Thinkpad options

[Elwyn]

Hello everyone, I'm looking for advices about what thinkpad model to buy.

My uses are for programming mainly, as I rarely play it doesn't even need to come with Windows as I use Linux for almost everything.

I just need 3 things: Durability, performance and good battery life. It's a plus if it's light as I'll bring it up and down with me to work and college.

Based on the 3 requirements, I thought about buying a Macbook and it already comes with a *nix based O.S, but sadly it's too expensive for me (I'm from Brazil, so the Macbook is USD 3k or more)

 

Thanks for the attention

[fjdhdhcyfhf]

dell also ships ubuntu so you know you won't have driver issues. Another one that ships ubuntu is system76

[Dackzy]

well the L460 and L450 is a pretty good entry level business laptop. You get the ThinkPad keyboard, that is known for being among the best if not the best and it is well build.

[uzarnom]

Be sure to do some research before you buy,
I've heard a lot of people complain about Lenovo locking down their system stopping people from duel booting.
If you run a VM you'll be fine (and the new windows subsystem for linux will make things nice too)

[Gung Pow Chicken]

I wouldn't buy any other series other than T and X. In my opinion these are the best laptops made my Lenovo. Sometimes I like the W series but not often, I've still got a T420, T540, X230, W550, and a T60.

1 hour ago, uzarnom said:

Be sure to do some research before you buy,
I've heard a lot of people complain about Lenovo locking down their system stopping people from duel booting.
If you run a VM you'll be fine (and the new windows subsystem for linux will make things nice too)

Your completely wrong about them locking down their systems. I've never had a single problem with due booting any of my Thinkpads.

[Dackzy]

6 minutes ago, Icuw1pc said:

I wouldn't buy any other series other than T and X. In my opinion these are the best laptops made my Lenovo. Sometimes I like the W series but not often, I've still got a T420, T540, X230, W550, and a T60.

That is also the highest end line ups.  

ofc if he got the budget then go for a T460s, damn that is a nice laptop, one of the only ones that can get me away from my T420s

[Gung Pow Chicken]

18 minutes ago, Dackzy said:

That is also the highest end line ups.  

ofc if he got the budget then go for a T460s, damn that is a nice laptop, one of the only ones that can get me away from my T420s

It definitely is a nice laptop, and I love the size, they aren't too small and they aren't huge either. I probably won't ever move away form my T420, whenever I do Server work or Network maintenance it's my go to machine. I've got a stack of them at home for parts too, so I'll never have to worry about that.

[Dackzy]

8 minutes ago, Icuw1pc said:

It definitely is a nice laptop, and I love the size, they aren't too small and they aren't huge either. I probably won't ever move away form my T420, whenever I do Server work or Network maintenance it's my go to machine. I've got a stack of them at home for parts too, so I'll never have to worry about that.

I have the T420s with the quadro and I love it, I carry it around in the screen sometimes and put it down a bit hard and nothing has happened yet. I use my T420s for school work, where I do a bit of 3D work and notes. The thing is that I kinda soon need a bit more power ... 

I love it so much. 14inch is also the perfect size IMO, not too small, but also not too big, it is a very handy size.

[Gung Pow Chicken]

5 minutes ago, Dackzy said:

I have the T420s with the quadro and I love it, I carry it around in the screen sometimes and put it down a bit hard and nothing has happened yet. I use my T420s for school work, where I do a bit of 3D work and notes. The thing is that I kinda soon need a bit more power ... 

I love it so much. 14inch is also the perfect size IMO, not too small, but also not too big, it is a very handy size.

 

I installed Debian on mine and regained a lot of power, I use wine to run my windows specific applications. I've dropped mine, even spilt coffee on it and it still works fine, my parts were just a bulk order of broken ones from ebay lol.

 

Have you ever looked into the W series? For that kind of usage they would work perfect.

[Dackzy]

1 minute ago, Icuw1pc said:

 

I installed Debian on mine and regained a lot of power, I use wine to run my windows specific applications. I've dropped mine, even spilt coffee on it and it still works fine, my parts were just a bulk order of broken ones from ebay lol.

I need windows... Kek I have droped mine from 8m height, because some dude pushed a bit to me, just opened it up and kept working on the project.

 

2 minutes ago, Icuw1pc said:

Have you ever looked into the W series? For that kind of usage they would work perfect.

Yeah I have looked at them, but they are super expensive used here in Denmark and I am not going to drop 2000€ for a new P series

[uzarnom]

18 hours ago, Icuw1pc said:

I wouldn't buy any other series other than T and X. In my opinion these are the best laptops made my Lenovo. Sometimes I like the W series but not often, I've still got a T420, T540, X230, W550, and a T60.

Your completely wrong about them locking down their systems. I've never had a single problem with due booting any of my Thinkpads.

Well as long as you've had good experience ,
Do you know if the yoga series is easy to dual boot?

Also (back to laptops)
I'm not sure how reliable laptops are now, but enterprise devices are (at least in my opinion) very reliable.
I've had a normal consumer, toshiba, lenovo, dell they are okay just felt slow (spoilt by desktops i think)
The lenovo X220 is nice (used by the school i work for), currently using though Latitude E6220.
Whats great about these laptops, they just seem to work.
Using a mechanical hard drive they performed better then my high end laptop (also if you can find a good price on gumtree or something) picked it up for $200