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Good laptop, but with a few small drawbacks: - No vapor chamber cooling, just regular heat pipes - Monitor has thick borders - Not 16:10 - Fn/Ctrl are swapped (all thinkpad laptops) - Thinkpad's fingerprint readers never worked reliably to me - I personally prefer USB-C network adapter instead of the bulky RJ45 - 720p camera, but most of laptops have a bad web cam... - I assume it will have very average speakers. Usu…
Fn/Ctrl can be swapped in BIOS
If you read this blog post and think "Nice! I will buy the same Thinkpad and use Linux", then be aware that the previous generation P14s has serious issues with power drain in standby[0]. These issues have been not been resolved since September 2020. In large parts of Europe, the second generation P14s is not yet available. So buyer beware! [0] https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Other-Linux-Discussions/T14-AMD...
What made it worse: Lenovo's own USB-C Gen 2 Dock would refuse to charge the battery when it was drained. I had to borrow a friend's MacBook Pro USB-C charger to get the battery up to a reasonable charge.
(Yes, the dock does provide enough power for charging the laptop.)
I have a P14s with a 4750U and it flies through Pop!_OS. Wouldn't hesitate to recommend to anybody.
Early on I was using ubuntu LTS and had some issues resuming the P14s after suspend, but now everything works great using the 5.11 kernel (included w/ubuntu 21.04)
If you read this blog post and think "Nice! I will buy the same Thinkpad and use Linux", then be aware that the previous generation P14s has serious issues with power drain in standby[0]. These issues have been not been resolved since September 2020. In large parts of Europe, the second generation P14s is not yet available. So buyer beware! [0] https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Other-Linux-Discussions/T14-AMD...
I had the same issue with the ThinkPad T14 AMD. Left it in my backpack for two days and the battery was completely drained. What made it worse: Lenovo's own USB-C Gen 2 Dock would refuse to charge the battery when it was drained. I had to borrow a friend's MacBook Pro USB-C charger to get the battery up to a reasonable charge. (Yes, the dock does provide enough power for charging the laptop.)
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You can change it in the UEFI so that Fn acts as Ctrl and vice versa.
> You can change it in the UEFI so that Fn acts as Ctrl and vice versa. First thing I do on every thinkpad. It would be very interesting to know what percentage of customers actually wants that Fn key in that location instead of Ctrl.
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You can change it in the UEFI so that Fn acts as Ctrl and vice versa.
> You can change it in the UEFI so that Fn acts as Ctrl and vice versa. First thing I do on every thinkpad. It would be very interesting to know what percentage of customers actually wants that Fn key in that location instead of Ctrl.
I'm surprised so many people express any preference, though. My take is that the Fn key is an abomination and it's not present on desktop keyboards so either choice of location is wrong. If I could, I'd remove both Fn and the 'Windows' key. Neither my Chromebook nor the T40-series Thinkpads I first used have these keys, and they are noticeably more comfortable due to the larger Control and Alt keys it permits.
I'm also surprised people complain about this but not about the layout of Apple laptop keyboards, where 'fn' is also in the corner.
Good laptop, but with a few small drawbacks: - No vapor chamber cooling, just regular heat pipes - Monitor has thick borders - Not 16:10 - Fn/Ctrl are swapped (all thinkpad laptops) - Thinkpad's fingerprint readers never worked reliably to me - I personally prefer USB-C network adapter instead of the bulky RJ45 - 720p camera, but most of laptops have a bad web cam... - I assume it will have very average speakers. Usu…
Unfortunately, putting a good camera into a laptop is a challenge. With the screens / lids being so thin, nothing really good, like a phone camera, can fit in.
And I also don't trust biometry auth anywhere. Biometry should be a login, not a password, because you can't revoke or replace it.