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brendoelfrendo • today at 5:44 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

I use a T480 as my daily driver and recently upgraded to a 72wh battery after the old 24wh pack died. I bought a Lenovo-branded Total Micro battery off of CDW to ensure I was actually getting what I paid for, as the last battery was a cheap knockoff that barely lasted a year. The 72wh battery was about a $10 difference to the 48wh battery and will easily last 10 hours but could last 14 hours with conservative use.

This is the specific battery I bought: https://www.cdw.com/product/total-micro-battery-lenovo-think...


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bigwheels • today at 6:08 PM

FYI brendo, here is the working link: https://www.cdw.com/product/total-micro-battery-lenovo-think...

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josteink • today at 6:36 PM

Same here. A T480 as my personal laptop. 4 core/8 thread i7 CPU, 24GB ram and 512GB NVMe.

Works for all my daily tasks, and light development. Feels nice and responsive.

I’m running arch Linux and my custom hyprland-fork, which I’m using for a more retro look and a little bit more mouse-affordances than Hyprland wants to provide.

Couldn’t be happier!