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
Is the x270 any good? I hate the keyboards on the new ones but I need something that I can repair and upgrade 3 years later and that isn't too slow, sorry HP 2540p, you've done me well but it's just not enough
why aren't the p series talked more in here? got a p52 and I'm enjoying it quite a bit.
Jason Lopez
She looks like a girl I knew in junior high that I totally failed to score with.
Asher Perez
are there any business laptops without quadros? I just want to run VMs code and have a gpu incase i want to game. if not what should I get I'd rather not do an eGPU if I don't have to.
Elijah Ramirez
Post it~
Some have nVidia NVS, recently the X1 Extreme was outfitted with GTX graphics.
So, Jow Forums I finally ordered an X230, it will arrive shortly.
I've been using Debian flavours of Linux for over 2 years and wanted to dive deeper. I've spent the last week bricking a couple of Arch Vm's and managed to compile this installation guide for myself.
If any of you have experience with installing Arch on Thinkpads from the era, do you have any suggestions for my procedure?
whats a durable and cheap thinkpad model? im mostly going to be using it for school it should have a vga port as well as an hdmi port. strong enough to run things like photoshop and mat-lab
To piggyback off this user, am I an idiot if I just order a battery straight from Lenovo and pay the extra $20 compared to wading through pages of online listings of chinkshit and faked stickers?
Juan Myers
sorry to dissapoint user but I have an official battery (I guess it's the one my laptop came with) however I can confirm my experience with an after market T400 (or T60 can't remember) battery.
It was GHU or some shit and it wasn't to bad but I did have to charge fairly often which was annoying. If you plan on actually being on battery get a 9 cell or 6 cells granted I wouldn't trust a battery that's less than say 30 bucks.
Xavier Roberts
chink batteries aren't that bad i get like 4 hours from my chink 9 cell think i payed £15
virtualization software uses a crapton of RAM. In my computer science class most of what we did was in VMware
John Ross
when is somebody gonna shop sicp into this?
Xavier Cooper
>4 hours is this a joke
Jace Cook
I'm no expert but here's a few things that stick out to me, I'm sure someone will come along and rightfully call me a retarded faggot. Werks on my X230 though.
>/ = 100G Too big, 20-30G is perfectly fine if not too much.
>8G swap Too big, go with something like 2G if you really need swap
also mount /dev/sda2 or whatever you use for /home to /mnt/home
It also seems you're German so 'loadkeys de' should get you a German keyboard layout if you need it.
I did some stuff in a slightly different order but if what you have there works fine then it works I guess.
After the Huawei revelations I'm thinking of ditching my Thinkpad, anyone doing the same? At last as my main machine, I'm thinking of getting a Dell E7470
Brody Howard
The X1 Extreme, unlike the P1 and X1 Carbon, is a hyped consumer grade device just like the E series.
Prove me wrong. You can't
Noah Adams
I got a T420i from a family member but this this was horribly greasy and needed a good wash. I removed the keyboard and rinsed it with 91% Isopropyl and let it dry for two days. Now only the mouse buttons, track-point and on button work. It also beeps continuously after logging in on windows, no beeps on Ubuntu though.
>not your personal tech support Can't find anything helpful online, also, am willing to disassemble the keyboard to fix /investigate it if anyone has any ideas.
Best loonix for an x61t? Trying KDE Neon right now and it seems a little slow.
Dell Latitude e6420 has both. Should be powerful and cheap enough. Others might have both but that's the only one I have in front of me right now.
Ayden Myers
Mainly because they're very new and discussion is mostly around the *00-*20 ThinkPads. (.e.g X200, X220, T420, W520)
Ryan Nguyen
>I removed the keyboard and rinsed it with 91% Isopropyl and let it dry for two days. hahahaha
Jaxon Hill
just got a T440p and put debian on it. does anyone know how to make the media keys work (dim/brighten the screen, raise/lower the volume, etc...)? i used xev and they are producing the correct events, but i'm not sure what to xmodmap them to.
Elijah Thompson
answered part of my own question. i can xmodmap the key events to a script that runs an xrandr command to dim and brighten the monitor. now, just gotta figure out the sound part... i have no idea how to do that.
Christopher Butler
Depends what DE you're running. Some will take care of the special keys all on their own. Check out thinkwiki if you're using i3wm or something.
Noah White
should i get a T440?
John Peterson
Help me decide /tpg/
W530: >i7 3720QM >FHD LCD >Quadro K1000M >9 cell bat. >180 SSD >8GB RAM >palmrest and lid in good condition
For $300
BUT... It has wrecked bottom chassis ($53 for used one), some white spots and keyboard scratches on LCD (that doesn't bother me that much, but for your info new LCD costs around $72)
Worth it? It's the cheapest working W530 in my country.
This is why you buy the Apple Macbook Pro with Retina Display.
Xavier Cooper
wut my X61t lasts 4
Samuel Adams
>windows 10 I found the problem.
Benjamin Collins
im on debian actually
Adam Wright
On linux the trackpoint seems difficult to use. Should I just get used to it, or does it require configuring the sensitivity?
Parker Baker
How much should I spend on a T440s with an i5/7, Full HD IPS (Non-touch) and 8 Gigs of RAM? Is a T450s acceptable aswell?
Evan James
answering part of my question again. xrandr brightness doesn't change the lamp brightness value. so, i ended up creating a setuid script that echos the brightness value to /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness works like a charm. still need to figure out sound volume though.
Brandon Cook
T61 for x60/x60s Is this a reasonable trade? Want something smol to libreboot for some amusement. T61 is T9300/4GB/32GB SSD.
Ryder Turner
considering raw prices i think its a decent trade
but then again, libreboot is bad
Kayden Nguyen
why does everyone say libreboot is bad? i honestly don't understand why it's bad
I'd do it only because X series are small and comfy as fug. don't give a shit about the trannyboot meme
Josiah Hughes
really what is retina display ?
Christopher Wilson
removes the backdoor called intel management engine
Jason Young
completely?
Justin James
Just a normal display. It has good brightness and colors
Nathaniel Turner
100% free as in freedom bios with all the incel ME stuff removed. I'm not a freetard but if you are one then it's the closest you can get to a fully FOSS laptop for now.
Gabriel Brooks
how come thinkpads dont have retina
Connor Clark
yep, it's 100% free as in freedom
Jason Rivera
Shill
Landon White
Imagine being so poor you take a job making posts like this on Jow Forums
Samuel Carter
can i run blender, krita, lmms on it? will those packages conflict
Cameron Ross
sure as long as you don't have hardware bottlenecks because >10 year old laptops
