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I bought a top-end T460s for $220 a few years ago. Insane price for the specs, I went ahead and maxed out the memory and ran all sorts of crazy stuff on it. It was a champion Hackintosh for a few months, but I decided to leave it on Linux like the rest of my devices after a while. Really solid machine for the price.

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Fellow T460S-er! Is yours 4gb soldered or 8gb soldered? What ram did you install? I'm always worried about incompatibility with the soldered ram so I never upgraded

I had 4gb soldered, and since I'm a dork who doesn't care I went with a 16gb stick to match it. No complaints here, it runs Linux just as well as it did with 4 gigs, except now it has 15-20 more podman containers running :)

I don't know, half the other stories seem to suggest they don't play well together. What ram did you buy? Crucial?

I’ve got a T460 with 16GB. Didn’t even know about potential ram incompatibility. Just ordered some from crucial and put it in.

AFAIK the non-s model has two DIMM slots, where the s models have only one. The "incompatibility" comes from not matching the soldered stick so you can have dual-channel memory, which is pretty hit-or-miss.

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