 So I finally got a new laptop and my old laptop still works fine This is the old x2 50 and a lot of people say hey Tom what laptop are you using? I've got a review of this from I've had this for a number of years And one things I wanted to show and especially holding it up like this Do you see I have worn it down to being glossy this thing has actually been a tank and right here You even think pads worn out now the think pad series I've been using since IBM used to have flink pad Then it was changed over to Lenovo was sold to them I think they were the actual manufacturer of them and IBM You know sold the whole rights to them and they've been producing for a number of years But I've been a think pad user for a very long time They've always had really good tactile keyboards like the feel to them is great And that's kind of what you know really sold me on and the x series is like I said This is held up really well It may or may not have fallen a few times and you know with a solid state disk in there no disk damage You know plenty of stickers on it, which clearly bother a lot of people a little comments on there I don't like having stickers on there And you know this has the whole docking system on there, but I never used it Does have the extent of battery, but this was so good to me that I couldn't resist even though reviewing other laptops I decided again to get a Think pad laptop and as you can tell by the lack of stickers it must be new that is correct I just got this yesterday loaded Linux on there But let's start with the specs on it's we're actually gonna pop it open and review it real quick here This is a 14 inch versus the smaller display. It was in the x2 50 But still 1920 1080 8th Gen Intel quad core i5 80 250 oh you 1.6 gigahertz UHD graphics It has a to Shiva 256 gig NVMe in here, which is quite fast, but it has also and this is just something they Added on in this particular deal was a 1 terabyte hard drive 16 gigs of ram Intel wireless with a 2x2 Bluetooth and a 45 watt hour battery Micro SD reader, which is strange non-backlight keyboard disappointing, but let's talk about this a little bit So I'm actually showing you the Amazon deal that I bought this from and I just couldn't pass it up at 779 I wanted the backlight keyboard that comes with the t-series so the L series This is an L480 and I have a t480 which is a higher-end one and it has a few more things you can get with it This does not have the fingerprint reader This does not have a docking station option on the bottom of it that you would get with some of the other ones I believe the newer t-series comes with that. I'm not an expert on every one of their models But for the price savings and this is a just slightly slower processor than you get in a t-series But it works perfectly fine for me and I need a new laptop because I have some traveling to do and that traveling is going to Require me to do some video editing while I'm on the road for a few days or at least I'd like to do video editing So I'm taking out the 1 terabyte drive putting another SSD in here So I'll have an MVME boot another SSD for storage enough to get the job done since you have a 240 Extra laying around that will go into this now the laptop itself will go an overhead view here is Layed out like any other Lenovo Thinkpad that I've had before so layouts are similar now This is something people may not like the fact that the function and control keys are reversed because you expect the function key To be right here good news There's a BIOS option and this was in the previous one as well that allows me to swap these keys So function and control are actually swapped right now because my finger is used to being right here to hit the control keyboard Plenty of responsiveness and they'll turn it to the side here So you can see it's still got the same feel as the keyboard did on my other one But without the backlighting like I said, I wish you had the backlight, but it doesn't typing is easy The texture though, and I don't know if it's because I've worn the other one smooth This one seems to have more of a texture so plasticky But it doesn't have the smoothness that I seem to have on there But I can't remember if that was like that several years ago or just over the years I've worn it to be that smooth, but it's still really easy to peel still has a little Mouse here so you can move that around. I'm never ever use it But I know some people are like a huge fan of that. I do like the larger track pad It does make two fingers scrolling so much easier to put the two fingers on there easily quickly scroll Any of the buttons up here for the clicks or you can just of course do the double tap It does have the option up here with the function key so you can switch them back and forth So you don't have to help well, it would be this key to change them around or leave them at the fault like the media keys at the top One thing I really want to comment on I've reviewed several laptops that are Dedicated designed for Linux by other companies and those are nice because everything works out of the box this Almost so close to working 100% out of the box I will show you the one change I had to make on this for a bunch of and I notice people in the arch Forums and a bunch of forums both had the same problem is the track pad There is one minor thing you have to do to get the track pad working in this particular device So this is the one thing I had to do to get it working here is the eland tech touchpad not working after upgrading to 1810 1804 this does have that same touchpad and We'll let you spare all the reading here and show you actually what needs to be done So there's right here. We talked about changing firmware ad's and touching this that but this is the important part grub Command line Linux P mouse eland tech SMB bus zero. Where do you do that? Well, that's in Etsy default grub So if we go Vim Etsy default grub, actually, we would need to do if we do this properly sudo Vim Etsy default grub And there's that command I added grub command line Linux PS mouse land tech We'll go ahead and exit this and then you would go sudo update Grub it'll update it and that makes it work every time on boot So add that line reboot the computer magic. It works fine Until they have it fixed it is a known issue with there So that's the only thing I had to do to get Linux working on this fully and everything else worked out of the box Everything but the touchpad. So I plugged a mouse in to finish setting it up Quick Google search of touchpad not working at L480 brought the site and I'll leave a link to that right there Now I'm currently running on this pop OS 1904 Like I said other than that change it loaded perfectly fine I set my drive up encrypted like I always do and I will be encrypting the other drive that we add to it But everything else has worked perfectly fine on this So the next thing we're going to do is shut it down and take a look at the physical layer Take a look at the parts on it and pull it apart because let's look at what's inside because I haven't looked yet I'm going to put that hard drive in So for ports we have a USB-C for power delivery. We have another USB-C over here We have a standard USB-A and all these are 3.1 and they support power delivery display port and data transfer on the USB-C So I haven't tested the display port functionality and Linux on there. That'll be a future video But that's kind of nice to have we also have the HDMI an odd choice of a micro SD reader So I thought that was a little odd that it's micro not to your standard But hey, whatever full-size RJ 45, which is handy because I use this for a lot of networking This site here headphone jack another USB-C 3.1 and vent for the fans pretty simple So now let's take it apart from the bottom Had to use my little plastic tool. There was a couple stubborn clips along the bottom But nothing too difficult to get out. So we see we have the both pieces of memory here the large battery Interesting fan design there that looks pretty clever a really small MVME over here But other than that pretty pretty simple to work on so this is the part we want though is to get this hard drive out to Put our SSD in it's got a handy little pull tab here. So Well, I see handy, but this took a little more there we go That came out and this was I did lift that up So let's put in the other drive Just a standard one terabyte spinner. It's gonna be very careful. This comes off the hole There's no screws holding it in from the sides. It's just A little rubber thing here Then we're gonna get this off. It's got some adhesive on it Very careful and away we go kind of There we go had to get some grip under it and slide it out So there we have that and it's all apart. Let's put the other drive in And we're gonna put in this sand disk that I had left over from my bill because I switched my computer to MVME I've already erased the drive. It's just a 240 But I just need a little extra storage on top of what's already in here because if you if I go and travel and do a Little bit of media creation definitely gonna need somewhere to put those data files more than the card I like to have backups of everything Getting that piece in was a little bit more challenging than I thought But it just has to go in there far enough So you kind of hold this up and clip it back down last thing we're gonna do is the adhesive was on the Other drive so we're gonna put a little bit of adhesive here We have a little bit of double-sided tape so I want that just to hold down Because it'll look nicer and keep everything in place. We're gonna put this double-sided tape here and Away we go now a nice and tight now the last thing I'm actually gonna do is before I put the lid back on I will go ahead and test this also while we're looking at the bottom I will comment that the sound on this is mediocre, but I don't really use this for sound It does have two grill spots right here with the two speakers That are downward firing so it doesn't make the absolute incredible audio experience, but that's not why I bought the laptop for I will also note before assembly. I like when they do the screws like this I did not have to take the screws out They're all here and they have a little clip on them that keeps them from just falling out So all the screws are still exactly where they need to be So the system booted up fine recognized the hard drive and we're all set. We installed the drive I wanted in here. Maybe I'll get a bigger one layer for now a 240 gig drive for the amount of content I will be producing while I'm traveling will be fine plus I still have the 256 gigs here and I'm not using it when I do set this up I will and I comment on this all the time I will set it up as an encrypted system now Lastly the thoughts on this laptop my final overview besides the sound being mediocre the screen People complained that the screen wasn't as bright. I will admit it is not as bright as my x250 But you are looking in bright studio lights, which if I find the right angle I can get some gloss going on here and you can see some of the shine But overall I find it very very usable. I'll admit I have this set brighter. I believe right now. Let me make sure Yeah, we're at maximum brightness for this. It's still completely readable under studio lights So obviously for home use it should be fine. I'm not sure how good it's going to be in direct sunlight But I pretty much don't use my laptop in direct sunlight The x250 was a little bit brighter, but I actually never use it at full brightness. I generally kept it It a little bit dimmer, but also I like the way that the Lenovo's do this this whole stand-up straight thing It's actually easier because a lot of slaps top stop right here being able to go a little bit further is kind of cool I will admit I've done that when I'm have a network plug plugged in and I'm up on a rack sometimes looking down at it When you're doing some network diagnostics, but I really like the laptop. I've only had it for a day I'll do maybe a follow-up review later, but like any of the Lenovo series or something I've been probably going to really enjoy they haven't disappointed me yet with any of the models I've had in the past and like I said, I've been using the whole ThinkPad line of laptops for quite a bit of time Well, that's my thoughts on it and thanks and I'll leave a link where you can get this on Amazon as Configured as you seen on here. They still have it on sale as of right now in September of 2019. 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