I waffled for months over which laptop I wanted to get. Thought about a Framework 13 for a while as repairability is important to me, but wanted the presence of an established company.
It came down to the X1 2-in-1 with Lunar Lake, or the P14 with AMD Ryzen AI 9.
Decided on the X1 due to the better battery life, OLED screen, and tablet mode, knowing I was taking a chance on how well things would be supported since AMD is obviously much more mature in Linux land.
Got 32GB of RAM, the OLED screen, standard touchpad with buttons, and the Yoga pen which I'm still figuring out.
But man has it been awesome. I took my 4TB Fedora KDE drive out of my ancient MacBook Air, popped it in my Thinkpad, and was up and running almost instantly.
Right out the box, with kernel 6.17.10, everything works except the webcam (and hardware video decode, but that was an easy fix I'll talk about later).
Battery life appears to be in the 10-12 hour range, which I consider pretty good for an x86 Linux system with an OLED screen. I'm only doing web browsing and document editing, and a few games here and there...
Which brings me to my next point. The Arc 140v is surprisingly powerful. It doesn't even get particularly hot and noisy. I run Jedi: Fallen Order in 1080p on max graphics, at a hair under 60fps.
For reference, my previous "gaming PC" was a 2010 Mac Pro with an RX580 in it. I'm sure that card was bottlenecked by the ancient CPUs and PCIe 2.0 interface, but I saw similar framerates, granted at 1440p, but that was on a big monitor so I'm satisfied with 1080p on the Arc 140v.
This OLED screen though, best display I've ever put eyes on. Incredible colors, insane brightness, and HDR YouTube videos look incredible after doing the manual calibration.
I love tablet mode too. It works perfectly, auto-rotate and all. Finally have something that scratches that tablet itch without the disappointment of an iPad.
Standby time even seems perfectly reasonable, draining just under 1% battery per hour.
The only hitch (other than the webcam) was getting hardware video decoding working, and it turned out to be a really simple fix: installing intel-media-driver via dnf, and installing Intel VAAPI Driver flatpak.
All in all, extremely happy. Such a pleasant machine to use. I feel like it's truely uniquely mine and it all works quite well. If you're considering it, I say do it. It's a nice piece of hardware and a joy to own and use.
EDIT TO ADD FURTHER DETAILS: I've noticed the trackpad is particularly seamless on the Thinkpad compared to my old MacBook. On the MacBook, sometimes tap-to-click wouldn't quite register, particularly when using a multi-finger tap-to-click. And the tracking felt just a little odd. On the Thinkpad, it's perfect. Super polished.
The keboard is just delightful. Quiet and soft in a luxurious sort of way, but with a perfect amount of mechanical feedback to making typing a real pleasure. MacBook keyboards can suck it.
ANECDOTAL BATTERY LIFE REPORT: It really is quite good. This morning I only lost 2% in the 30 minutes I spent browsing/posting online. It does appear that I'm burning 4-5% per hour with the screen brightness on 10% (and it's absolutely usable that low because of how good this OLED panel is). I know that's not a proper 100-0 benchmark, but it extrapolates extremely well. A Linux laptop that even hints at 20 hours of use is mind-blowing.
