Lenovo’s New ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability— Repair goes mega mainstream with the launch of Lenovo's new T-series laptops

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• CatZoomies@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I picked up a 2025 P14s Gen 6. Wanted Ethernet and the ability to easily swap both RAM sticks in the future. Apart from the soldered WiFi chip, this computer is by far one of the most modern and repairable ones I’ve seen. Perfectly runs Fedora KDE, too.

  T series are also fantastic, but at the time it wasn’t as repairable given one RAM stick was soldered and the other was replaceable. Also because of the form factor it didn’t have Ethernet.

  Can’t go wrong with a P series if your needs are similar to mine in a computer for long-term use.

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  • SqueakySpider@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I like my P16, but I found that despite being brand new the build quality is a little shoddy. There’s a creak when I rest my right hand next to the track pad, the screen actually overhangs to the side of the keyboard! And a couple other plastic bits seem like they creaked and behaved poorly since I received it. Good components though.

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• cabbage@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  In six years I have burnt through two Lenovo ThinkPads. In the first the USB C charging port malfunctioned, and it turns out the charging port is soldered directly to the motherboard so they had to replace the whole thing. Ever since I got it back from repairs it enters into kernel panics all the time, no matter which distro I install.

  I was in the middle of writing my thesis so I had no time for repairs when it broke, so I ordered mysef a new ThinkPad. I had to choose between pre-assembled models, and I wanted a high resolution display, a good processor, and some other things. I got one with not quite as much RAM as I really needed, and found out when I wanted to upgrade that they had rendered upgrading RAM completely impossible in that model of ThinkPad. It wasn’t even one of the new slim ones, but a traditional bulky one. Complete bullshit.

  Both of these laptops are recent enough that had they not sucked I would still be using them years from now. I’m happy Lenovo appear to be changing their ways, but I wouldn’t touch another ThinkPad with a stick after my experiences with them.

  Currently I’m using a Framework 13. Hopefully it’ll last me decades.

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  • fosho@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I can beat that. in 3 months I went through 4 legion pro laptops. it took 4 tries to get one that wasn’t broken in some medium to catastrophic way. this was my first and possibly last Lenovo experience.

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• Vlyn@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’ll never buy a ThinkPad again after the T16 Gen 1 that I have at work. That thing was overheating from day one, absolutely terrible for a 3000€ business laptop.

  Besides Lenovo’s shitty BIOS issues (which they have tried to fix about five times in the last 3 years), sometimes boot-up still takes a minute to get past the Lenovo logo.

  I don’t even have a lemon or anything, several coworkers have also complained about the same issues. One got so angry he smacked the laptop a few times on his table out of frustration (no actual damage) and forced IT to give him a different more powerful model with better cooling.

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  • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Intel or AMD. Intel purposefully does this. It’s not overheating because it’s hitting 100c, it’s designed to run at 100c in order to turbo boost as much and for as long as possible. Outside of the turbo thick gamer laptops they’ll all be like this unless you put them in a power saving mode.

    AMD is less stupid about this, but still does something similar.

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    • Vlyn@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      i7-1260P, I did try limiting the boost, but the CPU runs like ass anyway.

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  • cabbage@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    My most recent ThinkPad also overheated an insane amount at whatever use I could put it through, and the fan was constantly running full speed. It was like that from day one, and there was no dust or anything, it was just a terrible machine.

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    • Vlyn@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah, the fan control was a mess too, like you clicked the mouse once and that stupid thing randomly ramped up, then immediately ramped down again. Any time you actually used the CPU it overheated anyway.

      I’m actually switching to a desktop PC now at work, that’s how sick I got of this laptop (:

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  • 0x0@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    One got so angry he smacked the laptop a few times on his table out of frustration (no actual damage)

    Built to last.

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• HyperfocusSurfer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Noice. Would also be wonderful if they stopped pouring a shit ton of that nasty black underfill under the bga chips and used some regular red/clear compound around the corners instead like literally everyone else.

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• yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I got a 2nd hand x220 years ago, and it refuses to die. Running cachyOS currently.

  My next laptop will certainly be a thinkpad.

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• Tiger_Man_@szmer.info ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  twinkpads have always been extremly based. writing it from my l540

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• ulterno@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Schematics or die

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• ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They make them that way so ram could eventually go in?

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