How many of you fellas have thinkpads? Bought this refurbished unit about a month ago and the machine is great, really. Very happy with its performance, sturdiness & reliability.
Only thing I'm not too psyched about is the battery life. Probably need a new one as I'm hitting about 4 hours max on a 6cell.

Running Xubuntu 16.04, might switch distros as quite there are a few bugs in the new release but at the same time I don't wanna downgrade to 14.04.

Great sturdy computers. Just a bit heavy

@champion01 That's true. Hence why I went for the x220 model haha this thing is about 1.3kg.

I have also one. I am really happy with it.
Using an 6 cell battery and gets around 4-5 hours of time. My 4 cell is giving me the same, I think I have to change the battery

@Linux Sounds like it's old. I think a rough estimation is 1 cell per hour for a 'new' battery. Do you think a 9cell one is worth it? It makes it a bit bulkier but some say it's perfect for gripping the laptop.

Got myself a X61s for around 90 bucks last year.

My preferred desktop is OSX, but if I need to use a PC, that would be a ThinkPad.

@Communist
I am will buy a 9cell actually. I think it is worth it

Our office issues us devs Thinkpads. would prefer to have an MBP tho

I have a T440p and a MacBook Pro late 2015... Planning to sell the Mac and keep the Thinkpad, best laptop I've ever owned. May I recommend installing some Arch distro like Apricity OS? Battery life is pretty much good on that distro, I get about 7 hours.

I love my thinkpad, s431. at work I use a Dell latitude

Running a Thinkpad x250, tri-boot.
- Win10 for C#/SQL work.
- Linux Mint 17.3 (14.04) for Java/PHP work
- Ubuntu 16.04 for play.

Windows routinely pulls 10 hrs on 9 cells. Linux usually manages about 7-9 hrs but it took quite a lot of work in Mint to get anywhere near that amount of time.

@T3hbeowulf that's interesting. Why is it that you get more on Windows than on Linux? Ubuntu, debian or arch generally use very little RAM and aren't bloated with the extra processes that Windows has.

@DickDictator bless tlp man.

I am using TLP and that easily doubled the battery life on this machine from the initial install.

The primary reason for the difference seen in my previous comments is "average use" between the two OSs. Windows is not generally used for anything complex or taxing and most development there is limited to SQL Management Studio.
Linux gets everything else and is often banging multiple cores or playing video.
I suspect Linux would give equal or better battery life in a fair apples to apples test.