Result: A laptop with awesome specs in all regards except CPU, and even the CPU is still respectable, replaceable everything, and a great display. For overall somewhere around 500-700€.
There’s nothing better on the market right now, especially as this gives you powerbridge, so you can keep two external batteries and just replace them when they drop to 0% instead of having to wait for it to charge.
And as the T470/T480 is easy to open up, you just need a small iFixit kit and 30 minutes to do all these replacements.
1. Get a T480 with the i7-8650
2. Get the 95Wh battery option (24Wh internal + 72Wh external)
3. Upgrade RAM to 32GB DDR4-2400
4. Upgrade SSD to 2TB NVMe
5. Upgrade display to the T14 Gen2’s 1080p 100% sRGB 400nits display (available with custom brackets for T470/T480 e.g. here: https://www.xelent-store.de/Innolux-N140HCG-GQ2-400cd-Low-Po...)
Result: A laptop with awesome specs in all regards except CPU, and even the CPU is still respectable, replaceable everything, and a great display. For overall somewhere around 500-700€.
There’s nothing better on the market right now, especially as this gives you powerbridge, so you can keep two external batteries and just replace them when they drop to 0% instead of having to wait for it to charge.
And as the T470/T480 is easy to open up, you just need a small iFixit kit and 30 minutes to do all these replacements.