Wednesday, November 06, 2024

Which Thinkpad T14 Gen 5 hardware is better supported?

Hi list,

I plan tu buy T14 Gen 5 and have to choose Intel or Ryzen.
Now I have X270 as a daily driver and dualboot to OpenBSD
and (once or twice a month) to Windows.

After years of getting used thinkpads, I want to buy new
that will served a few nice years.

I have choose T14 as similar to X270, and support changing
memory, battery, ssd.

But the information about support of such new model
is almost non existent. I'm lost as i can find information about
intel being more supported, but on the other hand,
i find more dmesg's for previous generation of T14 with Ryzen.
I found info about AX211 being supported.

So the question to the list:

Which hardware is better supported (as a whole):
1. System based on Ryzen
- AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 8840U,
- AMD Radeon 780M,
- Ethernet RTL8111EPV,
- Wifi Qualcomm® Wi-Fi® 6E NFA725A or  NCM825 (don't know if i can choose which)

2. System based on Intel
- Intel Core Ultra 7 155U
- Intel Graphics
- Ethernet Intel I219-LM or n I219-V
- Wifi Intel AX211 (or BE200 less likely)

Or which hardware have a chance of being supported in the future?
(Yes, i feared to ask that question knowing that "dont ask, do" will be the answer,
but I have no knowledge of driver programming, but want to know that is the probability
of support for this new hardware)

Best regards
MichaƂ
 

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