Classic example of a Chinese "refurbished" (unofficially) unit - fake aftermarket battery, no stickers on the backside due to the 'pre-sales wash/clean' procedures. Hope your unit still has the original SSD which is OPAL compatible (great for Bitlocker encryption with low CPU overhead) and original RAM stick(s) as Chinese 'preparators' usually replace those with cheap and trashy components from local market. Please check that you have internal battery installed as that one is also usually replaced with a plastic placeholder when the unit is "prepared" in China. Anyway this is still a great machine especially for Linux.
Too much hassle looking for a half-decent T480 these days. I went with the X1 Carbon G6 - it's build quality is miles ahead of any other laptop i have come across and the keyboard still has the 1.8mm travel thus a joy to use. 8th Gen i7 - 8650U 15W TDP but behave and performs like a 45W (with a bit of undervolting) i'm getting 4160pts on cinebench r23 and 1100pts single core - from a 6 year old laptop.. Mine has the chinese battery with 35Wh capacity its still giving me 4-6h backup with turbo-boost disabled and 80% screen brightness.
Nice! -- QUESTION -- I ordered a used T480 with the FHD/1080P screen. However, the sent the one with a "touch" screen which is a feature I would never use. It is also FHD/1080p. My question is, I can return it and get the one without "touch". Do they both view the same or is the Touch screen worse quality or a battery hog? Please help. I must decide quickly and I think they intentionally stuck me with this screen.
Nice! -- QUESTION -- I ordered a used T480 with the FHD/1080P screen. However, the sent the one with a "touch" screen which is a feature I would never use. It is also FHD/1080p. My question is, I can return it and get the one without "touch". Do they both view the same or is the Touch screen worse quality or a battery hog? Please help. I must decide quickly and I think they intentionally stuck me with this screen.v
thanks for the video. i want to ask, does the i5 8th gen support the windows 11? or need special tricks to install windows 11 to 8th gen intel processor?
@@TechThusiast okay, thanks for reply. I have a plan to buy this laptop with i7 8th gen and 16gb of ram with reasonable price. So i need some reference and your video soo helpful and useful for me. Thank you so much.
I am in application development and yes... I upgraded my old laptop (Pentium Gold; 8GB RAM; 1TB NVME) to this Thinkpad model (i7 8550u; 16GB RAM; 1TB NVME). You dont need highend gear to do some programming. VS Code/Community, IntelliJ or NeoVim are running great on it... if you need something to simulate stuff then I would aim for a laptop with more cores
Not particularly fast. Can't do my heavy lifting anymore. Great cheap Linux laptop. The s model (T480s) is *MUCH* nicer than the regular T480 at the expense of no massive rear battery. The stock screens are all pretty bad. In the US these are regularly around $100 - that's how much I paid for my second. I've upgaded my main machine to a T14 G2A ($230 5850u) and have a Dell 5431 on its way in ($450 BNIB, 1250p). To be fair, if I was just using it as a laptop the T480 would still be a fine machine, but I like to bring my work with me.
@@TechThusiast Mine has 2 16 gig sticks. Luckily, DDR4 is cheap. These 8th gen machines really are fantastic for the price.. if you're on a tight budget I don't think you can go wrong with one
What? The T480s is literally worse in every aspect. Weak CPU heatsink (T480 can have a 2-heatpipe heatsink that drops temps by 20-25C with Honeywell PTM7950) that makes the CPU overheat and restricts any overclocking, RAM being expandable only to 24GB, which means only 16GB are usable in dual-channel mode (and you would need all the RAM speed you can get now with the more bloated apps, since DDR4-2400 is now considered to be slow, also 32GB RAM options are very rare and far between), low battery capacity and not being to hot-swap batteries (going the MacBook route is a no-no), and so much more, like the lack of drain holes for the keyboard when you spill your drink (or your soy latte, if you're a MacBook apologist). You can replace the TN panel with any other screen, be it an IPS panel, or a low-power IGZO panel that costs a lot but is a good investment. Multiple choices of simple screen upgrades also show that T480 is the superior laptop. If you're only picking the T480s because it weighs a little less, you're either a baby or you have completely messed up your priorities (you're a simpleton). With ever growing specs requirements, getting every bit of upgradability and overclocking capabilities is a necessity. Especially because Intel's HD Graphics are too slow for modern workloads now, and you most likely need that Nvidia MX150 dGPU, which throttles hard on the T480s with a combined workload, not to mention that the T480s has a castrated 10W version instead of a 25W version.
