đź’» The Joining Of The ThinkPad Cult Is Now Complete

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As I mentioned in the “Show Us Your Purchase” topic, I won a Lenovo ThinkPad T14 on a local online estate sale auction. Only paid $131 (U.S.). It arrived today! Damn thing looks close to brand new. Powered on, Windows of course. Can’t wait to make sure BIOS is up to date and wipe Windows off this new-to-me T14!

Lenovo ThinkPad T14 Gen 1.

  • Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 4750U (8 Cores / 16 Threads, 1.7 / 4.1GHz).
  • Memory: Up to 32GB DDR4-3200 (1x 16GB soldered, 1x SO-DIMM slot).
  • Display: 14" FHD (1920x1080) IPS, with PrivacyGuard.
  • Graphics: Integrated AMD Radeon Graphics.
  • Storage: 512GB M.2 2280 PCIe 3.0x4 NVMe SSD.
  • Ports: 2x USB-A 3.2 Gen 1, 2x USB-C 3.2 Gen 2 (support data, PD, DP), HDMI 2.0, RJ-45 Ethernet, microSD reader, headphone jack.

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Score!

Well done landing that one :smiley:

It’ll look great once it’s got a bit more purple going on :enos_flag:

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Damn, you got that for $131 USD? Damn.

As a longtime Thinkpad lover, I am incredibly jealous. Congrats!

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The only thing that bothers me personally about this laptop is the permanently soldered RAM (the 16 GB). As for the price, there’s really nothing to say except: It’s amazing.

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The condition of the laptop seems also very good (in the pictures).

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The online portion of the estate sale was of things that didn’t sell at the actual, in-person estate sale a few week prior. Apparently people didn’t want an “old laptop.” I just got lucky.

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Seven screws removes the bottom plate exposing an empty RAM slot. It can, and WILL, get another 16GB RAM stick added soon. :wink:

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Congrats. I have a Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon 6th gen since a few years and I enjoy it a lot.

One of the best features is, that this laptop is supported by fwupd to do BIOS and firmware updates. This is very convenient. You may want to try if your thinkpad is supported by fwupd too.

fwupdmgr get-devices && fwupdmgr refresh && fwupdmgr get-updates && fwupdmgr update

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That is handy!

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Thanks, @mbod. I’ll do that once I get Linux installed.

In the meantime, while I’m still in Windows, I used the official Lenovo Vantage app and installed BIOS update, battery and touch-pad firmware, among other firmware updates.

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My ThinkPad x220i, which is 16 years old, is still my favorite computer I’ve interacted with :slightly_smiling_face:

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The deed is done.

  • Starting off with CachyOS

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KDE - I understand, but why CachyOS? :thinking:

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Aye, I love that too about my 9th Gen X1 Carbon. And it was needed, as some older versions of the BIOS had issues with sleep modes (though that is one of the downsides: I am struggling with standby not going as deep as it should be thanks to my processor generation). Updating that way is a blast, an all-in-one solution!

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It is really not that old, and in these days and ages the hardware should be enough for several years to come (when not on Windows), keeping in mind how easy a battery switch is with that beauty!

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Cachy has better support for AMD processors, with a repo with specifically compiled stuff. Minor gains over the generically compiled kernels, but still a gain.

I run cachy repos on an Endeavour base, using the cachy-v3 repos on an AMD Ryzen 7 5800H with Radeon Graphics/nVidia RTX3070.

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I’m not familiar with the AMD world at all… Although no, I built the very first computer in my life on AMD. But that was so long ago…

If there are real and meaningful improvements, then I understand.

If improvements are for the sake of improvement, I still don’t understand :thinking:

I have nothing against CachyOS. I just tried it a few times and didn’t find any real superiority over just Arch. From my perspective of using a computer. Hence the misunderstanding.

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I didn’t do any definitive tests, life is too short :rofl:, just the “it feels snappier” feeling really (over the stock Arch kernel).

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Why not? Just givin it a test spin. I havent had CachyOS on bare metal in a long time. My daily driver desktop PC is EOS. I tend to put something different on my laptops, anyway.

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Well, I have nothing against it :wink:

It’s just that when I tried CachyOS, I didn’t see anything that would be interesting to me. So I asked :slightly_smiling_face: