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).
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 >T440s - don't ever buy this meme >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
Anons with the x60/61 and t60/61, are they still useable for offline stuff?
Aiden Taylor
This is /tpg/ they will tell you literally any laptop is still usable because muh text processing machine.
Chase Scott
they are still usable for online stuff too if you download a light weight or text based browser
Benjamin Gomez
not any laptop, most 2009 laptops are crap for today usage, but thinkpads are bussiness laptops, they are more powerful than the average laptop, also more durable, the only bad thing is the heat and low battery life.
Nathan Cook
hello user, got an x230 recently, i just ordered an 250gb msata, if i take out the wwan card i wont have any more wifi capabilities or is it just the lte/4g mobile modem card? isnt the wifi module elsewhere?
Christopher Clark
I'm the X61 and T61 are fine, but I'm not about the others. I have an upgraded CPU on my T60 and I can't watch 720p on YouTube without it suffering a slow death. Granted, Youtube is a shit unoptimized site, but I also have problems with 1080p h254 videos (HorribleSubs releases, which aren't even big on bitrate ), and I'm using Linux. GRANTED, my T60 has one of those old Radeon dedicated GPUs and the drivers sucks both on Linux and on Windows, so that may be the cause. Anyway, I'm looking to buy a compatible T61 mobo to swap it. T61 mobos have a lot of interesting hacks and mods, so I may really do that in the near future.
>Offline stuff. Absolutely, though I wouldn't count on them being the fastest nor the most reliable when it comes to CPU heavy tasks like photo editing and video editing.
Truth be told, I mainly have my T60 because I love the 4:3 aspect ratio.
My X230 won't wake up from sleep, have to hard-reset it every time. Does Jow Forums know why?
Levi White
What OS
Julian Evans
lads lads lads i have a t430,x230 and x260 i wanna get a new (old) onecba to do the keyboard swap or screen swap im either gonna get a t420 with the 1600x900 display or i might try the hp elitebook 8460P are the elitebooks certified comfy or should i just get the t420 >yes i know i dont need another thinkpad, but what i want and need are different things
David Morales
win7
Benjamin Jones
Have you tested on other operating systems? That would help narrow down if it was a hardware or software issue.
Lucas Brooks
for me it's the x201
also i just recieved my x200 and its practically brand new but unfortunately it has computrace enabled with the 1440x900 screen?
ima coreboot it instead i don't to no trannyware bios on my laptop.
i probably will. i need to have windows installed right?
Jack Cox
>>P-Series - 15'' + 17'', 4K display, up to 64GB of RAM, Xeon CPU option. Expensive. I just purchased one of these for my employer. I'm so sad it's not for me. At $3,000, I'll never own one.
Thomas Nguyen
Older models are sitting around $1000
Jeremiah Rivera
>At $3,000, I'll never own one. How low are your life expectations?
Jaxson Williams
My car costs less than $3000.
Sebastian Robinson
yes I ran the software with W7
Jonathan Taylor
I just can't justify spending that much on a laptop, when I could build a pretty amazing desktop for the same price. I really don't need a laptop, either.The P51 is a real beauty though.
Ryan Morgan
Last thread many people shilled out the x220, but this meme is what got me into wanting to buy a memepad. so what is it Jow Forums? the 220 or the 230
Looking for a TP for around 400Euro that is relatively portable with decent battery life and enough power to handle 2-3 vms. I've been looking into a T440s ( i7 4600U ) and a T420s (i5-2520M).
Processor : AMD Ryzen™ 3 PRO 2300U (2.0GHz, up to 3.40GHz Max Boost, 4MB Cache) Operating System : Windows 10 Home 64 Operating System Language : Windows 10 Home 64 English Display : 14.0" FHD (1920 x 1080) IPS multi-touch Memory : 8GB (4 + 4) DDR4 2400MHz Graphics : Integrated Radeon™ Vega 6 Graphics Top Cover Material : Standard PPS (PPSU Poly) cover Camera : 720p HD Camera with integrated microphone Keyboard : Keyboard - English Security Chip : Hardware dTPM TPM Setting : Hardware dTPM2.0 Enabled First Hard Drive : 500GB Hard Disk Drive, 7200rpm, SATA3, 2.5" Front Battery : 3 Cell Li-Ion 24Wh Rear Battery : 6 Cell Li-Ion 72Wh Cylindrical Power Cord : 65W AC Adapter (2pin) - USB Type C Wireless : 802.11AC (2 x 2) & Bluetooth 4.1 Display Panel : 14.0"FHD (1920x1080), IPS,
X1 carbon if you're feeling like you want to deal with soldered everything*, battery life nowhere near advertised, a toasty CPU along with paying a premium for them. The 1440 display is nice, though. So I guess there's that.
Gabriel Ramirez
X250 with i7-5600u and 8gb ram for $150 a good deal?
William Collins
X61 2.5ghz here, this machine is absolutely perfect, running Gentoo and compiling everything just fine. I also use it for watch 1080p videos on external monitors
I'm looking in to buying a t440p because of the FHD screen mod, but I'm finding vague information on the requirements for the mod. Some claim it's possible across the board and others say it's only possible on the 1600 by 900 models because of pins or bandwidth requirements. Can someone clear it up for me?
nice, you can fuck off back to Jow Forumseddit too user
Jackson Smith
have some internetz good sir simplu eric
Anthony Cox
I'm in the same boat, but with a t450 instead, but I don't see there being all too much difference seeing as the display skus are the same between the two?
Hunter Hall
That's it anons, I librebooted my X200 this weekend. It was a bit scary since the libreboot website is quite outdated on some aspects but it worked out in the end I'm pretty happy!
Now change your gender to get the full trannyboot experience.
Gabriel Peterson
did he died?
Ayden Barnes
I ended up replacing the WiFi card after librebooting it to an Atheros AR5BXB112/AR9380 on some user's advice. I connected the white band on the 0 channel and the black one on the one channel, it works okay even though I didn't connect any cable to the third channel (because apparently the red and blue cables are for GSM or something)
Sorry can't try it, I'm going to buy a thinkpad and found your command helpful. Perhaps something with your thinkwiki.org/wiki/Thinkpad-acpi installation went wrong?
Hunter Thomas
Which thinkpads are good for gayming? It doesn’t need to run the latest games,I’m still using a Mac Pro from 2006 most stuff I play is on Windows XP like counterstrike but would be nice to have some power under the hood
Justin Torres
It's usually preinstalled, but maybe reinstalling it could help,thank you.
Is there a way to change the keyboard caps on the x1 carbon so they don't look right out of 2004?
Ian Diaz
From what I've read, you need the higher bandwidth LVDS cable for FHD. That cable was originally used for 900p screens. So either you buy a model with a 900p screen, or you have to find the correct cable.
Lucas Young
>AND he's not a transvestite faggot but that's one of the biggest reasons why I like tripcode
Carson Brown
Wanna get a thinkpad for CS at uni, narrowed it down to two choice (pic related). Thoughts?
Hi, i need some help, not sure where to ask. My friend asked for laptop recommendations, used mostly for notes, spreadsheets, light photo editing and net browsing shit. he wants it as small and light as possible and gave me a budget that is equivalent of about 300 dolaridoos. It's supposed to be for a normalfag and light, so in a way i ruled out most thinkpads, and im not sure what to look for now. Any recommendations, used or new, would be very appreciated.
Asher Miller
Some guy on ebay has a job lot of 4x T430s. They are all varying levels of fucked. Should I buy them and do repairs/FHD mods on them all? Is there a market for modded thinkpads?
Carson Edwards
Don't update the bios
Mason Allen
x220er here, ides are fine if you move the console panels from the bottom of the screen to the right (which you should be doing regardless of resolution to maximize vertical space)
Grayson Hernandez
Can I replace the keyboard of an x230t with that of an x220. I know its possible with the x230 but idk about the x230t
