alt Hacker NewsIf you are ever bored, maxing out a T440p, T430, or T480 is a fun exercise and not very difficult nor expensive. CPU, RAM, SSD, coreboot, modern LCD panel, Liteon keyboard. Load with Linux, BSD, OpenCore.
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leidenfrost • today at 2:50 AM
I have a hard time finding a good battery.
I bought an internal and external battery and the external one quickly started bloating.
nine_k • today at 2:30 AM
I had al of these. The CPU is the weakest component here, and only T480 supports 32 GB RAM.
(Typing this from a T14 gen 1.)
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> nor expensive
With OpenAI completely destroying the component supply chain in 2026 I think this requires citations