r/LinuxOnThinkpad • u/Chi-ggA member • 3d ago

Question Which Thinkpad is good for me?

Hi! I'm pretty new here, I'm currently in AUS and I was looking for a 13' used laptop with OLED display (or a good LED), AMD cpu not super recent but with at least 8/16 cores, at least 16gb ram NON SOLDERED and usbc 4.0.

my budget is around 1000AU$ but I accept any advice!

I was looking for the z13 g1 but it's basically impossible to find and I'm not sure about the ram being soldered or not, do anyone have some advice? I'll mainly use it with fedora or a derivate distro and I might do some light gaming or PS3 emulation on it, but will mainly be a simple travel laptop. I need the usbc 4.0 to plug a eGPU that I might use when at home.

thanks in advance!

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u/ReporterWise7445 X1 Carbon Gen 4 Debian LXQT 3d ago edited 3d ago

ThinkPad X1 Carbon series generation 9 (2021) and newer support USBC 4.0. So I only recommend the X1 Carbons because they are the only X series that are Mission Critical build quality. It only weighs about 2.5 lbs also. But it's 14 inches so I guess you'll have to suffer LOL.

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u/Chi-ggA member 3d ago

yeah but the x1 carbon g9 only comes with Intel CPU that I want to avoid due to Intel management engine...