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The real ThinkPad T480 successor: New ThinkPad T14 Gen 5 is iFixit approved (lemmy.ml)
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Lenovo is doing a reversal when it comes to the repairability of its ThinkPad T series: The new Lenovo ThinkPad T14 Gen 5 features two SO-DIMMs and a user-replaceable internal battery. To prove its progress in modularity, the Chinese manufacturer had it reviewed by iFixit - the new ThinkPad laptop scored a near perfect 9.3/10.

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[–] Rooki@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That the picture shows windows 11 and microsoft copilot is just anti advertising, driving more people away from that laptop.

[–] Diplomjodler@feddit.de 20 points 8 months ago (1 children)

They don't market these to consumers. The corpo buyers will use Windows no matter what.

[–] Rooki@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

My corpo provides now even ubuntu laptops, its probably an edge case but nice that they do.

[–] kif@lemmy.nz 9 points 8 months ago (2 children)

My corpo only provides ThinkPads with Ubuntu for everyone, occasionally macbooks where required for specific applications.

[–] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

And where may I send my resume?

[–] Diplomjodler@feddit.de 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What company is that?

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

Canonical probably.

[–] Diplomjodler@feddit.de 3 points 8 months ago

Let me guess: you're a developer? The average sales droid likely wouldn't even know what Ubuntu is.

[–] Thunderbird4@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Oh look, they put the Ctrl and Fn keys the right way around this time.

[–] velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)
[–] THE_MASTERMIND@lemmy.today 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

They are ? Link me

[–] Saff@lemmy.ml 13 points 8 months ago

Well I look forward to seeing the result. Quite frankly the t14s we have is stupid, the easily replaceable keyboard of the t460 days are long gone, and the WiFi card that has failed 3 times already within my company is glued to the mobo. Anything that lets me do a quick repair myself instead of having to phone a call centre and book a technician will be highly appreciated.

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 8 months ago

At least there will be a somewhat usable laptop to upgrade to when my T480 falls apart. Too bad they went for a small, internal battery. I really like having a big, hot swapable battery that lasts all day. I don't see any mention of an SD card slot either.

[–] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

why is the battery internal ffs

[–] pingveno@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Because external batteries take up precious space to attach. Internal ones can just sit there with maybe a few screws.

[–] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

yeah, but the t480 isn't too thick and it had external batteries

I feel like we're just making laptops thin for the sake of it which I don't like

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

T14s still has a bigger battery than the thicc T14

Why Lenovo why? Please give me the full 100 watt hours in a relatively small laptop again.

[–] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Looking forward to this

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 8 months ago

wtf happened to the camera and the keyboard :(