ThinkPad T14s Gen 6

Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Gen 6 with Snapdragon has the craziest battery life of all ThinkPads. Over 20 hours.

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CRD stands for Compute Reference Device. It's the vibrant red laptops Qualcomm uses at events, they are internal development machines yeah. It's my guess that the CRDs might run Linux better than any consumer laptop because if you look at the patches Qualcomm posts they nearly always mention the CRD

Debian 13 works great if you are willing to take some manual steps to intstall it. I followed a workflow similar to: Boot into Ubuntu Concept for Snapdragon. manually partition your disk. Install base Debian using debootstrap: https://wiki.debian.org/Debootstrap reboot & configure wifi with nmcl set

Go for the Snapdragon. I've got the T14s Gen 6 model and battery life is phenomenal even with the electron-guzzling 2.8k OLED screen. 15 hours is doable on my config whereas the IPS LCD model gets over 20 hours on most battery benchmarks. Performance is close to MacBook Pro M3 levels. If you want Ma

It works on my T14s Snapdragon, LOL. I get something like 3% battery drain overnight in sleep mode. On AMD and Intel, YMMV. https://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-empire-strikes-back-with-21-hrs-of-battery-life-Lenovo-ThinkPad-T14s-Gen-6-laptop-review.1008078.0.html This is the only review out there th

T480 with internal graphics and 'low power' FHD screen. Those were the last mainstream models to have removal batteries, and you could get them with 96Wh in total (24 Wh internal+72Wh removable) . Getting one of these for $200-250 plus plan on having to replace the battery - OEM , that's expensive.

I gotta say, Lenovo's pricing is BS most of the time because there are crazy deals to be had all the time. I got a top spec 64 GB OLED T14s Snapdragon for a little over $1500. Talk to your Lenovo account manager to get these discounts. Even with OLED, I'm getting close to MacBook Air battery life, s

The first review is out: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-empire-strikes-back-with-21-hrs-of-battery-life-Lenovo-ThinkPad-T14s-Gen-6-laptop-review.1008078.0.html Heat dissipation and fan noise seem better than the AMD/Snapdragon models.

Maybe a T14s if you want very light weight, good performance and crazy long battery life. I've got a T14s Snapdragon X with 64 GB RAM, it handles Linux under WSL fine and it's good for the little bit of hobbyist C# that I do. If your .Net stuff can run cross-platform on x86 and ARM, try looking at a