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deathanatosyesterday at 10:57 PM0 repliesview on HN

Even just within the Thinkpad lineup, their website is a mess. Let's even restrict ourselves to just T series Thinkpads.

First, the page looks like it misrenders with garish, inverse-color boxes breaking the apparent margin of the page. Then we get to the models:

  * ThinkPad T14s Gen 6 (14" Snapdragon) Laptop
  * ThinkPad T16g Gen 3 (16" Intel) Laptop
  * ThinkPad T1g Gen 8 (16" Intel) Laptop
  * ThinkPad T14 Gen 6 (14" AMD) Laptop
  * ThinkPad T14s 2-in-1 (14" Intel) Laptop
… that's just the first row. There are 17 items shown. Mostly it's just a poor presentation: there's ~3-4 actual lines, and the rest of what's show is combinatorical complexity of the various ways you can customize them. It's a crapshoot of a presentation.

The builds themselves seem worse now than they have before: they're overall more expensive for what you're getting vs. a few years ago. E.g., the GPU is … gone? They're all iGPUs now. They include a "45%NTSC" screen by default, which is something I've never heard of, and I thought sRGB was the literal bottom of the barrel, but I guess we can go deeper. The warranty is pathetic, but so too is Apple's.

You are right, you can get them without Windows now.