[knaik94]

I had a big brother model of the t420, which uses the same battery and can also coreboot, the w520. It's the workstation model with i7 quad and a dedicated quadro graphics card. I understand the audience targeted here uses it mainly for development work.

So hardware video acceleration for newer formats isn't seen as a priority. That is an issue I came across, even with a quad core i7 and quardo, it struggle with h265 4k playback smoothly, and 4k vp9 pushed it a little hard too. 1080p youtube is fine as is x264, no problems there but x265 always gave it a little trouble.

There are many great things about it, but I thought I would mention the one drawback of an older thinkpad with older intel chips, is poor hardware accelerated video playback of newer codecs. If you stream online, it's a non issue mostly.

I had mine for 9 years before it finally died. I think the gpu overheated and burnt out, it gets to the login screen and then freezes. I was pushing it hard in terms of video encoding so part of it was my own fault. I still miss machine and that keyboard and nub.