Lenovo has the ThinkPad T14 Gen 7 on sale, and the headline detail for repairability watchers is that the 14-inch chassis once again accepts user-replaceable LPCAMM2 RAM. Lenovo currently lists 16 GB, 32 GB, and 64 GB LPDDR5X-8533 modules, with the 64 GB option carrying a $920 (€845) premium over the 16 GB configuration. The T14 Gen 7 and its sibling T16 Gen 5 also earned a perfect 10/10 repairability score from iFixit, the first T-series ThinkPads to reach that mark, with credit going to a tool-free battery swap, standard M.2 SSD, modular cooling with a separately replaceable fan, and individually replaceable Thunderbolt ports alongside the socketed memory.
Processor options span Intel's Core Ultra Series 2 lineup, including the Core Ultra 5 325, Core Ultra 5 335 vPro, Core Ultra 7 355, and Core Ultra 7 365 vPro. Buyers can pair the silicon with either a 60 Wh or 75 Wh battery, and four display panels are available. The standout is a 2.8K (1800p) OLED with a 30-120 Hz variable refresh rate, 500 nits of peak brightness, an anti-glare finish, and full coverage of the DCI-P3 colour space.
Pricing starts at $1,618 (€1,490) for a base build with the Core Ultra 5 325, 16 GB of RAM, 256 GB of storage, the 60 Wh battery, and a 1200p IPS panel that covers just 45 percent of NTSC. A maxed-out configuration with the Core Ultra 7 365 vPro, 64 GB of RAM, 1 TB of storage, the larger battery, and the OLED display runs over $3,700 (€3,400). Linux users will find the T14 line traditionally well supported, and Phoronix reports that a display refresh regression in the Intel Xe graphics driver affecting the T14 Gen 7 (a Panel Self Refresh handling issue introduced by a December kernel change) has already been resolved and queued for the Linux 7.0 kernel via drm-intel-fixes, so display behavior should be solid out of the box on current distributions, and the return of socketed memory makes future upgrades a matter of swapping a module rather than buying a new machine.
