Lenovo is doing a reversal when it comes to the repairability of its ThinkPad T series: The new Lenovo ThinkPad T14 Gen 5 features two SO-DIMMs and a user-replaceable internal battery. To prove its progress in modularity, the Chinese manufacturer had it reviewed by iFixit - the new ThinkPad laptop scored a near perfect 9.3/10.

  • Rooki@lemmy.world
    21·
    9 months ago

    That the picture shows windows 11 and microsoft copilot is just anti advertising, driving more people away from that laptop.

  • Saff@lemmy.ml
    13·
    9 months ago

    Well I look forward to seeing the result. Quite frankly the t14s we have is stupid, the easily replaceable keyboard of the t460 days are long gone, and the WiFi card that has failed 3 times already within my company is glued to the mobo. Anything that lets me do a quick repair myself instead of having to phone a call centre and book a technician will be highly appreciated.

  • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    6·
    9 months ago

    At least there will be a somewhat usable laptop to upgrade to when my T480 falls apart. Too bad they went for a small, internal battery. I really like having a big, hot swapable battery that lasts all day. I don’t see any mention of an SD card slot either.

    • pingveno@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      Because external batteries take up precious space to attach. Internal ones can just sit there with maybe a few screws.

      • Jumuta@sh.itjust.works
        4·
        9 months ago

        yeah, but the t480 isn’t too thick and it had external batteries

        I feel like we’re just making laptops thin for the sake of it which I don’t like

  • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    8 months ago

    T14s still has a bigger battery than the thicc T14

    Why Lenovo why? Please give me the full 100 watt hours in a relatively small laptop again.