ThinkPad T480

As a student, you might as well come back to MacBook - brand-new Neo is 850 CAD with education discount, or you should be able to find older M chip Air models under 1000 CAD second hand. You get Microsoft Office IIRC, good battery life, good bright screen (some ThinkPads model configs still somewhat

The idea that the t480 is the "last great ThinkPad" is bonkers The t490 was just as well built but thinner, the downside was only 1 sodimm slot and only the (much bigger) internal battery. They kept using pretty much the same parts between the t490, t14, and t14 Gen 2. If you really want both sodimm

I think it's down to influencer video content. There's loads of people out there claiming the T480 is legendarily good and even explicitly that it's outright better than successors. Almost all of the T480's actual benefits as a computer exist solely in 2017 and in people's memories. The batteries wi

Hi this is my two cents no one asked for. If you end up going for a ThinkPad and you can spend up to $800 DON'T get a t480, the point of a t480 is that it's cheap and repairable so you can get it for even cheaper with some things missing/broken and fix it for pennies, if you have the money and want

What sucks about the X series is no upgradability. And if there is these 12.5 inch ones, arent even available in my country (and ThinkPads are stupidly priced here, glad i got my T480 at a cheap value)

You asking for something that is very hard to find. “I need the laptop to run smoothly for around 5 years” Budget 250 USD Looking at 7 year old ThinkPads .. I am not trying to be mean but this is almost impossible. I have a w520 that is 15 years old and it works , but I wouldn’t really want to rely

Its popularity has made the T480 one of the most overpriced used ThinkPad models. An 8 year old laptop with a basic, by current standards, 4 core Intel 8th Gen, with weak UHD graphics, and here with a very poor and dim 1366x768 display. If $209 is the price, no. T480, at the right price, is a nice L

The T480 is a significant downgrade in almost everything. Worse display, worse CPU, significantly worse battery, worse trackpad, worse speakers. Keyboard, build quality and operating system are all personal preferences, and the only advantages are more ports and having upgradeable RAM and storage. A

Most cost effective, gaming capable, upgrade-able ThinkPad, L14 G2 AMD Ryzen 5 or 7. Far more powerful chipsets than T480, especially graphics, faster RAM, dual RAM slots (up to 64GB total). Avoid any with 1366x768 TN displays, buy 1920x1080 IPS displays only. T480 (2018) 3yrs older than L14 G2 (202

Typically your first couple years in higher ed are fairly easy computationally, and further there's almost always remote resources available. The main reason a T480 isn't recommendable today isn't that it's too slow, I get by with 8th gen just fine, it's that T480 costs 2-4x what a similarly equippe