If you are ever bored, maxing out a T440p, T430, or T480 is a fun exercise and not very difficult nor expensive. CPU, RAM, SSD, coreboot, modern LCD panel, Liteon keyboard. Load with Linux, BSD, OpenCore.

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leidenfrost an hour ago | parent | next [-]

I have a hard time finding a good battery.

I bought an internal and external battery and the external one quickly started bloating.

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nine_k 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I had al of these. The CPU is the weakest component here, and only T480 supports 32 GB RAM.

(Typing this from a T14 gen 1.)

	▲	thrtythreeforty 22 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I've got a T480s that has 40GB of RAM (32GB SODIMM + 8GiB soldered). Works fine. Is the T480 different?

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stuxnet79 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> nor expensive

With OpenAI completely destroying the component supply chain in 2026 I think this requires citations

	▲	nine_k 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		DDR3 was not so much affected as DDR4 or DDR5.