Unfortunately upgrading the screen cut battery life to about 4 hours 15 minutes (with the screen set to high brightness), so I've ordered a 72wh battery, which should bring that back up to around 8 hours. So I ordered a replacement 1920x1080 IPS screen (Innolux N140HCE-EN1 Rev.C2), followed the ifixit guide, and had a decent screen after 30 minutes of tinkering. (one quick boot into Windows to check specs before blowing it all away) It hurt to look at, the resolution was too small for anything except using the terminal, and I couldn't use it sitting next to my window unless brightness was turned up to 100% (on a cloudy day!), and even then it wasn't great.

The base model LCD screen that the T480 comes with is incredibly bad. Short of the CPU, which is a downer, but this isn't exactly an MNT Reform laptop.

I don't know if you noticed a theme in the specs, but everything in this laptop is upgradeable. WiFi/Bluetooth module: Intel® Dual Band Wireless-AC 8265 (WiFi 5), again, upgradeable.1366x768 LCD screen (upgradable to anything from a 1920x1080 screen to a 4k screen, more on that later).

16 GB RAM (upgradeable to 32GB officially, 64GB unofficially).Internal 24wh battery + external 24wh battery (6 hours 15 minutes default battery life on linux, upgradeable to 92wh total).It's not as insane of a downgrade as it sounds. I recently replaced my 2020 MacBook Air M1 with 8GB of RAM with a Lenovo Thinkpad T480.

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