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are lenovos still any good? I've heard a lot of people say that the quality has gone down dramatically

I use a p50 series thinkpad for work and it's quite good. The keyboard layout isn't my favorite, but otherwise I'm a fan.

I bought a P51 off Ebay for ~$830 over the summer. It is really well built, and I definitely got a better laptop used than I could have new for the same money.

Great laptop for my needs, 64 GB RAM, came with M2 SSD and took for 2 more drives, and has dedicated graphics card. No complaints.

I found myself hankering after a P-series Thinkpad, after watching Louis Rossmann, near enough destroying one of them!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig3xI8dUdm0

P50 series was horrible on Linux with the dual graphics setup (the intel + nVidia combo). Just a nightmare for more than 1 external monitor and a docking station setup.

Correction: you didn't know how to set it up.

The hardware works just fine.

> Correction: you didn't know how to set it up.

Thanks for your opinion.

> The hardware works just fine.

The post was based on multiple people within my company, not just me. I would not recommend the old P50 on Linux.

I recently bought a Lenovo Thinkpad Yoga L13.

Not particularly pleased with it. Gets really hot (i7 chip) and quite noisy, touchpad glitches out and gets 'sticky' randomly, battery seems to often go to a 'plugged in but not charging state' and the battery life is pretty dire.

Machine itself feels nice though and the performance is good.

I think my next purchase will be an ARM Macbook if I dare to cough up the dough.

Using a thinkpad p1 gen 2: never achieved to get more than 2 hours out of of battery. Keyboard also sucks.

lenovo as a brand defaults to garbage. they do this thing where product XZ5400i is excellent but XZ5400j is garbage.

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