/tpg/ - ThinkPad General

Previous thread: If you're looking for purchase advice, state your budget and requirements (e.g. size and performance).
Don't buy anything OTHER THAN IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad T, X, and W/P Series if you want the Real Business Experience™

>Other business laptops are welcome in /tpg/ (Dell Latitude/Precision, HP EliteBook/ZBook).

Libreboot-compatible models:
>T60 (check lcd), X60(s; t); X200(s; t), T400(s)/500; W500.
Modern models:
>X220/X230 - 12", 768p, cheap and light
>T420/T430 - 14", 900p, widely available, socketed CPU, both Coreboot-compatible (Ivy Bridge CPU support on T420); Quad Core Compatible, Old keyboard swap on *30 series
>T520/530; W520/530 - 15", 1080p, DTR, 32GB RAM on quadcore models, USB 3.0
>T440p/540p; W540/1 - Last Thinkpads with socketed processors, easily replaceable trackpad (W541 doesn't need trackpad replacement)
>P-Series - 15'' + 17'', 4K display, up to 64GB of RAM, Xeon CPU option. Expensive.

Why ThinkPad?
>Used machines are plentiful and cheap
>Excellent keyboards - tactile feel and quiet
>Great durability: magnesium rollcage for structural integrity, with high quality plastic body panels
>Utilitarian design: e.g. indicator LEDs, 7 row keyboard layout on older models
>Docking stations that easily turns your laptop into a desktop
>Easy to repair (most models), upgrade & maintain thanks to readily available service manuals for every model, spare parts easy & cheap to obtain
>The best TrackPoint™, great for those who type a lot or hate swiping their fingers all over a touchpad
>Excellent GNU/Linux & *BSD support

>Hardware Maintenance Manuals (HMM's) and Windows drivers for legacy devices:
download.lenovo.com/eol
>Used laptop guides by xsauc:
dankpads.com
>ThinkWiki - Info on ThinkPads & running GNU/Linux on them:
thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkWiki
>BIOS logo booru:
biosimage.booru.org

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I'm planning to buy a W530 motherboard and fit that in my T530, then buy 4x8gb ram sticks for that.
Is 32gb overkill? Anything today that needs that much? All I'll be doing is lots of photo editing and some light 1080p videos, I thought this much RAM will make it future-proof for the next decade.

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Say I have $100 for a model that I can take into the field and use a card reader with a wireless hotspot to check email and do basic word processing and watch videos (nothing fancy, just med quality YouTube and lectures)
Would this be worth it?

I’d also look to run Linux on it so I could work on my networking skills which is the primary reason to get one. Must be able to run a virtual machine of win 7 and 8.
In this case I’d always have access to wifi

Complete nub, I’ve only just begun to look at the magic behind the curtain that is computers

So memes aside, how bad are the new Thinkpad? I'm waiting for the A485 to launch with the Ryzen R5-2700U in it. I'll probably spec out the laptop as much as I can and buy it. For reference, the A series Thinkpad are pretty much the T470/X470 shells with AMD guts. Are their keyboards that bad? Overall quality? I'm still on a T420 for reference.

Honestly you'd be fine with just 16GB of RAM. Unless you're doing some seriously intensive editing. And if you're sticking with the 16GB, you wouldn't have to get the W530 board for it's 4x RAM slots. Just keep your T530, get an i7-3630qm 4c8t CPU, and drop it in.

what the hell happen to perk offer? I wanted to but P72 when it come out with 40% discount but now they shut the door.

Also I got one year accidental 1 day on site service contract.how to i extend to 3 years because I found out that nowadays think pad is make so fragile QA so bad it breaks every month.

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any desktop replacement with a good screen so i dont rip my eyes out? :^)
none of that modern shit please

trying to find good one when ive been using desktop all my life feels confusing, feels like i can always make a better choice

been thinking about x220/30

anything with an IPS screen

It came in and works great. Didn't come with a pen so I dug out my old XT2 but the pen caddy's fucked, the pen just slips out if I turn the laptop sideways.

Which $100-$150 business laptop has the overall best screen?