Refurbished: Lenovo ThinkPad T480 Core i5-8350U 16GB Ram 256GB SSD FHD - V. GOOD - Refurb £211.99 with code @ newandusedlaptops4u / eBay

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Quality: Very Good - Refurbished (Click link above)

Processor: Intel Core i5-8350U 1.70GHz

Processor Generation: 8th Generation

Memory: 16GB DDR4

Hard Drive: 256GB SSD

Screen Size: 14-inch FHD widescreen. 1920 x 1080

CD Drive: None

Operating System: Windows 11 Pro 64 Bit

Battery: Minimum 2 hours standby - Please note this laptop has one battery installed. A second battery was optional when the laptop was originally manufactured. However, this laptop does not include the second battery.

Graphics Card: Intel UHD 620 Graphics

AC Adapter: Included

WiFi: Yes

Network: Internal

USB Ports: 2

Various: Webcam, HDMI, SD Card Reader, USB-C

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28th Mar
I posted some information in an earlier deal that may be helpful for potential buyers here

the stock screen is pretty bad at 250nits and 45% RGB colour gamut. You might want to swap the panel out for
something like this N140HCG-GQ2

Fix for the cpu throttling problem on linux
github.com/erp…led

If you want to run MacOS, there's a comprehensive guide here
github.com/val…-oc (edited)
28th Mar
Does anyone know what the screen resolution is? Also does this come with the 'poor' 250nits screen? Thanks
28th Mar
Does anyone know if the RAM is upgradeable on the T480?
28th Mar
2 unsoldered ram slots maximum of 64GB (2x32GB).
28th Mar
Mainland only. Great price if it would ship to NI
15 h, 24 m ago
Have you looked at something like this? It'll obviously be an extra delivery cost but still an option.

ukpostbox.com/ (edited)
28th Mar
Hold on…. 2 hours battery in standby
28th Mar
That the seller covering their arse in case it's got a worn battery.
28th Mar
Or is it better to pay the extra £30 for the i7 in the T480 ? (edited)
28th Mar
I wouldn't they run hotter so throttle earlier. There's only a couple percent in it performance wise.
28th Mar
Is it better to pay the extra £70 for the i7 and having the T490??
28th Mar
No. The T480 is the last great ThinkPad.
Author
28th Mar
Almost purchased when it was £238 recently, but this is an even better price.

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I felt it would be rude not to buy at this price!

+++ Edit +++

Link to firmware update utility, if it is needed. Please double check your laptop specs first.

Check your firmware version by right clicking on the system tray Thunderbolt icon and choosing "About". (edited)
28th Mar
Really? Fancy that £211 being less than £238

Ordered and thanks
28th Mar
Thanks OP - didn't go for this one, but I did find a T480P that even though it has a 7th gen (i7-7820HQ though, speeeeed), is supposedly officially compatible with W11. The higher resolution screen swung it for me. (edited)
9 h, 57 m ago
Just received mine.

Pros:
- backlit keyboard
- fingerprint sensor
- 1 internal and 1 external 24wh battery
- laptop is pretty much in pristine cosmetic condition apart from wear on touchpad

Cons:
- has a dead white pixel
- both batteries are pretty bad Main battery's showing 10/24wh. External battery showing 9/24wh.
- thunderbolt driver is version 17. Tried to update and after restart it still shows version 17. Not sure why
8 h, 9 m ago
The firmware needs to be ver. 20+, looks like the latest is ver. 23. The driver on the other hand, 17.40 seems to be the latest, so you're OK on that, just check the firmware on it.
9 h, 5 m ago
Thanks OP laptop I received today is in very good condition.
28th Mar
Great price for 16GB version. I think the cheapest it has ever bee. Think I paid £229 from itzoo a year ago.
Have an X270 purchased from these guys 2 years ago, apart from reprinted Spanish keyboard which is a risk with any reseller, it almost looked new and even had 6 months of Lenovo extended warranty left. The kb is fine but you can't use the backlight as it shows up gibberish. Of course, there were many who received the original English kB so it's a lottery.

Heated.
28th Mar
It's the cheapest when ram is considered but if you don't need the extra ram then you could have got an 8GB version for £198.50 delivered not that long ago.
28th Mar
How old are these machines please
28th Mar
2017 / 2018
Right around the time the first wave of Spectre/Meltdown vulnerabilities were discovered
techarp.com/gui…/7/
Of course microcode mitigation was released not long after
29th Mar
I'd love to buy one of these but have concerns over the Thunderbolt firmware update.

Will it have been updated during refurbishment?

If not, can I rely on the Lenovo Vantage app to install it, or is it necessary to download and install it ?

Many thanks.
29th Mar
1 Year repair warranty, so there's that.

I seen a review video where this was gone over. Looks like the Lenovo update app installs it. It mentioned if driver is ver 20 or above, it's good.

Given that the issue showed up after 6-12 months of use, I'm willing to bet these were upgraded a goof while ago:
windowscentral.com/lot…fix (edited)
23 h, 33 m ago
Is lenovo T480 better than latitude 5490 in a similar configuration? Any advise?
15 h, 55 m ago
Looks better [Lenovo] from the one I looked at. 5490 has 7th gen CPU, not 8th and screen is only HD, not FHD. That was just a brief look. (edited)
12 h, 13 m ago
Ugh, mine has just arrived - dead on arrival.
Screen or GPU is broken, resulting in visual artifacts / flickering.
11 h, 52 m ago
Sorry to hear that, doesn't inspire confidence in their refurbishment process.
11 h, 21 m ago
Pot luck with this company. Bought a T480 and had to return it due to screen pressure damage. Bought a T490 and it won’t even boot. Returning that too. Wouldn’t recommend unless you’re willing to take a chance.
28th Mar
Finally managed to get one! Looks like from previous threads, the important thing to do is:

- Update thunderbolt firmware
- Replace thermal compound

Anything else?
28th Mar
replacing the compound........thats me out.
29th Mar
Seller won't send to Scottish Highlands. Seller won't pay for my return flight to collect in person. Seller won't pay to relocate me and my family from Scottish Highlands. COLD
29th Mar
Surely you know someone who doesn't live in the Scottish Highlands, and can forward it on to you.
28th Mar
Nice!
28th Mar
Cheers OP. I went for the larger screened P50 i7 with 32ram/512ssd for £296... delighted!
28th Mar
link please
28th Mar
Good spec for the price and unsoldered RAM have some heat!
28th Mar
Bought. Fingers crossed on quality. Thanks op
Author
29th Mar
Same here. Bought and fingers crossed!

It would be nice if they're as described, even better if some of us get lucky and get a backlit keyboard or something.
29th Mar
Dunno if it was the thunderbolt that did my wife’s but external battery died and can’t get it to initialise at all ( only did 134 cycles )

Luckily the dual battery when it did go made it easier to fix . Gotta source a new battery though which is annoying

solid machine though for what it’s worth . Upgrade the firmwares though . Wish I knew (edited)
29th Mar
extremely easy to take apart and upgrade too. can even pry it apart with your fingernails after undoing the screws. Watched a video that highly recommended removing the heatsink on the CPU and putting new thermal compound down. I had a tube left over from a desktop build so I did this when I did the RAM upgrade. Sucks on the battery though, they're not that cheap actually. They feel very lightweight too. But I have both batteries.
29th Mar
I've got an 8th gen i5 laptop with 8gb. Except for gaming, does everything everything my desktop amd 5600 6750xt 16gb ram does. About as fast, day to day use. Im sure I'd notice a difference if I started intensive video editing or whatever but for Microsoft office, etc, absolutely fine. Runs windows 11 no problems
14 h, 37 m ago
Nice deal, even better than last week. Maybe it'll be cheaper next week? Lol
9 h, 58 m ago
Thank you very much op and the contributers extra comments above. (apart from the last two ) Have spent half a day researching this and making sure its what I need. I've just bought it with a few quid off with Nectar and TCB (edited)
2 h, 13 m ago
Just received the one I ordered as a new occasional use laptop for my father in law. It's cosmetically tidy apart from on the bottom which has a few more scuffs and scratches. Generic PSU in the box (which I haven't tried yet). According to the Lenovo website, the one I got was originally sold in Poland. Batteries (x2) don't look great but he will mainly use it plugged in and I can probably replace the batteries in time if needed

Just noticed the right mouse button on the trackpad is dead. Will have to contact the seller to get replaced or refunded. That's a shame (edited)
28th Mar
Can this connect to two monitors? I am just looking between a mac mini and an ubuntu laptop for programming.
28th Mar
From what I can see this only has a HDMI port, no other screen outputs.
It may be possible to use some kind of HDMI splitter to output to two monitors in Windows
but you need to check it will extend the Windows display , not just duplicate it.
technewstoday.com/how…rt/
28th Mar
Ace machine and great price. I recently got the t490, but had to return it. The usb c was a bit flimsy, which is also a problem on even my work t490. And also you do need to update the thunderbolt firmware as it won't immediately work with usb c monitors. I decided to return mine but still great laptop, use these as my work machine and it's amazing
28th Mar
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28th Mar
Works for me, discount only comes off at the very final checkout bit right before you pay
28th Mar
Isn't a 1.7Ghz i5 a bit underpowered for Windows 10/11?
28th Mar
That's the base speed, it can turbo up to 3.6Ghz and has no problems with Windows 11 - this behaviour is typical with ULV processors.
28th Mar
Does anyone know much it would cost to return this laptop (roughly), if I'm not happy with it
28th Mar
You should be covered by Ebay's guarantee if it's not as described. If you simply don't want it it will be approx £10 to courier.

I'd be wary of this company though, I bought an X220 laptop from them a few years ago and, although it looked superifically OK when it arrived, when I tried to use it half the keys wouldn't function. After a bit of investigating I discovered there were clumps and clumps of what appeared to be dog hair under the keys - it was pretty gross, needless to say I returned it.
28th Mar
if its anything like my organisation did you may be fortunate and get an almost new one. We had to replace all our t480s even ones only a few months old as we had to have laptops with TPM modules to comply with our new security system. We were purchasing t480 right up until November 2022 with this exact specification and it easily coped with everyday work.
Only designers and cadcam specialists required something more powerful with a dedicated graphics card.
28th Mar
The 8350U (and Intel 8th gen and later) has built in TPM with official Windows 11 support, how come that wasn't good enough?
28th Mar
Nice specs, it's still a solid system.

Dull screen. Don't buy it for media consumption though.

That's the major issue with these business machines. Good for spreadsheets, rubbish for movies.

And I know what I do more on a personal laptop.
29th Mar
Ha enjoy your "movies"
29th Mar
Got one on the last offer recently, which wasn't as good as this. Upgraded it with 64GB and a 1TB NVMe. Very happy with it, solid machine. I got lucky and got one with the second battery in it too despite the seller saying it didn't have it (seller is the same one as this) but he sold people machines with dodgy ram, but to be fair, he fixed it and sent me new RAM but I upgraded anyway afterwards.

Overall solid little laptop, and well worth the cost. Mine was pretty much like new, and 2 years old according to vantage. I'm considering adding a second disk via the WWAN M.2 socket but the prices aren't too good but I want to play with OSX too. Just for the fun of it. Solid drivers. Fast enough for everything I need. Battery life is OK, it's not going to be brand new laptop lifetime no, but I can get about 7 hours out of it with light browsing/music/video work. (edited)
29th Mar
I can't comment on the longterm reliability but it's been fine the few months I've had it, I've got the 512GB 2242 version of this running in an L480. I'm not sure if the T480 has the same restriction but the L480 needs a B+M keyed NVME as well as it being 2242 so they're pretty had to find for a decent price, this was under £30.
aliexpress.com/ite…tml (edited)
29th Mar
Would this be a good replacement for a 5th gen i7 8gb Ram Lenovo U31. Only used for admin/browsing and a bit of Football Manager?
29th Mar
3 generations newer, so yes. Football manager would run even better. Double the RAM will help you out too.
29th Mar
Has anyone received yet and can comment on condition . I’m very interested in getting one of these but not heard of the company before.
29th Mar
After looking at the comments decided to buy! Thanks.
Don't need it currently but will in few months time and at this price point I don't think I'll get anything cheaper with these specs and hopefully will last me a while
Definitely was not looking to buy a laptop today though
(edited)
29th Mar
Anyone care to comment on upgrading the panel on these, or is it economically pointless?
29th Mar
My 2p - the stock Full FHD IPS 250 nit panel that most have is fine. On a really bright day you'll need it maxed out on the brightness, that's about the only criticism.

The 768p TN one is garbage but thankfully uncommon unless your company are skinflints.
29th Mar
Picks up mobile phone to read about the team that, last night, handed Spain it's eigth defeat in 147 qualifying games for European Championships and World Cups. Now I have a laptop coming my way. And I've still to read about the game. If you love football then watch all of this match - it was absolutely sensational. I initially refused to pay Viaplay £14.99 but when I read that Scotland had scored after 6 minutes, I ran to the utility cupboard, grabbed two cans of beer, ran to the lounge with my mobile phone, purchased the game, and watched it from the very beginning. Such a great decision to have done so, let's hope buying this laptop proves to be a similarly good decision.
29th Mar
This not going to beat Spain pal