The real ThinkPad T480 successor: New ThinkPad T14 Gen 5 is iFixit approved

[Redaktion]

Lenovo is doing a reversal when it comes to the repairability of its ThinkPad T series: The new Lenovo ThinkPad T14 Gen 5 features two SO-DIMMs and a user-replaceable internal battery. To prove its progress in modularity, the Chinese manufacturer had it reviewed by iFixit - the new ThinkPad laptop scored a near perfect 9.3/10.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/The-real-ThinkPad-T480-successor-New-ThinkPad-T14-Gen-5-is-iFixit-approved.807242.0.html

[holyheck]

cant wait to buy one of these, used, 5 years from now!

[davidm]

That internal pic really took me back to the old days. And I sure remember all the times RAM went bad, in the 80s. It's a good thing we can buy T480s for $200 (and anything we buy today will depreciate to not much more than that by the next year). So seriously, could I get an SoC with on-die RAM and decent 2020s memory speeds so we can move on from just doing things slightly faster and almost decent battery life compared to the last X generations?

[AlexZ]

While it's great that they give us two memory slots, the tiny cooling fans means the performance of this Thinkpad is going to suck donkey balls.  I have the same size cooling fan in my X1 Nano for god's sake.

[lmao]

time to adopt a new term 'expandability signalling'.
they give you all those slots but cpu is s*** and will be outdated in 3-5 years, leaving you with 'basic productivity only' way before anything will break and you will be able to use those slots.
they could use all that space for battery.

[aindriu]

what a great job they did with the T14, definitely will be picking one of them up sometime in the future

[Keanu]

From iFixit's Repairability Snapshot:

Minor factors: "The wireless module is soldered to the motherboard."

I wouldn't consider that to be a minor factor?

[LoneWolf]

A drop-down Ethernet port? Ugh.

I know Ethernet is used a lot less these days, but those never unplug well, and break way too easily. All to get a couple of mm thinner. Being a tech, I need ports like that, and I need them to last.

I have the top-flite T480 with all of the options, the much better keyboard (compared to the new models), and I put a 400-nit full-gamut LCD in it and an AX210 WiFi card. I'll keep it and pass on this. Too bad; the 1920 x 1200 display is the only thing I'd want in my T480 (were it only possible).

[NikoB]

I know Ethernet is used a lot less these days

In any organization that really thinks about security, you will never be able to connect to the corporate network via wlan, because... it breaks at once, in any version.

The lack of fast and stable 5Gbps via RJ45 today is a death sentence for any corporate laptop. Immediately the entire series under the bulldozer. Like this garbage one from Lenovo.