The ThinkPad T14 series is among the most well known and liked business laptop series. It is not a premium series, but it delivers a well-rounded combination of quality and features. With the lastest Intel Lunar Lake CPU, it is more efficient than ever, setting a new battery life record for the T14 series.

A comparison of Lenovo Thinkpad t14 over the years and how the new lunar lake cpu stacks up.

      • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        103·
        7 days ago

        Not when it comes with the huge downside of non upgradeable RAM. I will carry around a huge power bank before I buy a laptop with soldered RAM.

        • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
          4·
          6 days ago

          I will carry around a huge power bank before I buy a laptop with soldered RAM.

          I carry a ~300 Wh power bank with my laptop.

          https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D62PMB3R

          They also have a less-elaborate, smaller, lighter, less-expensive ~200 Wh model that’s probably more actually-practical:

          https://www.amazon.com/Anker-Portable-Generator-Traveling-Emergencies/dp/B0D62P85ZR

          Note that you can’t take anything over 100 Wh on a flight in the US. I also have a 100 Wh power bank that I keep around for flights.

          • justsomeguy@lemmy.worldEnglish
            111·
            7 days ago

            I don’t see many users upgrading the memory on a laptop like this either but would criticize soldered RAM based on the aspect of repairability. T14s are often used in business which means hundreds of machines handled by IT departments. Boards will die and technicians will throw them out including the RAM. Now granted most companies don’t bother with hardware repairs anyway but somewhere down the chain someone will have these machines on their workbench and the easier it is to fix them up the better.

    • Eager Eagle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      6 days ago

      Lunar lake is x86-64 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Lake

      Intel said that with Lunar Lake, it aimed to “bust the myth that [x86] can’t be as efficient” as ARM.[3] Analysis of tests performed on Lunar Lake CPUs available at market launch indicated that, although their multi-core performance was not particularly good under full load, their efficiency under everyday use was good, even if the ARM competition still has its advantages.[4]

      • mehdi_benadel@lemmy.balamb.frEnglish
        1·
        5 days ago

        That was a joke 😂 I’m not seriously thinking they put ARM instructions in a x86 processor, though they might’ve tried to replicate the optimisations that led to less power usage in those RISC processors (I still can’t get why RISC CPUs are more power efficient honestly, it seems counter intuitive, now again it might just be because of overengineering).