ThinkPad T430

I've had about 10 of these TN screens between the T420 and T430 laptops I've had/used/sold. I'm sure most responses will say how awful all these TN screens are and they are more or less correct. In my experience there are God awful ones (best described as someone having sprinkled curry powder over i

Should have been here 5 years ago when they last could be upgraded to keep up with ultrabooks of the time. Today, they just feel like cheap options for people that sometimes spend more than they're worth upgrading them They were cheap and fast 5-10 years ago when upgraded as CPU performance stagnate

If your T430 has a quad-core CPU, 16GB of RAM, and an SSD I don't see why it wouldn't run Rufus'd Windows 11 well enough. The biggest downside to Rufus'd 11 is that you'll need to install newer versions externally rather than in-band. I believe you should be able to do an inplace upgrade form a USB-

I'm not sure as software isn't my forte but it seems like Lenovo might have simply skimped on the T530 by not giving it a USB lane which is present in a T430 for its WiFi slot. Memory is a bit fuzzy but when I previously tested my T530 in the past it didn't work either for USB. They've made weird de