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.
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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.