Lenovo X1 Carbon Gen 14 Aura

tl;dr: After the long and painful goodbye to my Star Labs StarBook Mk VI AMD, I caved and did what every Linux nerd eventually does, which is buying a ThinkPad. I left Team Red and chose the X1 Carbon Gen 14 Aura Edition with Intel’s new Panther Lake Core Ultra X7 368H vPro, 32GB of (sadly soldered) RAM and the 2.8K OLED panel. It’s a sub-1kg, repairable carbon-fibre slab that runs Linux beautifully and that I can service (or get serviced) pretty much anywhere on the planet thanks to the widespread availability of parts and service points. Migration consisted of installing the latest Gentoo distribution kernel (to have all necessary modules available), pulling the SSD with my hardened Gentoo installation out of the StarBook, dropping it into the Lenovo, and booting the system. Plus one round of recompiling all packages for the new architecture, but that’s… details. Sadly there’s no Coreboot, the Intel Management Engine is silently plotting in the background, and you’re trusting a…