Don't buy anything OTHER THAN IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad T, X, and W/P Series (especially X230, T440p and T480, those are the best pads for bucks) if you want the Real Business Experience™
>Other business laptops are welcome in /tpg/ (Dell Latitude/Precision, HP EliteBook/ZBook)

Why ThinkPad?
>Used machines are plentiful and cheap
>Excellent keyboards, tactile feel and quiet
>Great durability: magnesium roll cage for structural integrity, with high quality plastic body panels
>Utilitarian design: e.g. indicator LEDs, 7 row keyboard layout on older models
>Docking stations that easily turns your laptop into a desktop
>Easy to repair (most models), upgrade & maintain thanks to readily available service manuals for every model, spare parts easy & cheap to obtain
>Excellent Linux & *BSD support
>Trackpoint (why the fuck wasn't this in the general before? that's the only reason to get a thinkpad in 2025 honestly)

ThinkWiki - General info about ThinkPads/specs
https://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkWiki

Model generations:
>Classic IBM: T40, T41, T42
>IBM/Lenovo Transition: T43, T60, T61 (T42 - T43: significant difference in specs)
>"Classic" Lenovo: T400, T410, T420 (T61 - T400: 4:3 to 16:10)
>Transition to old modern: T430, T440, T450 (T420 - T430: membrane to chiclet)
>Old modern: T460, T470, T480 (T450 - T460: significantly less thick)
>New modern: T490, T14g1, T14g2 (T480 - T490: design change)
>New new modern: T14g3, T14g4, ... (T14g2 - T14g3: second design change)

BIOS replacement:
https://coreboot.org/downloads.html
https://libreboot.org/docs/install/
https://canoeboot.org/docs/install/

Additional resources:
https://dankpads.com/tpg/
https://biosimage.booru.org
https://1vyra.in

Patches:
https://github.com/digmorepaka/thinkpad-firmware-patches
https://github.com/hamishcoleman/thinkpad-ec

Chat:
##ibmthinkpad on libera
#/tpg/ on rizon

I just got a E14 G6 from my job after using an X220/T420 for over a decade and oh boy I know I'm late to the party but what were they thinking getting rid of the 7-row keyboard? I guess I just have to get used to it but the muscle memory of using the page back/forward keys which are now pgup/pgdn is going to take some getting used to. I keep trying to use pgdn and pressing the Delete key instead. At least they've seperated the function keys since the T430 I basically haven't paid attention to ThinkPads at all after the T420.

>>105974135 (OP)
I got a second hand ThinkPad T14s Gen 1 AMD version for $290, pretty happy with my purchase.
It was kinda disappointing when i realized that the 16GB RAM was soldered, but I'm glad i installed Fedora on it, runs pretty smooth.

anal sex

>>105974231
>ThinkPad T14s Gen 1 AMD version for $290
Could get a much better deal depends on your location.
But yeah, frankly 16GB is good enough for a laptop even if you're running gnome with all of its extensions IMO.

I hardly use more than 7GB on my X13

>>105974202
And now after all this time they've also decided on the next gen of ThinkPads to swap the Ctrl and Fn key around. I guess I missed that change by 1 generation.

A GPU like the 2080 in the t15g line should be enough for modern games and video editing right? Perhaps some development too?

>>105974273

>>105974309
At least you can swap them back by hand. Same size.

>>105974276
Yeah, i wish i could get it for less, I live in the third world, so having such price is almost impossible.

GYAAAT

does the t14 come with a screen that isnt complete ass? like >1080p >500nits brightness