Repair goes mega mainstream with the launch of Lenovo’s new T-series business laptops, which earned our highest honor with a 10/10 repairability score.
I’ll never buy a ThinkPad again after the T16 Gen 1 that I have at work. That thing was overheating from day one, absolutely terrible for a 3000€ business laptop.
Besides Lenovo’s shitty BIOS issues (which they have tried to fix about five times in the last 3 years), sometimes boot-up still takes a minute to get past the Lenovo logo.
I don’t even have a lemon or anything, several coworkers have also complained about the same issues. One got so angry he smacked the laptop a few times on his table out of frustration (no actual damage) and forced IT to give him a different more powerful model with better cooling.
Intel or AMD. Intel purposefully does this. It’s not overheating because it’s hitting 100c, it’s designed to run at 100c in order to turbo boost as much and for as long as possible. Outside of the turbo thick gamer laptops they’ll all be like this unless you put them in a power saving mode.
AMD is less stupid about this, but still does something similar.
Yup, same as my machine. PL1 is 64 watts which no way a smaller laptop with normal cooling can keep up. That’s just how modern CPUs are designed to run.
When it switches to PL2 and it fully settles down it’s limited to just 21 watts which is nowhere near enough for that CPU to stretch it’s legs. With the cooler from a dGPU model it handles the heat a lot better (60-70c steady state) but GOD is it still slow. But that’s mostly because Intel is incompetent. AMD versions fare so much better.
My most recent ThinkPad also overheated an insane amount at whatever use I could put it through, and the fan was constantly running full speed. It was like that from day one, and there was no dust or anything, it was just a terrible machine.
Yeah, the fan control was a mess too, like you clicked the mouse once and that stupid thing randomly ramped up, then immediately ramped down again. Any time you actually used the CPU it overheated anyway.
I’m actually switching to a desktop PC now at work, that’s how sick I got of this laptop (:
I’ll never buy a ThinkPad again after the T16 Gen 1 that I have at work. That thing was overheating from day one, absolutely terrible for a 3000€ business laptop.
Besides Lenovo’s shitty BIOS issues (which they have tried to fix about five times in the last 3 years), sometimes boot-up still takes a minute to get past the Lenovo logo.
I don’t even have a lemon or anything, several coworkers have also complained about the same issues. One got so angry he smacked the laptop a few times on his table out of frustration (no actual damage) and forced IT to give him a different more powerful model with better cooling.
Intel or AMD. Intel purposefully does this. It’s not overheating because it’s hitting 100c, it’s designed to run at 100c in order to turbo boost as much and for as long as possible. Outside of the turbo thick gamer laptops they’ll all be like this unless you put them in a power saving mode.
AMD is less stupid about this, but still does something similar.
i7-1260P, I did try limiting the boost, but the CPU runs like ass anyway.
Yup, same as my machine. PL1 is 64 watts which no way a smaller laptop with normal cooling can keep up. That’s just how modern CPUs are designed to run.
When it switches to PL2 and it fully settles down it’s limited to just 21 watts which is nowhere near enough for that CPU to stretch it’s legs. With the cooler from a dGPU model it handles the heat a lot better (60-70c steady state) but GOD is it still slow. But that’s mostly because Intel is incompetent. AMD versions fare so much better.
My most recent ThinkPad also overheated an insane amount at whatever use I could put it through, and the fan was constantly running full speed. It was like that from day one, and there was no dust or anything, it was just a terrible machine.
Yeah, the fan control was a mess too, like you clicked the mouse once and that stupid thing randomly ramped up, then immediately ramped down again. Any time you actually used the CPU it overheated anyway.
I’m actually switching to a desktop PC now at work, that’s how sick I got of this laptop (: