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Lenovo - 2026 ThinkPad T1g Laptop with NVIDIA RTX 5070, 64GB, 2TB SSD, 16" 3.2K Tandem OLED Touchscreen with Ultra 7 265H
Average customer rating
3.7
(3 Reviews)
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Customer Reviews for Lenovo - 2026 ThinkPad T1g Laptop with NVIDIA RTX 5070, 64GB, 2TB SSD, 16" 3.2K Tandem OLED Touchscreen with Ultra 7 265H
Customer Rating
4
Excellent laptop - needs tweaks and price change
on October 5, 2026
Posted by: NyCthinkpadguy
from New York, NY
Verified Purchase:Yes
[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] Excellent laptop, but too expensive and not enough of an upgrade vs the T1g Gen 8 (which I have). The 12 GB 5070 is a nice upgrade but it comes so late, and they really needed to offer a 5070ti or 5080 version of this laptop. Also they need to offer a non matte version. The tandem oled here is nice but very grainy. The tandem oled in the yoga pro 9i (I also have) is so much better it’s crazy to not include on the T series thinkpad. Overall this is an amazing machine but realistically needs to have better components for this price.
I would recommend this to a friend!
Written by a customer while visiting lenovo.com
Posted by: tlsharkey
from San Diego, CA
Verified Purchase:Yes
[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] Pros
Loaded Fedora (Gnome) via a USB, no extra drivers needed. Even the live USB had haptic trackpad, speakers, and webcam working. Touch screen works, pen input works, thunderbolt works(!). Battery life has been great. I'm a full stack programmer and I've been getting probably 6 or 7 hours of web dev, document and data parsing automations, docker, kubernetes, etc. I haven't made any battery optimizations - this is out of the box performance. Nvidia and Intel GPUs just worked. Seriously. They hand off between each other beautifully, and it's easy to force an app to use one or the other in gnome. Keyboard is a delight. I do prefer no trackpoint buttons and the left ctrl on the outside, which this keyboard has. Steam defaults to use proton now so I didn't have to configure anything to get Elden Ring and Cyberpunk up and running.
Loaded Fedora (Gnome) via a USB, no extra drivers needed. Even the live USB had haptic trackpad, speakers, and webcam working. Touch screen works, pen input works, thunderbolt works(!). Battery life has been great. I'm a full stack programmer and I've been getting probably 6 or 7 hours of web dev, document and data parsing automations, docker, kubernetes, etc. I haven't made any battery optimizations - this is out of the box performance. Nvidia and Intel GPUs just worked. Seriously. They hand off between each other beautifully, and it's easy to force an app to use one or the other in gnome. Keyboard is a delight. I do prefer no trackpoint buttons and the left ctrl on the outside, which this keyboard has. Steam defaults to use proton now so I didn't have to configure anything to get Elden Ring and Cyberpunk up and running.
I work from coffee shops in Southern California (a lot of sun and outdoor seating). This is the best screen I have ever used outside. Battery life is still very good at full brightness. Color quality is excellent (I also do some light graphic design work).
Cons
Chromium and electron applications have a very aggressive scroll speed. This is a known and long term problem across many linux distros though. A lot of things have been a very clean user experience where stuff just works. This is a pretty jarring break from that, but I've been getting used to it.
Chromium and electron applications have a very aggressive scroll speed. This is a known and long term problem across many linux distros though. A lot of things have been a very clean user experience where stuff just works. This is a pretty jarring break from that, but I've been getting used to it.
It is a fingerprint magnet. I've seen worse, but it's still pretty bad. Personally, I don't care much.
I would have liked the entire chassis to be metal. And while I find the old school thinkpad logo charming, it does take away from the clean minimal aesthetic that is popular (and that I prefer in a laptop). Not baaaad, just a small thing.
CAD and VMs
Bambu slicer works without any driver problems (I've had problems with slicers on other linux machines).
I just starting playing around with Winboat and couldn't get Fusion360 to run as a windowed application. I may have misconfigured things though
Bottles isn't running Fusion360
Boxes still requires messing with XML configurations to get Windows 11 running. I have had trouble getting this to work, but haven't delved into it super far.
Bambu slicer works without any driver problems (I've had problems with slicers on other linux machines).
I just starting playing around with Winboat and couldn't get Fusion360 to run as a windowed application. I may have misconfigured things though
Bottles isn't running Fusion360
Boxes still requires messing with XML configurations to get Windows 11 running. I have had trouble getting this to work, but haven't delved into it super far.
TPM
I setup my TPM chip to handle encrypting data. It wasn't too bad, a few restarts. Press enter to open BIOS. Lenovo's internal documentation says Press F2 or something - you have to spam enter first.
I setup my TPM chip to handle encrypting data. It wasn't too bad, a few restarts. Press enter to open BIOS. Lenovo's internal documentation says Press F2 or something - you have to spam enter first.
Crashes, Locking, Booting
I have had a few crashes recently, but I think this is caused by Zed - a code IDE. It has so far only happened when the editor is open.
I've gotten inconsistent behavior when trying to wake the device from a bluetooth keyboard when the lid is closed. I have a feeling this is a difference between display sleep and hibernate modes.
The fingerprint reader worked out of the box. The lock screen only allows 1 failed fingerprint before requiring a password by default in Gnome, which I find annoying, but not the end of the world. This is also configurable by editing system files.
Using the IR camera requires for face unlock requires installing Howdy, which I didn't end up doing (just using fingerprint) because in the past this hasn't been a super clean processes with Windows Hello cameras exposing several "camera" devices that make it difficult to find the right device.
I have had a few crashes recently, but I think this is caused by Zed - a code IDE. It has so far only happened when the editor is open.
I've gotten inconsistent behavior when trying to wake the device from a bluetooth keyboard when the lid is closed. I have a feeling this is a difference between display sleep and hibernate modes.
The fingerprint reader worked out of the box. The lock screen only allows 1 failed fingerprint before requiring a password by default in Gnome, which I find annoying, but not the end of the world. This is also configurable by editing system files.
Using the IR camera requires for face unlock requires installing Howdy, which I didn't end up doing (just using fingerprint) because in the past this hasn't been a super clean processes with Windows Hello cameras exposing several "camera" devices that make it difficult to find the right device.
CPU Performance
I have a CPU monitor in my taskbar that I watch regularly, and I've noticed that a lot of tasks aren't being appropriately distributed across p-cores and e-cores. For instance, Blender, the 3D modelling software is largely running on a single efficiency core, causing it to freeze pretty often. I've only tinkered with gnome's power modes, and haven't tried the BIOS power modes (though I think gnome's power modes are actually adjusting the BIOS power modes).
I have a CPU monitor in my taskbar that I watch regularly, and I've noticed that a lot of tasks aren't being appropriately distributed across p-cores and e-cores. For instance, Blender, the 3D modelling software is largely running on a single efficiency core, causing it to freeze pretty often. I've only tinkered with gnome's power modes, and haven't tried the BIOS power modes (though I think gnome's power modes are actually adjusting the BIOS power modes).
Zoom sucks. All of its attempt to window manage itself fail. If you use workspaces / virtual desktops, zoom is a nightmare as it tries to hide itself and move itself between workspaces.
Video and Audio quality have been great though.
Video and Audio quality have been great though.
Overall
I've been pretty happy with the laptop and using linux as my primary OS. It's been just shy of perfect/smooth. I would like to see easier and just default TPM setup. This is largely a fedora installation media problem, but since Lenovo and Fedora have a partnership, I would like to see movement here. Additionally, creating a Windows 11 VM should be stupid easy. I think almost all of us have some sort of app we want to use that isn't on linux. Again, this is a problem for the Gnome Boxes team to just automatically detect hardware TPM and pass it through. I think this has gotten to the point where I'm willing to deal with the quirks of linux and find them favorable to the unfixable macos bugs and the dumpsterfire of windows.
I've been pretty happy with the laptop and using linux as my primary OS. It's been just shy of perfect/smooth. I would like to see easier and just default TPM setup. This is largely a fedora installation media problem, but since Lenovo and Fedora have a partnership, I would like to see movement here. Additionally, creating a Windows 11 VM should be stupid easy. I think almost all of us have some sort of app we want to use that isn't on linux. Again, this is a problem for the Gnome Boxes team to just automatically detect hardware TPM and pass it through. I think this has gotten to the point where I'm willing to deal with the quirks of linux and find them favorable to the unfixable macos bugs and the dumpsterfire of windows.
I would recommend this to a friend!
Written by a customer while visiting lenovo.com
Posted by: tassadarforaiur
Verified Purchase:Yes
[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] Performance is fine, battery life is not great, but the fake trackpoint buttons are terrible. Unfortunately, Lenovo decided that in 16" laptops, you could only get real trackpoint buttons in models with an off-center keyboard that has a numpad, and that's even worse overall.
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
Response from lenovo.comBy Thomas DSouza, Lenovo, April 10, 2026
Hello,
Thank you for taking the time to share such detailed feedback about your ThinkPad T16 Gen 8. We’re glad to hear that overall performance meets your expectations, but we understand your disappointment with the battery life and, especially, the TrackPoint button design. Your frustration with the integrated (simulated) TrackPoint buttons is completely understandable. Design trade‑offs, such as the inclusion of a numpad and keyboard layout on larger 16" models, don’t always align with every user’s workflow, and we recognize that this can significantly impact the experience.
Your feedback is valuable and is shared with our product and design teams, as it helps inform future design decisions and balance the needs of different users. If you have any questions or need assistance, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us at 1-855-253-6686.
Regards,
Thomas, Lenovo
Thank you for taking the time to share such detailed feedback about your ThinkPad T16 Gen 8. We’re glad to hear that overall performance meets your expectations, but we understand your disappointment with the battery life and, especially, the TrackPoint button design. Your frustration with the integrated (simulated) TrackPoint buttons is completely understandable. Design trade‑offs, such as the inclusion of a numpad and keyboard layout on larger 16" models, don’t always align with every user’s workflow, and we recognize that this can significantly impact the experience.
Your feedback is valuable and is shared with our product and design teams, as it helps inform future design decisions and balance the needs of different users. If you have any questions or need assistance, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us at 1-855-253-6686.
Regards,
Thomas, Lenovo
Written by a customer while visiting lenovo.com