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.)

etyhhgfff 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The T480 i7 with 64GB RAM is still a very decent machine in 2026 even when used by a browser tab messy with a bunch of electron apps opened all the time.

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thrtythreeforty 21 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I've got a T480s that has 40GB of RAM (32GB SODIMM + 8GiB soldered). Works fine. Is the T480 different?

	▲	drillsteps5 8 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		T480 has 2 RAM slots and can support 64Gb (32+32). The reason it's "unofficial" is that when they designed it (and wrote PSREF) the 32Gb RAM wasn't a thing.
	▲	kev009 20 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		My T480 running NetBSD: [ 1.000000] total memory = 65411 MB
	▲	nine_k 19 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		T480 has 2 RAM slots and S has soldered RAM and 1 slot. OTOH unofficially T480 (not S) can work with two 32 GB SODIMMs. I did not try that. (I wish the AMD-based thinkpads supported ECC RAM. Ryzen 7 mobile CPUs technically allow for that.)