What's the point of getting a Thinkpad and ricing it up when that ends up costing as much as a Macbook Pro?
What's the point of getting a Thinkpad and ricing it up when that ends up costing as much as a Macbook Pro?
Brayden Peterson
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Thomas Long
ricing up requires money?
Carter Sullivan
>implying
A thinkpad costs like 100 bucks. Add some spare parts and you may end up spending about 200 or 250 in total. A Macbook Pro would cost you at least 500 bucks second hand. And even then, they are in completely different categories. Chinkpads are for technologically-enamoured teenagers who just discovered Linux, whereas Apple products are for homosexuals and technologically-illiterate (and downright idiotic) people.
Logan Rodriguez
If it costs you that much to rice, you are clearly doing it wrong
Jacob Sullivan
An Ivy Bridge or Haswell era Latitude, Thinkpad, or ProBook can be had for $200 to $300, another $200 of parts, and it will be a shockingly good performing laptop that will easily run for another five years.
Jose Nelson
>when that ends up costing as much as a Macbook Pro?
Jeremiah Thompson
>another $200 of parts
Maybe before SSD and memory prices went up.
Kevin Gomez
Bought a T470 and upgraded it with an SSD, and 32G RAM myself, cost $1200 total, even with the insane RAM prices.
Sebastian Thomas
>ricing
>costs
how ? It cost me 0$ to rice my thinkpad, only a few days of my time. If I ever intend on changing some parts, it will be no more than 200$ to upgrade RAM, battery and perhaps keyboard
Ricing is software related you pleb
Jayden Brown
So your time is worthless?
Ethan Jackson
Jeez I wish 2 days of my time were worth 2000$
Nolan Gonzalez
Why are you comparing the price of a 10 year old Thinkpad to a new Macbook Pro?
Brandon Perry
I own a T450 - 2015 edition thinkpad and it cost me around 400$
now fuck off plebmaster - learn to use proper OS
Brody Gray
>real OS
>Windows with Chrome
>that overly blue color temperature with probably a 1366x768 TN screen
>still saving only $100 at best
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Adrian Diaz
>It's an old photo you faggot
>buying a laptop for the screen
I fucking hate stupid faggots like you. There's no shame in being a pleb who just wants to use the simple things and be stupid. But you're in no position to tell me how to do my job. I do engineering and computer science for a living and I can tell you majority of my collagues use thinkpads with similar setups. And linux is almost exclusive in higher STEM
I litrereally posted a photo of my desktop mere minutes agonow seriously learn to use proper OS fag
Logan Rivera
Yup I'm sure all those big companies like Google and Intel run Arch Linux on their laptops.
Jaxon Price
>Yup I'm sure all those big companies like Google and Intel run Arch Linux on their laptops.
they do - unix is the most widespreed OS in the world. You really are a pleb when it comes to these things
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Zachary Morris
Not even him but stop being retarded he said Arch Linux, not Unix.
Cooper Richardson
and I said that linux is almost exlcusive - I didn't specify
+ the links show google employees use Linux, I just mentioned the Unix thing as a fact. And yes I know iOS is technically Unix
Isaiah Lopez
nice brick
Wyatt Cooper
They use Linux on the desktops. The laptops are macbooks. Hardly "exclusive".
Julian Jones
>SSD
256GB Samsung 850 Pro = $150
240GB Toshiba OCZ TR200 = $70
>RAM
2x8GB DDR3 1600mhz = $140
>AC Wireless
Intel AC7260HMW = $15
Broadcom BCM4352 = $15
So, between $225 and $300
Isaac Jones
>They use Linux on the desktops
you proved my point, goodbye
also - ISS uses both thinkpads and from recently Linux. Thinkpad is the only laptop in space and Linux is the only commercial OS in space. Case closed
Josiah Johnson
I don't live in space, why should I give a fuck? Also, those are IBM Thinkpads, not the chinknovo ones you use.
Jordan Wood
they are switching to HP Zbooks
Only neckbeards use Thinkpads in anno domini 2018
Bentley Hughes
>being this stubborn
I honestly don't give a fuck. Go and spend 2000$ on a laptop with only one port, i don't care. You're a pleb and you'll always be one. I enjoy my experience with utalitarian laptops and linux and I don't have to explain myself - as neither does 90% of STEM I mentioned. Only humanitarian and art faggots use Macs, but if you feel comfortable with it - so be it. You probably won't ever understand why these things are useful
Evan Barnes
Is English your 4th language?
Thomas Turner
If this is true then why are the Apple products better?
Joseph Russell
>when left with no arguments feel free to use ad hominem
Yes, English is my 4th language - alongside with Serbian, Russian and French
Levi Barnes
>A thinkpad costs like 100 bucks
Where can you buy a used Thinkpad for $100 that's not C2D?
Easton Green
ebay if you're lucky - x220 goes for around 150$
Juan Turner
How many languages do you speak, american?
Dylan Jackson
Hey, don't be mean. I study humanities and use a thinkpad.
Hunter Hernandez
You're a partial-pleb
Grayson Foster
Idi na spavanje Thinkfagu
Gabriel Hill
Do you think there's nothing to appreciate about art and literature? Why do you think it has lasted so many years, and so many geniuses were interested in it?
Alexander Lewis
moglo bi ponekad
nah I'm just fucking with you, I like arts and literature - don't be s o y
Jack King
seems like i got triggered, sorry
Grayson Reed
So NASA guys are idiotic? Hmm...
Camden Smith
no
Logan Thompson
>buying a mac
>ever
Jonathan Sanders
KOKE
Matthew Gomez
>1365x767
Ryan Scott
The only one that matters, Abdul.
Eli Myers
>speak one language
>shit on multilinguistic people for making grammar mistakes
Daniel Roberts
It doesn't constantly overheat and thermal throttle. I'm not even joking, i7 4c8t macbook """""pros""""" literally cannot compete with 2c4t TABLET PCs.
>"After our one-hour stress test with Prime95 and FurMark (Windows), the CPU runs at only1.2 GHz, while the graphics card is also limited to just 400 MHz. Even though devices fromAsus,Acer& Co. also throttle, none of the direct rivals loses that much performance. The performance of the MacBook was much better under OS X, but the tools (Cinebench and Unigine Heaven) are not that demanding for the hardware."
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>"We had our doubts on the performance of the Surface Pro 4 Core i7 configuration considering the throttling issues found on the Surface Pro 3. Luckily, we can observe no major performance issues when under high loads. The tablet is able to maintain its maximum Turbo Boost of 3.2 GHz for both cores when under Prime95 stress and Unigine Heaven stress."
Ryder White