[nextos]

Is it silent? I've found recent Thinkpads to be a hit and miss in terms of good thermal cooling and fan firmware.

Sadly fan speed is not adjustable by the user in the last few generations.

I'm also curious about their new AMD offerings.

[weystrom]

I have one at work and it's not, I ended up using my personal MBP13 instead.

Fan seems to struggle to dissipate even 25 watts of heat. Sometimes it would be sitting at 50+ degrees C, just idling.

I asked our IT guys if I can repaste it, but they told me it's still on warranty. It might help, but I'll never know I guess.

[organsnyder]

My T480 is fairly quiet unless it's under pretty heavy load. I do have the model with discrete graphics, which apparently has much better cooling (even when the discrete chip isn't being used).

[Izkata]

All the laptops I've had over the years (HP, Dell, 2 Asus, now a Thinkpad, plus like 3 Dells at work) have idled at about 50 C. Is that not supposed to be normal?

[vesche]

Mine is quite silent I'd say. How I run my OS is very minimal so my CPU/RAM usage at rest is very light. I only hear the fans kick on loud when I run intense jobs. However, I'm also interested in AMD offerings- but more because of the intel chip vulnerabilities that have come to light over the past ~2 years (Spectre/Meltdown).

[jotm]

Which models? Afaik you can adjust fan speed on most, probably all, laptops by directly changing the embedded controller values.