Lenovo ThinkPad P14s
Hacker ApprovedShares rank 37 of 63 laptops by recommenders
Owners praise it as a powerful, compact machine that works well with Linux, though some report display and sleep driver problems and a plastic build.
Owners praise it as a powerful, compact machine that works well with Linux, though some report display and sleep driver problems and a plastic build.
14 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 10
- criticize it
- 4
- approval share
- 71%
Recommended in 7 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Owned for 2 years
Median of the 4 owners who said how long they have had it.
Each square is one year.
Why it carries the badge
- 10 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 2.5 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 7 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Works well with Linux
“still powerful enough for most things, esp now that I'm on linux”
Comment from 19 May 2026 in “ThinkPad: From IBM's Bento Box to Lenovo's AI Workstations” “I'm happy with my P14s (AMD, Gen6) (running Linux, obviously).”
Comment from 4 Jun 2026 in “MacBook Neo Is So Popular That Apple Doubled Production” “Both AMD p16 and p14 are amazing NixOS machines.”
Comment from 4 Mar 2026 in “Lenovo's New ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability” - Comment from 26 Dec 2025 in “Asahi Linux with Sway on the MacBook Air M2”
- Comment from 9 Feb 2026 in “More Mac malware from Google search”
Powerful enough for most work
“still powerful enough for most things, esp now that I'm on linux”
Comment from 19 May 2026 in “ThinkPad: From IBM's Bento Box to Lenovo's AI Workstations” “I'm so glad I got a p14s with 64 GB of RAM in the fall”
Comment from 14 Mar 2026 in “Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock” “with the 255H CPU and iGPU and a decent screen”
Comment from 4 Dec 2025 in “RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung” Happy as a daily driver
“I'm using a P14s Gen 6 AMD as my daily driver and it is just a fabulous little machine”
Comment from 11 Dec 2025 in “Bikeshedding, or why I want to build a laptop” “I'm happy with my P14s (AMD, Gen6) (running Linux, obviously).”
Comment from 4 Jun 2026 in “MacBook Neo Is So Popular That Apple Doubled Production”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Sleep and display driver problems
“But it doesn't support S3 (suspend to ram), only s0ix:”
Comment from 5 Mar 2026 in “Apple introduces the new MacBook Air with M5” “The driver quality (mainly around display and sleep/resume features) has been terrible on my now 2 year old AMD powered Lenovo P14S.”
Comment from 2 Dec 2025 in “Ask HN: Quality of recent gens of Dell/Lenovo laptops worse than 10 years ago?” Mostly unremarkable, nothing special
“It's OK, but nothing to write home about.”
Comment from 18 Jan 2026 in “Spirit of ThinkPad” “the T480 and P14s are meh”
Comment from 24 Mar 2026 in “Microsoft's "Fix" for Windows 11: Flowers After the Beating” Plastic build, durability concerns
“it is better in every aspect, except one disc port and overall durability”
Comment from 1 Dec 2025 in “X210Ai is a new motherboard to upgrade ThinkPad X201/200” “a flimsy, plastic (not magnesium like the Intel units), disappointing piece of shit with frequent (but known) GPU crash issues”
Comment from 24 Dec 2025 in “I'm returning my Framework 16”
Other laptops people recommend
The four most recommended other laptops, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apple MacBook Pro | 928 | 688 | 57% | 13 | 5 yrs248 owners | — |
| Apple MacBook Neo | 707 | 355 | 66% | 9 | 1 mo8 owners | — |
| MacBook Air | 633 | 209 | 75% | 12 | 5 yrs130 owners | Approved |
| Apple MacBook | 499 | 348 | 59% | 12 | 9 yrs77 owners | — |
| Lenovo ThinkPad P14sThis page | 10 | 4 | 71% | 7 | 2 yrs4 owners | Approved |
What people said
All 18 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“My Intel laptop is pretty close to silent on Linux.”
“I'm happy with my P14s (AMD, Gen6) (running Linux, obviously).”
“still powerful enough for most things, esp now that I'm on linux”
“the T480 and P14s are meh”
“I'm so glad I got a p14s with 64 GB of RAM in the fall”
“But it doesn't support S3 (suspend to ram), only s0ix:”
“Both AMD p16 and p14 are amazing NixOS machines.”
“Everything works out of the box on Linux.”
“my P14s (gen 3) keyboard sticks up in one place”
“It's OK, but nothing to write home about.”
“a fully working computer for less than the barebones Framework, with a better display and pointing device situation”
“all my ThinkPads have been decent with Linux”
“a flimsy, plastic (not magnesium like the Intel units), disappointing piece of shit with frequent (but known) GPU crash issues”
“both of my laptops (a 2024 MBP and a ThinkPad P14s) have microphones that can filter out screeching wheels and noisy teenagers quite well”
“I'm using a P14s Gen 6 AMD as my daily driver and it is just a fabulous little machine”
“with the 255H CPU and iGPU and a decent screen”
“The driver quality (mainly around display and sleep/resume features) has been terrible on my now 2 year old AMD powered Lenovo P14S.”
“it is better in every aspect, except one disc port and overall durability”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.