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).
Why ThinkPad? >Used machines are plentiful and cheap >Excellent keyboards - tactile feel and quiet >Great durability: magnesium rollcage for structural integrity, high quality plastic body panels >Utilitarian design: 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 TrackPoint™, great for those who type a lot or hate swiping their fingers all over a touchpad >Excellent GNU/Linux & *BSD support
reposting from previous thread trying to figure out how wwan works for thinkpads
Ethan Hughes
Just received this chink oem 170w adapter, it's a literal brick and works, but >my x220t immediately shuts down if I plug this into it, should I be worried? It restarts back fine >lenovo vantage says it detects a 90w adapter, is this alright too?
Where can i find the stock bios for the x230 to flash externally in the 4mb and 8mb versions? i was dicking around with coreboot and it wouldnt boot so evidently i screwed something up, but when i went back and reflashed the stock roms and it still wont boot.
Henry Wilson
Yes, way to expensive. I spent $200AUD on mine for an i7 3520M and 8GB RAM, TN display.
Aiden Parker
something with atheros
Brody Ross
... good point I should just use it for less autistic things like a spare ssd
Jayden White
whats the best thinkpad?
Caleb Walker
Is it worth it to set a charge threshold when I'm on most of the time? Or when the battery has already degraded around 30%? I have it set to 80% currently.
Logan Davis
on AC*
Connor Smith
yes, setting a threshold will keep you from losing capacity as fast. battery will be healthy for a long time
Tyler Miller
Looking at something for university Digging hard, poking at the t470/480 but realised that the t/x90 series are coming out April Seems like the best decision to wait, quad core 8th series have sealed the deal with performance, just hoping this series improves on the screen Came close at looking at the Dell XPS series just fore the screen, shame battery life /thermal management /keyboard /build quality is dogshit
>Also, best WLAN card upgrade for X200? Atheros? Bumpin for this but X201 actually. I think I want Atheros but I don't know which one. >intel card goes off every few sleep cycles and often even reboot doesn't fix it
Justin Russell
i had an intel 6300 3x3 and it didn't have any problems. but windows so ymmv
Xavier Wood
>intel 6300 I think it's actually the one I have but can't confirm now because it's out now (can't even see it with lspci). So yeah, Linux intel drivers are shit.
Logan Morales
tell intel to release documentation and source code
Cooper Brooks
Just don't use nm-applet. There are alternatives for bar icons and nmtui works just fine that one time per year you actually have to connect to a new network
Nathaniel Butler
wqhd options for xx80 thinkpads are excellent though, what's wrong with them in your opinion?
Gavin Ross
Why do you need 4 cores in a laptop?
Samuel Martinez
more so the screen to body ratio, yeah it's a huge meme but just makes sense that they should also improve on colour accuracy/brightness with the business models
Are the upgraded models sold as a a complete ThinkPads or are they just the motherboards?
Logan Adams
i just picked up an x220 off of ebay, newbie question inbound
is there supposed to be a coilwhine and they run hot? i was running arch and now manjaro (arch on my other laptop) as i wanted something quick and ready to use
42 percent battery, guy said nothing wrong with laptop, is there common issues with the front usb port on the left though? seems like it doesnt work
the laptop constantly smells like smoke as if something is cooking inside.. other then that everything seems running alright (1hr screentime is shit though)
anyone do an IPS upgrade or the FHD Mod? just wanting the cheapest ips/screen upgrade.
coreboot worthwhile? got a raspberry pi untouched thinking about giving it a crack
cheers guys
Ian Richardson
damn really? i just got an x220 with 120 gb ssd and tn display as well as what seems to be some broken components for 240 aud... whered you buy yours from?
David Cooper
and an i5 not i7
John Roberts
thermal paste. coil whine seems to happen on some of the older stuff now. there's been more people mentioning coild whine on **20's now than 4 yrs ago
Jose Williams
I wouldn't trust it, may be an unregulated power supply or worse, an unstable regulated power supply with weird peak voltages. If you have a scope I would recommend checking if that "DC" is really DC or else get a branded power supply, if your laptop is worth more than 20 bucks I would seriously buying at least a semi-reputable power supply.
Lucas Morgan
Negotiatinf with a seller on Gumtree who was a technology brainlet.
It was listed as an i5, 8GB for $250. He agrees to $200. Picked it up, perfect condition, though there's wear on the keyboard. I didn't check the specs there, and I knew it wasn't an i3 since it wasn't an X230i. Take it home, check BIOS, i7.
coil wine is due to the motor sorta drying out you can get a new fan or try to put a small bit of grease on it. The smoke smell is probably due to the laptop being owned by a smoker
>find the perfect thinkpad on eBay >ebay.com/itm/113623237310 >try to pay >don't have enough money on the account >transfer money >paypal refuses to make the payment due to """security reasons""" >have to contact them to unlock the account >do so and they don't respond for more than half a day >loose the thinkpad FUCK YOU PAYPAL
i don't like speaking with people so i though i would get away with just sending an email fucking mistake
Anthony Williams
>i don't like speaking with people thats even more of a reason to phone desu
Charles Rodriguez
..to practice?
Ayden Bailey
hai kek, the more you force yourself to do it the easier it will get
Camden Nguyen
Do you think Lenovo will ever bring back the good keyboard? Their chiclet keys aren't the worst, but they're a significant downgrade from the old ones.
Asher Russell
after T25 fiasco we can pretty safely say that no they are not coming back and chiclet isn't nearly as bad as people make it to be
Jack Torres
I've been using an x220 and a T430 daily and there's no difference with the new or old aside from layout. I prefer the new ones as page/dn are next to the arrow keys, and home/end buttons are close to homerow.
Christian Rogers
>T25 fiasco The only thing I know about the T25 is they overcharged for it. What happened?
Andrew Long
I prefer the old one because I configured the buttons next to the arrow keys so I can use them to switch tabs instead of the default backward/forward.
Owen Perry
See Get it from aliexpress or Chinkshit in general. I paid 10* the normal amount locally before buyers remorse struck. Mine desu. Very nice Even for such a shitty screen, im willing to compromise and buy a modern laptop if its identical to the t25
Oliver Morgan
I'm looking for a cheap second hand laptop and I was thinking thinkpad, my budget is about 200-250€ but I won't settle for a TN screen, I want IPS. What do I get? Better if i5
Nathan Nelson
Get a TN x230, buy an ips screen for 70 petrodollars
Cameron Perez
I'm fucking tired i don't have a stable computer and i was so ready to get this and now there is nothing like it on ebay All i can do is kill time waiting for something to happen ughh..
Ryan Rogers
if thats your pic you should install hyperbola
Gabriel Robinson
>wanted to do that >nmtui doesn't handle one way of authentication/whatever that I needed >fuck it all, delete nm and use wicd instead I still don't know if it was the right choice.
Nolan Torres
T60/T61 had IPS options I think. C2D at best though.
Blake Jenkins
If it works then it was the right choice
Lucas Hall
systemd also works for me so far I think I'll need to learn systemd better so I can think about debloating it.
Hudson Smith
Mostly just overcharging for it and giving you no choices with the hardware. The screen was also your standard 1920x1080 with absolutely no choices if you wanted a higher res or 16:10.
They marketed it as "the classic thinkpad experience" yet you had the same amount of choices as you'd get with an Apple machine and it cost about the same as an Apple machine. Ultimately the only "classic thinkpad" it had going for it was the keyboard so people were rather disappointed.
Julian Martinez
>debloating systemd I'll take oxymorons for 600, Alex.
Hello There I live in germany and wanna buy a 14" fullhd thinkpad. Should have an quad core i5 or i7 with 4 to 8gb ram. I have a budget of 170€ to 200€. Any good suggestions ? Also maybe you can tell me the difference between x and t series? Any further questions pls dont be afraid to ask. Thanks user
Elijah Martinez
stable arch with AUR access no systemdicks less work for mom cause xorg wont break as much as arch or parabola
Jonathan Jenkins
Looking to dump my mid-2017 base model macbook pro 13" for an x270 with 16gb ram and 512gb SSD. Save for the display, which I don't care that much about as I always use external monitors, is this actually an upgrade that will net me money?
I've been using an x220t for browsing and office work, it's doing fine even with an i5 2520m; you'd do fine on 4600m and that quad core will just make unnecessary heat/energy usage x are smaller for mobile/portable usage, t is larger for desktop use; what are you gonna use it for?
Evan James
Best ThinkPad to buy for around 200€? I need something durable, good for writing and for some light image modification/really casual gaming. Also, a store near me is selling a T520 with i7 2620M, nvidia NVS 4200N, 4gb RAM, 128gb Intel SSD and Full HD monitor for 320€, is that a good price?
Gavin Parker
has anyone tried storing the linux kernel onto their bios for really fast boot times and such ? I can't wait to try it when i get my thinkpad
Anthony Bennett
I'm gonna work a lot at home but sometimes at school. Battery isnt that important but display and processor/ram are
Adam Lewis
correction: Using a cut down coreboot as bios. The idea is to cut the seconds it takes to post / load grub / move the kernel to ram
Eli Gomez
Yes, grab it now, the fullhd monitor is excellent for visual work. Don't know how good the price is but the TN panel is easily one of the best made for laptops and is worth the price. Maybe negotiate a bit, don't get the 4gb ram and SSD instead supply your own after buying it.
Luke King
Yeah, but for what I need (Just a comfy laptop to do some work with it) it seems like a little bit overkill. On ebay, there are other T520 with the Full HD monitor but with i5 and without the nVidia for a lot less (Around 150€), I don't really wanna waste too much money for something like that, I already own a more than decent desktop, is the performance boost really significant?
David Brooks
Didn't know you already have a desktop, well if you just want light work get those i5 T520 then, the processor should be fine for it.
Cooper Martin
I have decided to get a more portable laptop and have decided on either an x230 or x220. Any users who can give me the rundown of pros and cons of each? Is it worth it to swap the keyboard if i get the 230 as i see so many people doing?
Noah Russell
the only arguably better part about x220 is the classic keyboard, x230 is significally better in terms of igpu performance and slightly better in just about everything else
