ThinkPad X220

Nice on the purchase! The biggest increase the battery life will come from a new battery. I'm willing to bet the battery you currently have with it is quite old and doesn't even have 70% health left. The operating system won't matter too much for battery life. Unless you are leaving it idle for long

I got off on an Apple rant there, and forgot to say that as someone who came primarily from the Apple laptop ecosystem, I find ThinkPads the only satisfying PC laptop experience. The quality is similar to Apple, they have fabulous keyboards, and Lenovo isn't trying to copy Apple's design aesthetics

Just as a general statement I'd say don't go any older than a Sandy Bridge Intel 2nd Gen CPU. That leaves you starting with an X220/T420/W520 and upward from there. They run Linux beautifully. I have Linux Mint on my T420 secondary to Windows 11. Most batteries are likely to be close to dead but you

Yes, they had real issues with power when they were trying to charge the battery and work at the some time. Throttling like crazy. This got successively better with BIOS updates, and the later ULV i5s (2537M) that I got were OK in that regard. No wonder, with 17W TDP instead of the 35 W TDP of the s

I currently have 24.04.2 installed on a Lenovo x220 Thinkpad as a secondary, and 25.04 on my main rig. 24.04.2 is solid (as an LTS should be), but it's missing the nice new improvements on GNOME 48. On the flipside, there are far fewer "not supported" comments on available extensions in Extension Ma

It may not be enough. What I'd usually recommend nowadays is to get a USB-PD to square Lenovo adapter, and a square to IBM adapter. Hooking both up has (somehow) allowed my X220 to sense whether a 45W, a 65W or a 90W adapter is connected. If I used the 45W mode on my USB-C charger, it charged the ba

YES it is get steam and then get TF2 i can run it on a lenovo x220 that has been dropped 6 feet onto a concrete floor at like 10-15 fps

Oh man, it's been years since I've saw the Thinkpad X100e laptop. We used to use them in elementary, and boy were they incredibly slow to use with that single core AMD processor. If Lenovo were to bring back these laptops in the same style, they should at the minimum sport a Quad core processor. I t