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Lenovo’s New ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability— Repair goes mega mainstream with the launch of Lenovo's new T-series laptops (www.ifixit.com)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Beep@lemmus.org to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] Vlyn@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 months ago (10 children)

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.

[–] cabbage@piefed.social 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Vlyn@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months 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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[–] cabbage@piefed.social 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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 pretty 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.

[–] fosho@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months 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.

[–] Tiger_Man_@szmer.info 2 points 3 months ago

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

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 months ago

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

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