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Get a T460. After extensive research I settled on this machine since the specs are very well balanced. You can get >15 hour battery life on this machine on both

by dman 10y ago

Get a T460. After extensive research I settled on this machine since the specs are very well balanced. You can get >15 hour battery life on this machine on both windows and linux and it is practically silent all the time.

rayiner 10y ago
I've got a T450s. The T460 is in many ways a downgrade from the T450s--no magnesium case, etc. It's also a major downgrade from the MBP. Dual-core rather than quad core, 14" rather than 15", no high-DPI display, SATA rather than NVMe. I think the touchpad and screen are similar to the T450s, and both those are very mediocre. The battery life is great, though, with the 6-cell.
- dman 10y ago
  Its the only T series laptop in the T46x generation that has a removable external battery. a. Its built like a tank b. It doesnt offer either a dgpu or a high resolution screen. For me this is a positive. On every recent laptop I have tried I have come to regret a high dpi screen or a discrete gpu since both those things compromise on battery and thermals extensively. Giving up on these two features means you win a lot back in terms of real world comfort. This includes my 2013 Mac Pro with the Nvidia card - the thermals / battery life on that are iffy. Apple does better than other vendors at extracting battery life out of a discrete GPU but that is not saying much. c. I own some Intel 750 nvme drives on my desktop. For all the work I do I dont see a measurable improvement when I am using those over the sata drive that comes with the T460. d. I do admit that over time I have begun to lean into the less is more philosophy when it comes to hardware. e. Getting 15 hours of real world battery and then hot swapping the external to get 9 / 10 more really changes the way I use this thing. This is only the second machine I have owned where I am tempted to order a second machine to stash away for future use.
  - rayiner 10y ago
    > a. Its built like a tank But less so than a T450s. Lenovo inexplicably limited the top-of-the-line magnesium shell to the slim-and-light 460s which has a non-replacable battery. > high resolution screen. That's a deal breaker for me. I'm not going back to reading text through a low-res screen. My 2013 rMBP 15" manages to get a solid 8-10 hours despite the retina display. PC manufacturers can't execute that because they're all jumping on the "4k" bandwagon, and there is no power-efficient 4k display on the market right now.

by dman 10y ago

rayiner 10y ago

I've got a T450s. The T460 is in many ways a downgrade from the T450s--no magnesium case, etc. It's also a major downgrade from the MBP. Dual-core rather than quad core, 14" rather than 15", no high-DPI display, SATA rather than NVMe. I think the touchpad and screen are similar to the T450s, and both those are very mediocre. The battery life is great, though, with the 6-cell.

dman 10y ago
Its the only T series laptop in the T46x generation that has a removable external battery. a. Its built like a tank b. It doesnt offer either a dgpu or a high resolution screen. For me this is a positive. On every recent laptop I have tried I have come to regret a high dpi screen or a discrete gpu since both those things compromise on battery and thermals extensively. Giving up on these two features means you win a lot back in terms of real world comfort. This includes my 2013 Mac Pro with the Nvidia card - the thermals / battery life on that are iffy. Apple does better than other vendors at extracting battery life out of a discrete GPU but that is not saying much. c. I own some Intel 750 nvme drives on my desktop. For all the work I do I dont see a measurable improvement when I am using those over the sata drive that comes with the T460. d. I do admit that over time I have begun to lean into the less is more philosophy when it comes to hardware. e. Getting 15 hours of real world battery and then hot swapping the external to get 9 / 10 more really changes the way I use this thing. This is only the second machine I have owned where I am tempted to order a second machine to stash away for future use.
- rayiner 10y ago
  > a. Its built like a tank But less so than a T450s. Lenovo inexplicably limited the top-of-the-line magnesium shell to the slim-and-light 460s which has a non-replacable battery. > high resolution screen. That's a deal breaker for me. I'm not going back to reading text through a low-res screen. My 2013 rMBP 15" manages to get a solid 8-10 hours despite the retina display. PC manufacturers can't execute that because they're all jumping on the "4k" bandwagon, and there is no power-efficient 4k display on the market right now.