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Best Lenovo laptops
The top 12 of 59 non-discontinued Lenovo models we track, ranked by our hand-scored average across the six categories. Not by what Lenovo pushes, and not by commission.
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- Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x 14 Gen 9 (Snapdragon X Elite)
A 14.5 inch 3K 90Hz OLED and roughly 16 real hours of battery make this one of the best Windows-on-Arm ultrabooks, but on Linux it is work-in-progress with no speakers or webcam and firmware you must pull off Windows first.
€ 1.115 8.0/10 Linux not supported - Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 Aura Edition
982 grams, the best keyboard here and a strong Linux story on a current kernel, with two catches: the IPU7 webcam needs kernel 6.13+ and a firmware bug can pin the CPU at 400 MHz.
€ 2.700 7.8/10 Linux, minor tweaks - Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition (2026)
A 1.19 kg 13.9 mm Panther Lake ultrabook with a 2.8K 120 Hz OLED at 750 nits, 32 GB LPDDR5X-9600 and a 75 Wh battery, from 1449 dollars.
€ 1.348 7.7/10 Linux unverified - Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Gen 6 (Snapdragon X Elite)
Of every Snapdragon X laptop, this is the one Canonical and Lenovo work hardest on, with Ubuntu certification, upstream EC work and roughly 18 to 21 hours of real Windows battery in a ThinkPad chassis, but the FHD+ panel is plain and the X Elite SKU is expensive next to the AMD T14s.
€ 1.899 7.7/10 Linux not supported - Lenovo ThinkPad X13 Gen 4 (AMD)
A 1.25 kg 13-inch ThinkPad with a Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U, Radeon 780M and Ubuntu certification, around 650 dollars refurbished.
€ 700 7.5/10 Linux out of box - Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition (2024)
Lunar Lake means long battery and a quiet chassis, but it also means you need kernel 6.11 before Linux behaves.
€ 1.499 7.5/10 Linux, minor tweaks - Lenovo ThinkPad T14 Gen 5 (AMD)
The lowest-friction mainstream Linux pick here: the AMD webcam avoids the Intel IPU6 trap, leaving only a Wi-Fi iwd line and an s2idle kernel param on some units.
€ 1.699 7.5/10 Linux out of box - Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Gen 6 (AMD Ryzen AI 7 PRO 350)
The AMD T14s Gen 6 is the low-friction business Linux pick: UVC webcam dodges the Intel IPU6 mess, leaving a speaker EQ and an s2idle param on some units.
€ 1.749 7.5/10 Linux out of box - Lenovo Yoga 9i 2-in-1 Aura Edition Gen 11 (2026)
A 1.29 kg 14-inch convertible with a 2.8K 120 Hz OLED at 1100 nits HDR, Panther Lake Core Ultra 7 355, 32 GB soldered LPDDR5X and a 70 Wh battery, from 1949 dollars.
€ 1.799 7.5/10 Linux unverified - Lenovo Legion Pro 7i Gen 9 (16IRX9, 2024)
A 2.61 kg RTX 4090 running the full 175W with slotted RAM and a 99.99 Wh battery, the strongest performance-per-dollar of the 4090 machines here.
€ 3.499 7.5/10 Linux, minor tweaks - Lenovo ThinkPad T14 Gen 3 (Intel)
A 1.49 kg 14-inch business ThinkPad with a SO-DIMM slot to 48 GB and a 400 nit 1200p panel, around 450 dollars refurbished.
€ 480 7.3/10 Linux out of box - Lenovo Chromebook Plus 14 (MediaTek Kompanio Ultra, 2025)
The first Arm Chromebook Plus with a real OLED-grade panel and 14-hour battery for 649 dollars, but it is ChromeOS only.
€ 699 7.3/10 Linux not supported
