E14 gen 7 2026
Ryzen 7 250
2x8GB DDR5 5600mhz (I plan 2x16gb)
NVME 512GB 2242 (I plan to install the secondary 1TB)
I haven't used it much yet, I'm migrating some things from my other Lenovo to this one, but I'm already very excited, the build quality is incredible to me.
Hi everyone,
I'm writing this out of deep frustration.
Over the past year, my ThinkPad E14 Gen 5 has suffered the exact same hinge failure three times:
If this were merely a cosmetic issue, I wouldn't mind it as much. Sure, Lenovo should make things right, but it wouldn't have an actual impact on the laptop usage experience. However, this is an internal mechanical issue. The hinge wobbles more than it should, it often gets locked up, and the torsional stress is causing the plastic to crack.
Despite the laptop being travelled in a padded sleeve and the chassis corners being immaculate with not a scratch or a ding, Lenovo Support (case 2030866487) has denied coverage.
They have classified it as "Customer Induced Damage" (CID) to avoid taking responsibility, despite it being a recurring issue. The only solution they offered was a paid repair.
Has anyone had this same experience with this ThinkPad model? I understand the E14 is on the lower end of the ThinkPad series, but I still find this type of fault unacceptable.
As a techie, I was eager to buy my first ThinkPad. To be honest, I'm loving the rest of it and I even recommended ThinkPads to friends and colleagues, but this experience will surely make me think twice about Lenovo when the time comes to upgrade my laptop. It may be time to make the move to Dell or Framework...
Please let me know if you have any suggestions on how I should proceed. I'd really appreciate it.
Thanks.
Why do i use 3 of these things?
Bought my first ThinkPad t14s gen 3 amd. It was used by a trader, so condition is super clean. Grabbed the deal 22000 INR ~ 230 USD 16GB Ram 256GB SSD , 87% Battery Health.
So first thing i cleaned the window using Chris titus tools and shut up 10, install latest drivers and bios using vantage software, restricted battery charging.
Any suggestions to make the experience better is welcome. I primarily gonna use this for coding and web development.
I'm the owner of a growing law firm in Australia (currently around 10 staff, likely 15+ over the next few years) and am considering standardising on ThinkPads.
My priorities are:
- Reliability
- Ease of fleet management
- Fast support when something goes wrong
- Minimal downtime for lawyers
I'm currently looking at the T14 and X1 Carbon range with Premier Support.
For those of you running ThinkPads in a business environment:
- How has Premier Support been in practice?
- If a laptop suffers a hardware failure, what has the repair experience actually been like?
- Has anyone received a replacement machine rather than a repair?
- How long are your laptops typically lasting before replacement?
- Would you buy ThinkPads again for a professional services firm?
I'm also curious about best practice. Do you rely on Lenovo support, or do you keep a spare pre-configured ThinkPad on hand so staff can swap immediately if a machine fails?
Located in Australia, so Australian support experiences would be particularly helpful.
I just bought my first ThinkPad (X250), and noticed that the FN (Function) key is always lid. It still works as intended when pressed, just wondered if it’s normal for the light to be on at all times.
Hi all
So my X1 Yoga Gen 4 just died and I need a replacement. My use case is office and browsing, (but am open tab hungry, typically 30-50 open) ) and would like to keep the cost to between 200-300 euro.
What i liked about the yoga: weight, screen brightness but only used the touch screen for occasional zooming-in, and don't need the tent mode, so a non yoga is welcomed fine as long as the screen is close to what the yoga had, but would like better battery performance, maybe todays 6 hrs or so.
I think I've narrowed it down to the T14/T14s/P14s/X1 carbon/X1 yoga with 16Gb, and after reading many reports here, I'm struggling to judge the price to value tradeoff on which gen to choose and how much to pay for it, especially given how prices seem to have risen for used laptops.
Suggestions welcome,Thanks
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My daily driver E14 Ryzen 7 5700u 24gb of ram 2tb storage running fedora. I know it’s the “cheap” Thinkpad but for the $50 I paid for it idc. I like it more than my t14gen1. Only complaint is battery life.
i currently have a microsoft surface studio 1, decent laptop but i wanna switch to a thinkpad. i own a t480s (shoulda bought the t480 but i dont know much about thinkpads at the moment) and noticed the speakers are really awful, i use my laptop for media consumption and work which means it occasionally sits on a bed playing a movie or YouTube. the speakers sound very low quality and sometimes even muffled to where you can barely hear anything, i was wondering if anyones ever done something like this and if its easy to do. i saw a post someone retrofitted ipad speakers into theirs but i dont think thats possible for my application (since they did it on a t480) but im not sure. mainly looking for suggestions here
This is half review/reccomendation, half me just talking about how much I love my first thinkpad. That being said, the 6th gen p14s intel feels like the perfect laptop for college engineering to me.
Most importantly, the RTX 500 blackwell has CUDA for simulation and is ISV certified for CAD.
It's tanky and dense feeling but not crazy heavy, good balance between power and battery life/noise, 14.5 inch screen is perfect size wise (I'd recommend the 2560 x 1600, the default option kind of sucks), the keyboard is amazing, the fans are quiet, its just an excellent laptop and I could not be happier. The only downside is the spec to price ratio being steep. You can find more powerful laptops for less.
I don't have any other experience with thinkpads though, any thoughts?
Since today it now takes few minutes to turn on after i press the power button while the light blinks then this shows up. Is this bad?
Last year I bought a refurbished X13 Yoga G4 from a not to small german refurbishment company. I was more or less happy with it until one key stopped working. As it was still under warranty I shipped it to Lenovo.
The repair took two weeks and when I got my laptop back I could not trust my eyes.
They changed it to a completely different layout. I called the service hotline immediately, but after a first sorry, they found out that the laptop originally came with this Hungarian layout and no one could tell how the German keyboard was build into the laptop.
However Lenovo now refuses to change it back to German because to their data they did the right change to the original part.
So I had a laptop with a single broken key and now have a completely unusable keyboard layout. They never reached out to me before the change if I want to change the layout.
Kind of funny but also pretty annoying that I either have to pay a few hundred euros to change it back to German or have to live with shitty letter stickers.
The other day I was able to find a really cheap m700 tiny for around 20 euros, that's really cheap in my country. I installed fedora server, added some ram, a 500 GB HDD with a sata 128 SSD, and I'm running jellyfin and cockpit. Genuinely dont need more, I live in doors and I dont pay for the electricity so it's a full 24/7 sever, I use tailscale to acces it from uni when I need it, and it's pretty much silent. Idk I feel proud of this little machine. Btw I use a l14 gen 2 amd as a daily drive so I belong here
There’s something strangely maternal about caring for a machine that has survived as long as you have. It was born into the same era, carrying its own life and yet now it sits in your hands like something dependent on your help. What was once someone else’s tool, becomes yours through care. Cleaning its keys, choosing what it gets to become next. It feels less like ownership and more like friendship, as if you’ve adopted a peer and somehow become its keeper. Something your age, something that should feel equal, instead awakens the soft maternal instinct to protect, preserve, and quietly keep running.