ThinkPad X1 Yoga

I'm an engineer that has both an apple silicon laptop (mbp, m2) and a linux laptop (arch, thinkpad x1 yoga.) I choose the mac every day of the week and it's not even close. [...] The real killer though is battery life. [...] The thinkpad, despite my best efforts with powertop, the most aggressive frequency scaling i could get, and a bunch of other little tricks, lasts 2 hours. [...]

[...] I'm using a Thinkpad X1 Yoga right now. It survived a 4 or 5 foot drop onto a tile floor recently; I had to disassemble it to reseat the touchpad and fans that got knocked out of place, and the aluminum chassis now has dents on the corners, but the laptop overall took it like a champ. [...]

[...] In my case, my ThinkPad X1 (Yoga 3rd Gen) used to boot despite what appeared to be kernel panics, but typing "continue" at the kernel prompt would skip past them and everything would then work fine. [...] It also seems there's been some work on USB Audio (yay!), but it now causes a kernel panic on boot if a Focusrite Scarlett is connected. [...] The Scarlett has never officially worked in Haiku, but it at least never used to crash the system. In my case, I've reverted back to the USB Audio Scarlett Haiku driver that Claude Sonnet vibe coded for me, and for me that's working. [...]

[...] "Works" on my ThinkPad X1 Yoga 3rd Gen (which is an 8th Gen Core i7 device). [...] They finally added support for the WiFi in my particular ThinkPad. There's basically no bluetooth support, so if you want a wireless mouse and keyboard, something like the Logi Pebble 2 bundle with wireless USB dongle works well. [...] A lot of Qt software has been ported across, though obviously the ideal would be truly native BeOS software. [...] There's Claws Mail, but it has enough bugs that I didn't even find it usable, nevermind reliable. [...] I ended up building my own minimal TUI API harness / client on Haiku to try and get work done. [...] I've been wanting to use Claude to help write more Haiku / BeOS software and fix various OS issues - a couple of weeks ago I used the Claude API and $30 API credit to make a USB UAC 2 audio driver for Haiku that works with Focusrite Scarlett devices (both playback and recording). [...]

I'm really enjoying Thinkpad X1 Yoga as a Linux laptop. [...] Also battery life is average, but there's a way to optimize the system for minimum power draw which I never did.

iFixit lacks a score on the ThinkPad X1 Yoga, but considering I have used it for half a decade, it definitely is a 10. Manual: Fucking amazing; +1 Replacement Parts: Yes; +1 Teardown + Reassemble: No adhesive, philips only, no pry tool needed; no pairing; +8

I daily openSUSE Tumbleweed on a Thinkpad X1 Yoga, and while I don't use the 2-in-1 functionality a lot, I've found it to be a solid experience.

That sounds very strange. I got my Thinkpad X1 Yoga Gen8 (13th gen i7 U-series w/ 32 GB RAM) with a 4K 16:10 OLED display. Best laptop I have ever had, amazingly fast and lasts the whole day. When I did my research before buying, I know the X1 Carbon was available with at least a 2.5K OLED display.

picked up a thinkpad x1 yoga gen2 off Craigslist this morning since my laptop screen shattered last night (thank God i just got paid and there was a good deal) and my God the built in tablet pen rules

My eldest has been using my old Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Yoga, and while I was away it started erroring on boot with "Fan error" and refusing to turn on. I took the back off, had a look, but couldn't see anything interesting. There was a "Reset" microswitch though, so I hit it, and reattached the back.

Not a pro but I have a work issued Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Yoga Gen 6 and I would never recommend anyone get this. I’ve had far too many issues since I got it and it was brand new when sent to me.