ThinkPad

every time i see a thinkpad i'm reminded of my first IT job cannibalizing hard drives, keyboard, screens, touchpads, and pointers from other broken thinkpads to save money and make the department's budget balance a little bit better while the company raked in billions of dollars every quarter.

i mean to sound nostalgic more than bitter because it was FANTASTIC company to work for at the time and things like the smell of a brand new thinkpad out of its plastic or the sounds of keyboard snapping into place and the black & red aesthetic always takes me back like some old man remembering better days. lol

Under Linux (Kernel 6.11.8), everything works flawlessly out of the box. The only issue I noticed is that the fan runs constantly. The CPU temp could be as low as 36 degrees and the fan would still be running at 2400 RPM. It's not loud or anything though. Not sure if this is related to the Platform Profile in the kernel, or it's a bios issue. Either way, I hope it gets fixed eventually.

I ran some benchmarks to check the performance and the CPU wattage. In Cinebnech R23 10 mins run I got 10935. Temp at the end of the 10 mins run was 73. So I suspected it wasn't pushing as hard as it could then I found a "smart cooling" setting in the bios. After disabling that I got around 1200. Could still be better because the CPU temp was the same in the end.

CPU package power as reported by hwinfo64, settles at 22w after around 4 minutes. Before that it stays between 26-28 watt with CPU temp in the mid 80's. Then it settles at 22 watt (with CPU temp at 73 degrees). So it seems to be that the cooling system is capable of running this at at least 25w sustained. I'm hoping a bios update down the line will take advantage of the thermal headroom.

How much do you love the new CoPilot™ key?

can i have it?

New thinkpad sounds like an oxymoron

What CPU and what's the battery life? (that might take a bit)

Also what's your opinion on the notch?

What OS do you plan to run?

Can you remove the keyboard like you used to?

Drools at 880M

What is the model number? It should be a 4 digit number on the sticker on the back. That will help me look up the specs. Does it have a swappabe battery like old thinkpads? I'm not sure if they have gone completely to internal ones. Thanks.

Did you consider any other laptops like the Framework? How long are you hoping for this to last?

I'm considering getting a less beastly computer and am strongly considering AMD for the first time. Is this your first AMD?

Are you a child of divorce?

What is the screen resolution? Particularly wondering if it is 16:10 proportions like some new thinkpads.

Can you upgrade anything in it? Also is build quality good or is it floppy and bendy?

What's the thermal situation like? I recently bought a P14s (I can post a review if anyone's interested) and decided to go with intel seeing as Meteor Lake seems oddly more efficient than Zen 4 when it comes to laptops.

Will you run Linux on it?