ThinkPad E14 Gen 5

P.S. I am tech savvy, really like to tinker around with upgrades and what not, that’s why I’m pondering on the 14s since it has limited upgradability. Despite that, you do get a taller 16:10 display, decently robust chassis (lower half is all magnesium, instead of PPS/CFK), the most powerful iGPU he

ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 OLED New, that is about an $1,800 laptop. Paying a lot of money for a GPU that you'll never use outside of a weekend of smashing passwords. You want a ThinkPad. https://www.lenovo.com/us/outletus/en/p/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpade/lenovo-thinkpad-e14-gen-6-14-inch-amd/21m3x009us T

I helped my dad set up a ThinkPad E14 Gen 6 (Intel) last year and it seems like a great system. These are internally flexible so if you need to upgrade ram later you'll be able to. (a year ago my advice would have been to buy the ram you think you'll need in 5 years. Looks like the Gen6 and Gen7 bot

From Gen 5 forward, you get - 16:10 display, and noticeably improved build quality. AMD models are particularly powerful, but even G5 uses Intel 13th Gen chipsets, with capable Iris Xe Graphics when run with dual channel RAM. G5 8GB + 1 open RAM slot (40GB max), G6/G7 2 open RAM slots (64GB max). Al

T14s all-metal build, thin and light, fixed DDR4x-4266 16GB RAM, single NVMe drive, decent Intel chipset, but outmatched by equivalent AMD. 2 years older than L14 G4. L14, plastic/metal build, DDR4-3200 RAM will upgrade to 64GB, more powerful AMD chipset, stronger graphics than Intel 11th Gen, suppo

All E14 Gen7 have two SSD slots. Memory is upgradeable or not depending on CPU architecture, E14/16 is the only decently-priced Thinkpad offering two storage slots. All other models offering this feature are high-priced workstation-grade ones. Go for a model with the Intel Lunar Lake CPUs (258V for

Is this your school's basic requirement or are you in a program with specialized requirements e.g. engineering? Generally speaking in higher ed your first year or two you can get by with literally anything. The only thing you will be doing on your personal computer is email, MS Office, and accessing

Oh the glass screen was the one thing that broke on one of my Surfaces too. I had this shoulder bag and a Surface 3 and TBH I'm extremely clumsy and would drop the bag and the screen eventually shattered. The machine still worked but I had to go in and turn off the touch sensor and I have no recolle

Are you lookng for new or used? What types of use cases?What kind of budget? And, where? New: E series is fine. I heled my dad buy one last year and it's one of the nicer laptops I've used. Just due to the general trajectory of the computer industry low end business laptops is not that big of a deal

$900 is brand new ThinkPad territory. Grab an E14 or L14 brand new off of Lenovo's website and it should easily last you for several years. These two in particular tend to prioritize internal flexibility. CPU upgrades stopped being possible laptops long ago, and stopped being worthwhile even longer