Ryzen 7 with 32GB RAM and 2TB SSD, used as a daily driver dual booting Windows 11 and CachyOS.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 52 days ago

Owns a T16 Gen 4 AMD and says it has not crashed regularly while watching YouTube.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 60 days ago

Their T14 Gen 6 runs fine but the fingerprint reader stopped working and a power LED stays lit while off; they plan to send it for warranty repair.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 60 days ago

Had to send four L14 Gen 5s from their workplace back to Lenovo in one week because they would not boot and the drive disappeared.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 66 days ago

Bought the same T14 Gen 6 and runs Debian 13 on it, which works really well with everything needed supported out of the box and stable.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 66 days ago

Owns a T14s Gen 6 running a recent Ubuntu and kernel, saying it looks beautiful and works damn fine.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 66 days ago

Uses the H-series Arrow Lake T14 Gen 6 and finds battery life surprisingly good. Says the fingerprint reader is quick while the IR camera has a limited field of view.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 66 days ago

Runs Fedora Kinoite on a T14 Gen 1, which works great, and calls the ThinkPad very Linux-friendly.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 66 days ago

Their Gen 13 X1 Carbon had its motherboard fail twice and they consider it just not a good computer.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 67 days ago

Bought the T14 Gen 6 after asking the community and is really happy with it so far, planning to move the 256 GB model from Windows to Linux.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 67 days ago

Runs openSUSE Slowroll on a Lunar Lake T14 Gen 6 and is very happy with it. Says any reasonably up-to-date distro works on it.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 67 days ago

Long-time Arch user now runs Ubuntu on the T14 Gen 6 and likes it, citing official Lenovo support and working drivers. Also used Arch and CachyOS on it before.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 67 days ago

Had many problems with Debian on the AMD T14 Gen 5, including WiFi 7 and regdomain trouble, a slow touchpad after sleep and power drain in sleep. Fedora was fine and CachyOS resolved everything.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 67 days ago

Loves their Gen 13 Aura Edition and usually gets through a whole day without charging, keeping the battery limit at 80%. Elsewhere notes it gets pretty hot on the lap.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 70 days ago

Owns a Gen 6 X1 Carbon and loves it.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 70 days ago

Got Lenovo warranty support last month for a new-to-me E14 Gen 6 without needing proof of purchase, confirming the support works for secondhand units.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 70 days ago

Bought a secondhand Lunar Lake T14 Gen 6 a month earlier and says everything is great. Gets about 6-7 hours of light coding on Linux Mint with battery thresholds set.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 70 days ago

Owns a T14 Gen 6 and is disappointed by the battery runtime, getting only 4 to 4.5 hours of general web browsing.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 70 days ago

Used a Gen 11 at work, liked it enough to sell their MacBook Air M2 and buy another with the OLED display; finds the build and power impressive for the size and weight.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 72 days ago

Their T14 Gen 1 with charge capped at 90 percent gets about 5 hours in energy saver mode.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 74 days ago

Uses their T14 Gen 6 for work and privately, never had an issue, and runs local AI models on the NPU at 15-60 tokens per second.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 75 days ago

Returned a T14 Gen 5 among several ThinkPads because of a rattling trackpad and low-temperature solder on the motherboard.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 77 days ago

Just got a T14 Gen 6 AMD second hand and loves how the keyboard and chassis feel.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 78 days ago

Their OLED 2.8k 258V Gen 13 drains about 10-12% per hour on office work with 15 Edge tabs at 50% brightness.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 81 days ago

Used a 2017 X1 Carbon Gen 5 as main laptop for years; it needed a fan replacement and has a dead TB3 port and 58 percent battery capacity but has been an excellent machine.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 82 days ago

Owns an AMD T14 Gen 6 and only reaches about 5 hours of battery, far short of the 9-10 hours others report.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 84 days ago

Runs Linux on their Intel L14 Gen 5 with no problems.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 84 days ago

On their ThinkPad T14 Gen 1 Ryzen the trackpad support under Linux was poor and needed many tweaks.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 88 days ago

Had the same browser freezing problem on this machine, their fourth X1 and by far the worst.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 93 days ago

Just received it; the keyboard has shorter but clicky strokes compared with their older ThinkPads, and the touchpad is much improved.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 94 days ago

Owns the AMD version running CachyOS and really likes it.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 95 days ago

Upgraded their T14 Gen 1 from 16GB to 40GB of RAM to handle heavy Chrome and AI-tool use, and says it now handles everything without hitting limits.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 96 days ago

Just bought a new Core Ultra 7 T14 Gen 6 as their first ThinkPad and is excited, but has already noticed the finish picks up fingerprints and hand marks easily.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 104 days ago

Bought a barely used AMD Ryzen AI 5 Pro T14s Gen 6 for about 420 dollars and runs Fedora on it. Got a Windows-only trading program working through Lutris.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 111 days ago

Four months with a Core Ultra 5 225U T14 Gen 6 for college, coding, Blender and local Ollama; battery gives about 5-7 hours of light work.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 111 days ago

Their old T480 i5 with 8GB handled Blender, After Effects and light games smoothly before they moved to a newer ThinkPad.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 111 days ago

Their T14 Gen 1 i5 performs much worse than their old T480 in Blender, After Effects and light games, with CPU spiking to 95-99 percent.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 111 days ago

A week on Fedora with GNOME on their Core Ultra 5 228V T14 Gen 6: no issues, great battery life, working fingerprint reader and smooth dev tools.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 113 days ago

Bought a factory refurbished Gen 13 and is returning it: lightweight with good battery, but browsers froze and loaded slowly and the fans made a high pitched noise.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 113 days ago

Their T14 Gen 5 AMD with a Ryzen 8840U handles browsers without issues even at 2880x1800.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 114 days ago

Had a 4-year-old X1 Carbon Gen 6 that was good, but the 300-nit screen, small trackpad and fan noise and heat made it miserable to use.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 114 days ago

Bought a Ryzen 5 Pro 7535U L14 Gen 5 in brand new condition for 400 euros and loves it, planning a RAM upgrade and Fedora dual boot.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 114 days ago

Bought a used E14 Gen 6 (Ryzen 5 7535U) for 250 pounds; feels as sturdy as their older T14, perfect battery health, very satisfied so far.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 121 days ago

Their 2019 Gen 5 X1 Carbon with 8GB has a finicky keyboard and freezes when many apps are open, prompting an upgrade.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 126 days ago

Bought a used Ryzen 7 7730U model with 40 GB RAM and 1 TB SSD for about 420 USD as an engineering student; runs Ubuntu with a few Linux hiccups and finds it much better than their old 2017 MacBook Pro.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 127 days ago

On their 258V OLED 120Hz Gen 13 with light work at about 40% brightness they get 10-12 hours in Battery Saver, around 8 balanced and 6-7 in performance mode.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 130 days ago

Two months with the AMD Ryzen 7 350 PRO model; specs and overall laptop are nice, but the single-fan cooling is poor and the CPU throttles daily.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 130 days ago

Their OLED Gen 13 lasts about 4 hours at 100% brightness on browser work but could reach 8+ hours at 60%.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 133 days ago

Calls the refurbished Core Ultra 5 L14 Gen 5 a great and reliable laptop after a few days on CachyOS, with very good battery life.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 133 days ago

Owns the Core Ultra 7 155U L14 Gen 5 as a good mainstream work laptop, but finds the battery poor in Windows and has unfixable coil whine.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 147 days ago

Ryzen 5 7535U L14 Gen 5 with 16GB DDR5 feels fast and snappy, has a fantastic keyboard, a decent 1920x1200 screen and upgradeable RAM; a solid budget ThinkPad.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 147 days ago

Got the Intel L14 Gen 5 a few months ago and loves it.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 150 days ago

Has the same L14 Gen 5 with 32 GB of RAM and plays Hunt Showdown and other demanding games at over 60 fps.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 165 days ago

Bought new, the battery failed after 15 months with an error and a bogus cycle count; the laptop shuts off when unplugged and the warranty had expired.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 167 days ago

Used a T480 and hated carrying a special charger for its dedicated charging port, so mostly charged over USB-C instead.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 172 days ago

Battery capacity fell to 79% over two years, and the laptop lags on basic tasks unless it runs at full performance, which they describe as poor for a modern machine.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 178 days ago

Their unit bricked after a failed BIOS update, was fixed under warranty and then showed the same no-boot behavior again; disappointed after several earlier Carbons were trouble free.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 179 days ago

Loves their X1 Carbon 6th Gen, but its fingerprint reader does not work on Linux Mint and 8 GB of RAM now feels limiting.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 185 days ago

Their WiFi card failed after a BIOS update, which they suspect is an Embedded Controller firmware power issue; as a first ThinkPad it has been a terrible experience.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 186 days ago

Two months in with the Ryzen 5 L14 Gen 5, finding it more powerful than the old laptop but oddly hot with temperature spikes during light browsing despite repasting.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 188 days ago

No problems with their Gen 13 Aura Edition apart from the OLED care auto-dimming of the taskbar, which is sometimes finicky.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 204 days ago

Just got a T16 Gen 3 with the OLED screen; calls it a beauty that will be their workhorse.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 204 days ago

Has a T16 Gen 4 with an IPS panel and calls it a great laptop.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 216 days ago

Runs a T14 Gen 2 with 16GB RAM for university; very fast under Ubuntu and snappy in Windows 11 Pro.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 218 days ago

Currently uses a T14 Gen 6 and has replaced the RAM on it many times, noting that the RAM and battery are replaceable.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 218 days ago

Owns a T14 Gen 5 and confirms it has replaceable RAM.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 219 days ago

Bought a refurbished T14 Gen 2 and found everything great about it, but returned it because it lacked a backlit keyboard they needed.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 219 days ago

Types on a T14 G6 and is still bewildered that it did not ship with the Fn key on the left.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 220 days ago

Calls the T14 Gen 6 AMD amazing, with about 9 hours of battery, upgradeable dual SODIMM RAM and a snappy CPU; the iGPU is only decent and the flat keyboard lacks travel.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 220 days ago

Owns the Intel T14 Gen 6 and is disappointed there is no OLED option, finding the screen dull.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 229 days ago

Their L14 Gen 5 buzzed and rattled from the first boot with very loud fans on one Chrome tab; they found it was coil whine and might return it.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 234 days ago

Uses the Ryzen 5 L14 Gen 5 as their main computer after upgrading RAM and SSD; the 7535U has been more than capable.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 242 days ago

Swapped a flexy T14 Gen 5 for the L14 Gen 5 and found it far better: rough materials but sturdy, no creaking, and comfortable to pick up one-handed.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 246 days ago

Found the T14 Gen 5 chassis flimsy, worse than some IdeaPads with no sense of a magnesium frame, and planned to return it.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 254 days ago

Their two-month-old E14 Gen 7 already has a shiny, wearing keyboard, unlike their old MacBook which still feels like day one.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 254 days ago

Their 64GB Snapdragon X Elite T14s Gen 6 feels as fast as an M4 MacBook Pro, with 12-15 hours of battery on dev work and near-silent operation.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 255 days ago

They use their Gen 12 (Core Ultra 7 165U, 16GB) away from the desk because it is light, but the fan is audible under any processor-heavy work.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 259 days ago

Bought a used T14s Gen 5 with a Core Ultra 5 135U; after a day it has been flawless for university work on Windows.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 261 days ago

Very happy with Linux compatibility on their T16 Gen 4 with a 225U, with zero issues and a fan that is almost always at 0 RPM.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 270 days ago

Calls it a great laptop overall but a step back from their old Gen 1, citing slow boot, Modern Standby annoyances and a plastic body that shows dirt.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 277 days ago

After several months with the Intel 2.8K OLED model: beautiful display, silent fan and no bloatware, but only 5-6 hours of battery, a keyboard finish that wears quickly and so-so build feel.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 285 days ago

Found a Core Ultra 7 165U unit cheaply at a pawn shop and is thrilled with it; it does much more than needed.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 287 days ago

Open-box Ryzen 7 7735U L14 Gen 5 with 32GB RAM; only downsides are the 45 percent NTSC panel and smaller 46.5Wh battery, which they can live with.

Reddit · r/thinkpad · 302 days ago

Five months with the Ryzen 5 Pro 7535U L14 Gen 5: sturdy plastic build with less flex than an X280, long battery life and quiet fan, with minor coil whine and fingerprint-magnet complaints.