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Appreciate the detailed response, Lemmy is truly an amazing place to be a part of, thanks to precious people such as yourself 😄

Farmers, too?

Awesome and impressive advice, thanks a lot!

I've actually managed to find a used Carbon X1 Gen 6 (i5-8250U, 16GB, 512) for 310usd so I reordered that instead. I assume the course of action won't really change in this case.

And I'm not too familiar with some of that stuff, do you mind if I ask you the following:

1. Where can I see if Bios is locked?

2. Best way to boot into a Linux environment with a USB? Where can I get a Linux distribution that would work seamlessly from a thumb drive?

3. Is there a testing app for the microphone (it's important for me) and the ports?

4. And what's the fastest way to see the battery health?

5. How to install 'stress'? And how can I watch "/sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp"?

What's truly so much better about it compared to T480? Or 7480

Why would that be better than T480?

I've ordered this ThinkPad T480 with:

• Intel Core i7-8650U processor
• 16GB DDR4 RAM
• 512GB storage
• 14" FHD IPS display
• Integrated Intel UHD Graphics 620

When it arrives, before paying, what would you recommend to check within 10 minutes of receiving it?

Why do you need to use the usb-c docks?

I'm not in the West and buying on a budget so my options are very limited

I mean your position in the company.

Hm, that's good to have such authority on the matter. What's your position?

I'm struggling with people who don't fully understand what this is all about the most.

How's it at your place? What's your experience been with this whole thing