ThinkPad T480

It was a insanely great machine when it first came out. It's still serviceable. But it is very old for 2026. The prices people sell them for online are competing with much newer ThinkPads that have better processors (the one part you can't swap on the T480. So unless you find one for around 100$, it

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

what is the reason this machine can't ? Also dont forget the t480 has to include 2 ram slots on its motherboard. Here's why: T14: https://sm.pcmag.com/t/pcmag_au/news/b/built-to-f/built-to-fix-not-to-toss-i-looked-inside-lenovos-2026-thinkp_fedc.3840.jpgT480: https://guide-images.cdn.ifixit.com/igi/Dp

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

The advantage of the T480 vs the 14 inch models coming after it is the external battery and the two SODIMM slots. Two SODIMM slots will make a brief re-appearance in the T14 Gen 5 / P14s Gen 5, some T14 Gen 6 has them as well and that's it (but of course the LPCAMM2 slot in the Gen 7 is far superior

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)

Dell Latitude 5000 series. 5420 is as old as I'd go really, 5440s are just 3 years old, you can get them on ebay in decent/working shape for $250 and they should happily get 8+h of battery. These complain if you give them any fewer than 60w of power but they will in fact happily run on 30w so you ca

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