Do not fear! I hated Lenovo after the T480s and sweared to never buy anything from then ever again. But I bought T490 to my new job and spent a day tweaking it

Do not fear! I hated Lenovo after the T480s and sweared to never buy anything from then ever again. But I bought T490 to my new job and spent a day tweaking it to my liking (I come from mac) and was pleasantly surprised how well it runs. Compared to T480s the touchpad has better feel and the laptop is able to cool itself so I’m not facing the fan issue (it is still present when on AC but hardly noticeable) I’m running Fedora 31 with Cinnamon and with disabled Ethernet, Fingerprint and SD card reader in BIOS, the power consumption with 40 tabs on Firefox and brightness on 40% is around 3.5W which gets me ~10 hours. Pretty sure you could get it even lower with minimalistic Arch setup. Don’t get me wrong, I would love Macbook (2015) in the linux world with stelar touchpad, great battery life and out-of-the box setup, but this as close as it gets and I believe there is no other option right now.