Libreboot support for T480/T480s is here!
Yay! That means the t490 is next, right?
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Right?
Best thinkpad (sorry can’t hear your replies over the sound that the fan makes)
The fan in my T480 isn’t very loud. I have an old Clevo laptop that’s much louder and the fans even run while it’s idle.
idk the fan’s pretty decent compared to my other machines. The HP I was daily driving before I got my T480s not only sounds like it’s trying to take off, but the fan is constantly running (I’ve tried turning off this feature in the UEFI, to no avail).
I have a T480. Apparently they fixed the fan in the S. I have 16gb ram and 2tb storage and yet it can’t handle geoguessr in my browser. The fan likes to get real loud and temp gets hot. Sometimes decides to do that when im not dojng anything on it. Occasionally it’ll randomly refuse to boot because of “fan error.” Usually going in and jiggling the fan internally works but it’s annoying to deal with. Tried reapplying thermal paste but that didn’t make much of a difference. Other than that it’s been a good laptop.
Is is available for t470? I never expected I’d see the day where these so recent computers would be supported. Kinda of amazing.
Nice. Will keep it under watch.
By the way, thanks for both the good news and leading me into finding out my internal battery started spicypillowing 🤣
Hmh. I feel the growing need to replace my E480 with a T480.
Edit: Hmh, 200€, and I could probably make some money back by selling the E…
No support for the nVidia graphics though. I was hoping for that for my T580 to be able to raise the stupid thermal limits but I seem to be at the mercy of nvidia.
Do you really want to increase the temperature of your GPU that much? CPUs are more than happy to run at 99c all day, but GPU aren’t so much, especially the bigger ones. The MX150 is pretty small so it should handle it well, but still.
Well, as it is it throttles at 65° so much that it can’t even handle Quake 3. It’s basically unusable.
WTF 65 c don’t sound right. Are you sure it’s actually thermal throttling and not power throttling? My P1 throttles it’s CPU when it’s drawing too much power, but hwinfo reports it as prochot or thermal throttling when I disable prochot.
Yeah, been through a whole lot of troubleshooting and complaining at Lenovo. Eventually I gave up. Getting a Steam Deck cured me of wanting to use the laptop for gaming.
Fear is the mind killer. Since the deck I am truly free to game
is there a service in the US that offers to flash this for anyone with an existing T480?
