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Tap-to-click actually registers my clicks, unlike on the default T480 trackpad, and scrolling is extremely precise. Update: The new trackpad from the Thinkpad X1 Extreme is fantastic. I've ordered a glass trackpad that comes with the Thinkpad X1 Extreme (and is compatible with the T480), so I'll update this article once I've installed that. The trackpad is good, compared to other Windows laptops, but terrible compared to the MacBook Air. (It takes two DDR4 2666 MHz SO-DIMM sticks) Not that I need that much as a web developer/writer (VS Code, GitKraken and Chrome take up 8GB), but it's nice to have. While upgrading the LCD screen, I noticed I had a spare 16GB RAM stick lying around my home office, so I also upgraded to 32GB RAM. Update: After the brand new 72wh battery came in (for a total system capacity of around 90wh), my battery life is now 14-15 hours. I can also undervolt the CPU to cut power consumption further, but 8 hours is enough for me when traveling.Īfter a week of testing (using the machine as I normally would), the battery life on the new 1920x1080 screen ended up being around 6 hours, I must have just been slamming the CPU/RAM when I first tested it. Note that the battery that came with my T480 is not brand new: as it's a 5 year old enterprise laptop, it had about 80% max charge of its original design. Unfortunately upgrading the screen cut battery life to about 4 hours 15 minutes (with the screen set to high brightness), so I've ordered a 72wh battery, which should bring that back up to around 8 hours. So I ordered a replacement 1920x1080 IPS screen (Innolux N140HCE-EN1 Rev.C2), followed the ifixit guide, and had a decent screen after 30 minutes of tinkering. (one quick boot into Windows to check specs before blowing it all away) It hurt to look at, the resolution was too small for anything except using the terminal, and I couldn't use it sitting next to my window unless brightness was turned up to 100% (on a cloudy day!), and even then it wasn't great. The base model LCD screen that the T480 comes with is incredibly bad. Short of the CPU, which is a downer, but this isn't exactly an MNT Reform laptop. I don't know if you noticed a theme in the specs, but everything in this laptop is upgradeable.

Internal 24wh battery + external 24wh battery (6 hours 15 minutes default battery life on linux, upgradeable to 92wh total).It's not as insane of a downgrade as it sounds. I recently replaced my 2020 MacBook Air M1 with 8GB of RAM with a Lenovo Thinkpad T480.