[NFBCS] Laptop Recommendations

[Mike Gorse]

My work laptop is a P14s Gen 4 with 64gb ram. I've had it for a bit over a 
year, and I've been happy with it, although it has an AMD Ryzen 7 Pro 
7840U. The battery life is decent on it.

-Mike

On Tue, 7 Oct 2025, Michael Forzano via NFBCS wrote:

> Hi All,
> I've been using HP Elitebook 840 laptops for work for years, and have had to replace one on average once a year due to various hardware failures (USB C ports, headphone jack, and keyboard were the most recent). I have the opportunity to
> purchase something different and wanted to ask for recommendations from fellow blind developers. I feel like I've heard good things generally about ThinkPads so was primarily looking at those though i'm open to other suggestions. The
> ThinkPad X1 Carbon seems to have good reviews across the board, but I'm concerned it won't be powerful enough for developer use cases. I use VSCode primarily and typically have up to 2 or 3 workspaces open at once, and I tend to have a
> lot of browser tabs open at any given time. Good battery life is important to me (at least 4 hours with practical usage). I also took a look into the T14S (Intel version as an Intel processor is a requirement for me) and the reviews
> from PCMag etc. were mixed.
> 
> Does anyone have personal experience with these, or other premium laptops in a similar class that they can share?
> 
> Thanks,
> Mike
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