Hi everybody,
today i got myself a christmas present
Because my son needed a replacement for his broken Macbook Air i gave him my lenovo Thinkbook 14 G2 ITL and got myself a new toy
I found a used Lenovo Thinkpad T14 Gen1 with AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 4750U with Radeon Graphics, 16 Gb RAM, 512 GB Samsung m.2 HDD and Touchscreen from november 2020.
Battery has only 50 cycles and nearly 100% capacity.
I installed endeavourOS KDE this evening and i’m happy with my system.
Compared to my old laptop, even the fingerprint reader works with KDE at lockscreen.
Also the touchscreen works perfect !
Only thing i must adapt myself is: it has an QUERTY Keyboard
For me as a german user a new experience
So i installed the os in english for the first time to go “all in”
Over time i will post my experience with the T14 here.
Some other Lenovo Thinkpad users here ?
Merry Christmas to everybody and greetings from Germany/Bavaria
Andreas
Welcome @kaac128
I don’t have a Thinkpad but I do have a newer Thinkbook and it works great. It’s a 14" non touch screen.
@ricklinux Goof Morning Rick,
i had a thinkbook before the t14 and it is a great device.
Especially that it has 2 m.2 slots.
Only issue was the fingerprint reader. i was not able to make it work.
Now my son installed win11 and the fingerprint reader works in win 11.
Happy holidays !
Andreas
First impressions about batterylife
After installation and first tests i put it into sleep mode at 2am at battery 100%
At 8am started “working” again ( Battery at 95% ), mainly office work and watching tutorials on youtube.
Display at 30%, Governator at powersaving mode.
At 2pm the battery drained to 5% so i plug the powercable in.
So it has about 6 hrs batterylife at normal working conditions. Thats fine for me.
endavouros KDE out of the box, no autocpufreq, tlp, powertop etc.
Update: i switched to gnome desktop and the overall experience is much better. Fingerprint worked very well. The integration of caldav, nextcloud and imap is better than in kde
everything work lika charm. batterylife is still araound 6 hrs