I would say the T14s gen 4 is a better investment if you're on a budget. It can be had for almost half the price of the Gen 6.
I ran some benchmarks to check the performance and the CPU wattage. In Cinebnech R23 10 mins run I got 10935. Temp at the end of the 10 mins run was 73. So I suspected it wasn't pushing as hard as it could then I found a "smart cooling" setting in the bios. After disabling that I got around 1200. Could still be better because the CPU temp was the same in the end.
CPU package power as reported by hwinfo64, settles at 22w after around 4 minutes. Before that it stays between 26-28 watt with CPU temp in the mid 80's. Then it settles at 22 watt (with CPU temp at 73 degrees). So it seems to be that the cooling system is capable of running this at at least 25w sustained. I'm hoping a bios update down the line will take advantage of the thermal headroom.
I'm liking it very much so far, so I'm afraid not.
Couldn't find a 4 digit number on the back. But the part number on Lenovo's website is 21M1001WUS. No, it doesn't have a swappable battery. As far as I know, there hasn't been any model with a swappable battery for many years now.
Hell yeah, brother. Not at good as the 890m but it actually seems to be very close. Judging by some benchmarks I've seen on Youtube, it's only around 5% slower than the 890m, at least at this wattage.
CPU is AMD Ryzen AI 7 PRO 360. It's too early to form an opinion about battery life, but so far it seems promising. As we speak the battery life is 67% and it shows 7 hours remaining. This is on Linux mind you, and I'm not doing anything heavy. Will report back tomorrow.
1980x1200. Yes it's 16:10. It's 60hz only if you're wondering. I like the screen. Colors are vibrant and blacks are deep.
No, not without opening up the laptop.
Yes. Will be running Fedora Silverblue 41.
Fedora Silverblue 41.
Just got it today so I haven't had much time to play with it yet. But feel free to ask me anything about it and I'll answer when I can. The model I got has the non-touch 100% sRGB 400 nits display.
I did consider Framework, but I decided to go with ThinkPad for the trackpoint, keyboard, and build quality.
This isn't my first AMD laptop. I prefer AMD for the iGPU. Although Intel is now catching up in that aspect. So for current gen CPUs I don't really have a strong preference. If the T14s gen 6 was available with Intel CPU I would've gone with that for the slightly better iGPU.