First Impressions: Lenovo T14s with Qualcomm Snapdragon ARM64 CPU

I'm a bit puzzled about their weird naming. "T14s Gen 6" when apparently "T14s Gen 5" was Intel based. Surely changing the entire CPU architecture deserves a new model name?

T14(s) Gen5 were also available in AMD versions, so I guess there will be T14(s)-Gen6's in Intel/AMD/Qualcomm versions

(Typing this on a T14-Gen5-AMD, under linux, which is still not really stable with the amdgpu driver crashing at least weekly)

There's the "T14s Gen 6 (AMD)", "T14s Gen 6 (Intel)", and "T14s Gen 6 (Snapdragon)".

I'm not naming them either ... just telling you how it works.

How about the Microsoft Surface Pro 9 being x86 while the Surface Pro 9 with 5g being ARM. My conspiracy theory is they did it on purpose to submarine ARM into enterprise environments

What sort of crash are you experiencing?

You should bring your dist fully up to date, and also make sure you have the latest amdgup firmware files (most likely not yet available in your dist) https://gitlab.com/kernel-firmware/linux-firmware/-/commit/9...

Actual model numbers of T14s Gen 6(AMD) and Gen 6(Snapdragon) are respectively 21M1 and 21N1, they still use IBM inherited "Machine Type-Model" system. Looks like this is now expanded into a 4-3-3 digits alphanumeric sequence like "21N1001PUS". In case anyone needed cues to tackle these confusions...

1: https://psref.lenovo.com/Product/ThinkPad/ThinkPad_T14s_Gen_...

It's still better than other manufacturers. If you look at HP's website their laptops are literally just named like 'HP 14" Laptop', without a generation/year.

Also, for Lenovo - https://psref.lenovo.com/ shows their products without marketing filler.