Previous thread: 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 - best price/performance ultra portable >T440p/540p; W540/1 - Last Thinkpads with socketed processors, easily replaceable trackpad (W541 doesn't need trackpad replacement)
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 niggers swiping their fingers all over a touchpad >Excellent GNU/Linux & *BSD support
I bought a used Thinkpad T420 and I'd be perfectly satisfied if the screen wasn't fucking atrocious. It's apparently not so easy to find a better screen so I resorted to calibrating the screen I have now (B140RW02) to at least let my eyes rest a bit. I use a dual boot Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS/Windows 7 Pro and the picture quality on Ubuntu is significantly better than on Windows 7. Can anybody explain why? Is Ubuntu somehow closer to the hardware with no shit Intel software messing things up? Is color accuracy simply better on Ubuntu? What makes Ubuntu so much better in this respect?
Colton Campbell
ay lads I just bought myself a t440s with 12gb ram and a 512gb ssd, did I do good? Going to use it for essays and note taking at college and babby tier gaming.
Joseph Williams
I have a T420 and i want to upgrade the screen to an IPS fullhd. Can anyone telle me what screen is the best for the t420? Also, where can i buy the converter? ebay?
Josiah Taylor
It's a decent portable laptop, but the trackpad is hot garbage, you should change it asap or use a usb mouse
Benjamin Barnes
I'm planning on swapping it out for a t450 trackpad as soon as it gets delivered. Aside from that I'm pretty sure it's good to go. Already has the 1080p ips display.
Angel Gutierrez
Did a board swap yesterday for a dGPU board. Now I can go back to GNU/Linux.
About 320 usd in my country. Consumer electronics fetch a higher pricer over here, I'm in Australia. Still, it's a better machine for the price than everything else on the market. I'm really rather pleased.
You can get 1TB SSDs for under a 100 USD when they are on sale, these days. The era of expensive NAND is over.
Jaxon Collins
Traditional because of the layout.
Jaxson Long
In all honesty? Both are fine. If you used the traditional one, the chicken will take some time to get used to, mostly because shortcuts, but typing is totally fine.
i am still waiting for my t440p. ive been edging for weeks. i'm so ready, Jow Forums.
Nathan King
I don't want to boast but it's pretty nice.
It will be worth the wait.
Zachary Wood
AUO panel? The T440p is pretty high on my wishlist, but the EU prices are kinda fucked, and im not going on ebay. Need to resell more old thinkpads I guess ;)
Aaron Ross
they say if you turn off hybrid mode on your thinkpad it can get bricked
Oliver Edwards
traditional since it's lighter and has nicer keys, but the chiclet is totally fine on the t440p
Meanwhile i want to get rid of my FHD AUO T440p with modded touchpad and quad core but no one buys it ;-;
Nolan Lewis
How many spondulis, user?
Hudson Rivera
>AUO panel? That's right famalam.
>The T440p is pretty high on my wishlist, but the EU prices are kinda fucked I don't really know, I'm in EU, I remember checking last year and the prices were ridiculous, like €800, but now they seem to be pretty reasonable, I got this one for €300, with the iGPU-only board and 10% wear battery, still had all the stickers and zero wear anywhere. Good luck flipping ThinkPads!
Thomas Gutierrez
wouldnt mind it if the price is right there is one decent i7 FHD one for 380eur. will prob try to jew down to 350ish.
Gabriel Peterson
>there is one decent i7 FHD one for 380eur. will prob try to jew down to 350ish. Good luck, I got mine from a reseller that has a retail shop, I had them remove the SSD and optical drive to get the price down since I already had one and replaced the optical drive with a second one, otherwise it would have been around 350 too.
Connor Cox
I've been selling it for 150k monopoly monies (~$220) but i live in third worldville so there aren't many people interested in thinkpads over here.
Leo Diaz
god damn thats a great price :/ comes with 2 SSDs too
Christopher Wright
That's a great price indeed!
Thomas Nguyen
My dankpad is hot as hell, feels like it's going to catch on fire. I can feel the heat coming up through the keyboard as I type this.
John Russell
>Window Maker MY NIGGER
Kayden Wilson
just curious, what currency is monopoly monies?
Angel Nguyen
>monopoly monies we normally call US Dollar as "monopoly monies"...
Daniel Allen
Nvidia, I'd recommend to have 2 distros in your hard drive with partitions. Because the only way you can have good performance is if you use only the Nvidia card, you blacklist nouveau and install the Nvidia driver from the Nvidia page. That's if you need to run graphics. On the other hand if you're just gonna do cuda/opencl processing, you can run everything on the CPU integrated graphics and still run tasks with cuda/opencl when you need to. The first option drains battery a lot, but is not on/off switch because you need to unload the driver from the kernel if I remember correctly??? But I don't know, I think I could make a solution in a single distro; Install the driver normally blacklisting nouveau, when you don't need it, stop the graphical session on tty and turn off the GPU, I don't know what's the command to do that actually, but there has to be one to unload it I guess, then you restart the graphical session and it should load with the integrated graphics card. I guess there may even be a gnome extension to do this from the system tray without restarting the whole graphical session. On systemd based systems is service graphical stop/start or something like that from tty. Gnome reloads running "r" from the alt+f2 command prompt, so maybe you could use that after selecting a different graphic card.
Easton Brooks
That's pretty outdated info, it works just like on Windows now on Linux too. You can switch it per-application and have it off the rest of the time. All in all I'd say go with a Ryzen ThinkPad anyways if you can afford it.
Angel Howard
wtf? the Nvidia driver from the Nvidia page works like Optimus? tell me more faggot, I don't believe you
Chase Stewart
Fortunately for me I like the chiclet ones I always thought they looked nice and bought some laptop a long time ago just because it had one
Bumblebee. I think there was a second one too called PRIME, but I think you had to log in and out to switch them while Bumblebee is application specific. Even the second one is far less bothersome than having two Linux installations.
You can also do Qemu+KVM with GPU passthrough and Looking Glass on Optimus laptops.
Bentley Harris
thanks for hyping me for nothing retard, bumblebee is dead and doesn't work now
Kevin Jones
Works fine for me. There is a fix for any problem you might encounter on several wikis. If you can't get it running, try the other one.
Sebastian Thomas
Guys I'm thinking of buying into the thinkpad meme, my current laptop is 16.5 inch which is a bit too big to carry around campus comfortably (and makes me insecure around the tiny macfags) the stuff i'd be doing would be security and programming related is it a bad idea to get a second hand one?
Carson White
x230 is small and cheap, replace the keyboard if you want
Jace Rogers
I always permanently disable that shit.
Blake Thompson
Go ahead. I got a refurbished x230t for college and it works great.
Julian Jenkins
Where? South America?
Dominic Richardson
fellas genuine question, where abouts do you look to purchase used thinkpads in the US? craigslist?
bit of a long-shot, but does anyone have the original X60 32-bit bios rom file? or can you dump one for me? Google searches are coming up empty.
I put libreboot on mine a few years ago and it's just been sitting unused ever since (X230 is my useful laptop). I can't think of anything to do with it except put an old Windows 9x on it, for MSDOS games and nostalgia. But with libreboot, it seems impossible to boot any non-unix boot configuration. And with Coreboot I can't seem to figure out getting a usable VGA rom compiled.
I really have no use for a RMS approved machine and feel silly for falling for the dumb meme.
Michael Myers
So you're /u/bobsnvagensnbbbba?
Jacob Bell
you are a degenerate and a loser
Angel Taylor
yes
Nolan Cooper
You really like cartoon porn and bashing liberals on Christian subreddits... Does your lord and saviour approve of your toon boobs?
Jack Reyes
Which country? Thinkpads are relatively popular in mine.
