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Libreboot support for T480/T480s is here!

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yay! That means the t490 is next, right?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Best thinkpad (sorry can't hear your replies over the sound that the fan makes)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Is is available for t470? I never expected I'd see the day where these so recent computers would be supported. Kinda of amazing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

It should be [at least possible]: as deguard page says,

This covers Intel Skylake, Kaby Lake and Kaby Lake Refresh / Coffeelake

And .*70-s are skl/kbl

Edit: I mean, not this particular port but the attack they've used to make it work

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Nice. Will keep it under watch.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

By the way, thanks for both the good news and leading me into finding out my internal battery started spicypillowing 🤣

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Well, as it is it throttles at 65° so much that it can't even handle Quake 3. It's basically unusable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Fear is the mind killer. Since the deck I am truly free to game

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

is there a service in the US that offers to flash this for anyone with an existing T480?