ThinkPad L14

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

Personally, my favorite 16:9 laptop ever was a Lenovo ThinkPad L14 Gen3 AMD. It was great....5875u, 64gb ram, 2tb SSD, 400-nit low power display, 57wh battery. Could get over 8 hours on battery with a light load and reasonable brightness. Loved that thing.

A used ThinkPad will do right by you. A couple years ago I had a $500 budget for a laptop and I went with a refurbished L14 Gen 3 with 512gb storage / 16gb memory from Lenovo’s refurbished website. You also may be able to find a used MacBook Air M1 for around that price.

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

And Ryzen 5000 counts as 1 "generation". Forgive me for not being so far up Lenovo's ass to know that only the ThinkPad E14 Gen 2 came with the 5500u and not the other Gen 2 thinkpads. Douchebag. Still, he's stuck with 16GB RAM forever, that's a much bigger problem. The iGPU will also require some r

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