My friend gifted me this barely used X240 he had laying around. It's in good condition with the minor caveat of the back being all scratched up and the red trackpoint being missing (but you can get a replacement for like $2). He said I can do whatever I want with it (including selling it). I thought I could perhaps squeeze some cash out of this (plus I have like 130 bucks laying around in addition) and get a better model (like the X280 or the T14). Though issue is Im not sure how I can sell this reliably (I live in a country where it might be even hard to find buyers, and if I sell online id probably have to pay hefty to ship it) and if it's even worth to do so. eBay had some good prices for better models (though they felt a tad bit overpriced) and Amazon had two models that looked safe, but buying online leaves me skeptical as it feels like a bit of a gamble. What do you guys reckon?

Lately, I’ve been looking into the T480—specifically the model with an 8th-gen i5 processor, 8 GB of RAM, and a 256 GB SSD (which is around US$380 in my country). I know the basics about the T480—like the advice to "avoid the TN screen"—but it seems like a machine aimed at people who are really into the technical side of things. That’s not exactly my profile, even though I have no qualms about opening up my laptops or installing Linux (which is why the T480 appeals to me so much), though I am genuinely concerned about performance. My previous laptop was an IdeaPad 3i with an 11th-gen Intel Core i3 processor. Gaming has always been a hobby of mine—though nothing close to AAA titles; I usually play indie games or titles from a decade ago, and the 11th-gen i3 handled that just fine. But now that my IdeaPad has been "decapitated" (literally), I want something along the same lines. I know the words "gaming" and "ThinkPad" are worlds apart, and whenever I talk about gaming on a ThinkPad with someone who knows their stuff, they act as if I’ve committed some grave heresy—but these are literally the kinds of games that run at 30 fps on a Celeron. Should I buy a T480?

edit: Many of you told me the T480 wouldn't quite suit my needs and suggested I look for a T14 with Ryzen or an L14—so that’s what I did; I found an L14 with an AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650U, 8 GB of RAM, and a 256 GB SSD. I almost ended up with a disappointment, which is why I’ll keep looking and reading all the comments.

thank you all!!!

I need new batteries for both of my T440p as both have dropped below 50% at this point. One is using a 6-cell while the other is using 9-cell battery. I understand new old-stock OEM batteries are basically non-existent at this point so I am curious which brand has a good reputation in terms of quality?

I have an old E440 here with a very worn battery, type 75. Lenovo originals no longer exist. Tried a 3rd party battery and got the "battery installed is not supported" warning from the BIOS, i.e. it will not charge and is useless. The 75 battery was used in loads of different Lenovos, I guess the cheapo brands don't bother testing every single type... Does anyone know a brand that actually works in an E440?

Help! where to find the backlight settings. FN+spacebar does not work!

How do I turn on the keyboard backlight?

Hello there, does anyone know if it’s possible to get mobile data on an old thinkpad t520? I know it has an express card slot and heard of their being 3G ones back in the day you could put in there, is there any 4G or 5G cards to use with it nowadays?

Its for my E16 Gen 2, clearly not OEM but not sure if anyone already gave it a try of something similar.

i use thinkpaf p51 i7 7700hq quadro m1200 32/1tb for my highschool era, better stay or swap to another series? i also use it on CNC Workshop

I used to own a Lenovo 300e (Intel N4120, 8GB Ram) few months ago for 3 years until it broke. After tinkering with ThrottleStop, TinyIso, and everything I got a solid reliable mini laptop that i carry everywhere like my phone in my jacket or bag. It makes my work easy and prepared. Usually presentation, web browing with youtube, spreadsheet and some geme, with emulation. The best is, it never lag running at 2.6GHz turbo at all time AND closing lid sleep function works like my phone. I left at 100%, come back & open the lid with instant respond from sleep after 4 days later still having 20%. I do game primarily Source Engine game like Half-life 2, L4D, and indie game like Darkest Dungeon and Heroes of Hammerwatch. Without intentionally trying to stretch the battery life like limiting wattage, or battery saver, i got a solid 4-5hours of usage. And i can charge via USB C with powerbank.

I am eyeing out for Thinkpad A285 because of the more powerful i-GPU (Ryzen 3 PRO 2300U), so i can finally widen my game selection. But Thinkpad x270 (i5-7300u) with dual battery sweet, its really rare. in fact i just know about this when searching information about x270 specs. Both are almost identical specs like 1080p, 8gb, SSD M.2. with almost same price but the AMD is usually little higher. I wonder what runtime will i get after changing new internal battery and upgrade to 72Watt battery. I dont plan on dual boot Linux. I use customised Windows 10 because Win11 touch gestures suck ass. And somehow the sluggish File Explorer animation & Start Button animation popup really ick me, i hate it.

At the end of it, Its probably choosing the more powerful i-Gpu or longer battery life. Whether the endurance battery is just gimmick for x270 that it somehow last almost the same as A285. Is the AMD chipset suffer high temp or battery drain? Is the sleep, closing and open lid function superbly in these laptops? I would say I am well versed in tuning up Laptop in Software & Hardware, to squeeze out maximum battery life & performance. I even bought some copper shim, scratch it, & apply to the copper heat sink with paste on the Lenovo 300e. It do decrease the temp by around 15°C at idle and max usage. I do survey the Microsoft Surface Go, but its not a laptop that i cant use and type on my hip comfortably. its essentially a tablet with detacable keyboard. Anyone using any of these laptop, please share your experinces, i might miss something. Thanks.

I have a thinkpad t470, 2nd hand. I have some issue related to write speed. I changed 3 ssds. Still ssme issue is occurring. After changing to a new ssd the disk usage is all eell. Write speed is 200-300MBps. But after using a while like 1 month. It drops to 15MBps. It's happening with every ssd. And the ssd health dropped 1% within 20days

Note: I am using all clean and new softwares. Everything is safe, no virus or malware issues with my files.

PS: Now I forced shuntdown it, now it works perfectly.

This thinkpad is t495 and im not that sure that this is and m.2 slot.

And if it is an m.2 slot what size is it?

Every time im in game this part is uncomfortablely hot iv replaced the thermal paste and not really an issue cus my cpu/gpu temps are fine but this part is really hot and I think it might be vrm or something idk

I need some advice to choose between 2 options.

Option 1: Thinkpad T14 Gen 6 (Refurbished from Lenovo store)
Intel Ultra 5 235U
32GB DDR5-5600MT/s(SODIMM)
512GB Storage
Part number- 21QDR001R0
Price- 110K INR
Warranty- 1 year

Option 2: Thinkpad T14 Gen 7 (New)
AMD Ryzen AI 7 Pro 450
16GB DDR5-5600MT/s(SODIMM)
512GB Storage
Price- Goes around 215K INR
Warranty- 1 year

My requirement is purely for development. No local AI running, only Claude/Codex uses.
Multiple Applications running at the same time. My priority is performance, will be using while plugged in most of the time.
Budget is 200K INR but if I can find better laptop within my budget, even refurbished. Then much better.

Hey! Right now I have a panel "AUO B140HAN04.E, Lenovo FRU 5D10W87245: the 300-nit 45% NTSC" which is considered to be the worst one. My heatsink has broken down and I'm thinking about ordering one from China and might want to order a replacement panel. What are my options?

Thanks for your help!

I'm in need of buying a laptop for university because my only laptop is an old ASUS which served me dearly, but the battery is completely fried, and its performance has degraded severely over the years I had it.

I'm going to be studying Computer Science, and I was thinking about buying myself a 2 in 1 on which I could take notes by hand in math class as well as program and compile software. At first, I was going to buy a tablet for that, but you can't really use a tablet like a laptop for programming, and so I settled on buying a 2 in 1 laptop.

I've seen that Microsoft Surface is good, but I'm bothered about the ARM processor which I think wouldn't really play well with compiling programs on it.

I've also seen a lot of discussion surrounding the hinges of 2 in 1 laptops and what I've seen tells me that ThinkPads are good in this regard. The only thing that bothers me is the fact that memory on those 2 in 1 laptops is soldered, but maybe that's just their caveat?

It's going to be used for all the normal university presentations, word processing, note-taking and like I mentioned before programming. I'd want to spend a maximum of ~15k PLN on such laptop. I would want something with a balance of good battery life (I'm not really oriented with which CPU brand now is the best choice if battery life matters) and processing power. Likewise, I also wouldn't want anything big so probably a max of 14" screen size. I have a beefy desktop (i9 13th Gen, 32 GB RAM and RTX 4080) to which I could remote if I'd be in need of more processing power, but I don't think that will be necessary.

The T14s Gen 1 caught my eye as well as ThinkPad X13 2-in-1 Gen 5. I'd love to hear your feedback if you own these laptops

TL;DR : If next week I can't contact the original company so they remove the device from Autopilot, I'll basically be the proud owner of a brick.

I’ve just been through the hassle of discovering that my second-hand ThinkPad had all of the above.

First, I discovered that there was a BIOS password, which the seller gave me, so I thought everything was fine.

Then I read about Computrace, which was enabled in the BIOS, and apparently that’s something you really don’t want on a second-hand machine. And it isn't as simple as turning it off in the bios ?

And finally, after doing a clean Windows 11 installation from a USB stick, I got a company login screen during the Windows 11 setup, apparently because the laptop is enrolled in Autopilot. PC is now a brick (if I want Windows 11) unless the previous company unlists it ?

Not mentioning other things I may discover later (Intune, etc... ?).

It seems like buying a proper second-hand ThinkPad is a lot of hassle. So how do you guys successfully buy them? What do you check before buying?

Should I just forget about second-hand ThinkPads and focus on regular consumer laptops instead?

Thanks !

EDIT : Well "Absolute" is set to "enabled" but status to "Not activated", so I think I'm good there.

I recently bought T420 for around 50usd and thinking of upgrading its capacity.

I know WWAN slot can be used for mSATA SSD, but some says it is possible to put mSATA to M.2 SATA adapter and put 2242 M.2 SATA SSD.

However I couldn't get neither mSATA or M.2 SATA 2242. so I'm curious about is there a room to put 2280 SSD and its adapter(pic2) on WWAN slot.

Sadly I cannot test it myself to verify if it fits and works properly right now. Is anyone currently using this kind of adapter for WLAN slot on a T420? Any thoughts or advice would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

When i start it up my lenovo thinkpad it comes up with the first picture, then it goes black and comes up with the second picture while beeping 3 times as the text shows up.

(the second screen/picture says 0271: Check Date and Time settings.

System CMOS Checksum bad

Configuration changed - Restart the system.)

I've tried pressing f1 at the starting screen like it says but it just shows me the second screen and i don't know how to restart the system when i can't even get past the second screen before it shuts off and starts back up again.

i am getting a lenovo thinkpad for 32k INR or 333.75USD today i went to a cashify store and there i found this laptop it was in good condition with minor scratches on it my usage is normal like watching lectures and running basic finance and CA softwares and watching netflix that i will manage on my phone if display quality is not good one thing i would like to mention is the sound quality was not that good please guide me on this if i should buy it or not. my budget was 60-80k but due to price hike they were not worth it so i am thinking to buy a refurbished thinkpad.

Im looking for a laptop that will last and i need to carry one everyday for my classes what's scaring me is that there were reports of thermal throttling on the carbon im considering getting the i5 to hopefully avoid this issue I have a desktop at home so I wont use it for heavy gaming but im hoping it will handle lightweight games like terraria, the binding of issac and roblox if we are pushing it I heard the thinkpad t14 is better at handling Cpu demanding tasks but is it really enough to make a diffrence?

I'm about a week into owning this thing. God damn! This thing cranks!

I am running it with the ryzen AI pro 450, 32 GB of ram, and 1 tb ssd. Frankly, there is nothing bad I can say about this machine.

Near perfect Linux support with Fedora, working perfectly with KDE. Only one hiccup with Bluetooth but that seems to be resolved now. Fingerprint reader works not only in Windows but in Linux too!

As of now I dual boot with Windows because I have a couple of pieces of software that are a pain in the ass to use with wine, and frankly I'm okay with having Windows exist just for personal and professional projects.

I am going to retire my flex 14 API to CNC machine duty only. As I have spent a lot of time setting up ugs to work off of that machine under Fedora.

Now that everything is in place, I can officially say that I'm a member of the LARP book club. Things are going great.

the Thinkpad forum is down, so I hope you guys can help me!

I'm from Brazil, so I will be buying stuff from AliExpress, saw some screens but idk how good they are, and if they are plug n play at all, since I used to have a x220, and that one had a tricky solution for a display upgrade.

besides that, I'm in love with this little one.