ThinkPad L14

This system, ThinkPad L14 Gen 5 (Intel), is a fine computer. It's relatively new, I see few of these on the used market in the US so far. 16gb of ram and 256gb of SSD are fine starting places and they're also modular/replaceable on this model. The price seems basically fair.

I am going to China for a few months and just built a pretty decent rig out of a thinkpad L14 gen 4. My home laptop is a lenovo yoga i9 as my main studio computer. It's too heavy and I dont want to loose or damage it, so I went with this lightweight thinkpad. I will say, the think pad will struggle

US? Dell Latitude 5440 (TBH 5450 would probably still fit in your budget) - sodimm sockets, full m.2 slot for wifi, m.2 slot for wlan, $250 for a 5440 with 16gb/256gb on US eBay, which is a couple generations newer than what you'll typically get in a ThinkPad. https://www.ebay.com/itm/366289482877 a

The T14 offers a more rugged build, a brighter, better stock display, and Thunderbolt support permitting the connection of an external GPU. The L14 G4 trades a weaker dimmer display, and cheaper build, for a more powerful chipset with much stronger graphics, dual open RAM slots (up to 64GB), and a t

Even with RAM and storage, $510 is expensive for a T14 G1, both T14, and L14 G1 are 6 years old. If the T14 still appealed, I'd want to know the age and health of the 1TB NVMe, as it could also be 6 years old, and heavily worn. Avoid if either has a 1366x768 TN display. I'd favor spending less on an

Excellent price. Faster and more powerful than any T480 set up, and you retain modular dual RAM slots, and a replaceable WiFi card. If 8GB RAM is installed, adding an 8GB, or better, 16GB DDR4-3200 stick is a worthwhile upgrade, especially with Windows 11. Hopefully it's fitted with at least a 250 n

I can't speak to the whole history of the L series necessarily but the R series used to be almost exactly that. Right down to, lots of T/R models literally shared part numbers for their motherboards, and the differences were in what configurations you could get. With Lenovo really shifting the T ser

Perfect. I think a normal ThinkPad/Latitude/EliteBook will be perfect for your use case. I personally use Latitudes and also support people using them professionally, in higher education, and IME they wear well and are durable. ThinkPads aren't bad, but they're the subject of influencer content and

kinda feel you on the ram worry. for mechanical engineering and 5 years i’d push for 32gb if possible. under 1000 look at the Lenovo ThinkPad E16 Gen 2 with ryzen 7 and upgradeable ram. also the Acer Swift Edge 16 sometimes drops to 950 with 32gb soldered. most companies do provide a work laptop so

The sale is basically pot luck. With that chipset they could be supplying a T480, T490, or an L390. It's not a bad price, depending on what you got, but that's the unknown. I had a look on eBay UK and if £200 is your limit, I found a private sale for an E14 G2 AMD Ryzen 5 16GB (8GB + 8GB), 256GB, 10