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
come on, this is the 15th time this pic has been in the OP, we can do better because /tpg/ is a fairly slow general and people are hesitant to make new threads... although, there was one time a few weeks ago when there were three or four threads going at the same time (pic related)
because you can get banned for making duplicate threads, and also because not many people care.. last thread got to 345 before someone made a new one.. if I were to estimate, I think I personally have made about half of the /tpg/ OPs in the last few months
>because you can get banned for making duplicate threads but the pic is different does Jow Forums only check the text?
Ian Clark
yeah, Jow Forums only checks text.
Jaxson Walker
I only make a new thread if the old one reaches page 7 or 8 or so and there isn't another up. quick search of tpg in the catalog before hitting post is all it takes. >come on I chose at random from my chinkpad folder and don't save any pics from here that have anime dolls or pets as the actual focus of the image. Lain/Gentoopad from last thread probably should have been OP admittedly. I usually use old TP ads on the rare occasion I make a new thread.
Daniel Thompson
Total brainlet here please help me out
Is 8gb ram and i5-7200U Processor fine to last for +4/5 years? or should I try to upgrade it to 16gb ram post haste?
Justin Roberts
Is it me or can you fix a thinkpad with anything? The design is so simple that you can fix it with whatever you have lying around. >lost the rubber from the inside of the trackpoint's RMB >replaced it with part of an old nerf dart as long as you use a good linux distro and take care of your ThinkPad then it will last you until 2038 (if the y2k 2: electric boogaloo fearmongering is correct)
Mason Morris
just bought a t440s for $250
>8GB RAM 256GB SSD i7 2.3GHz 1080P isp
how'd i do?
Chase Cruz
next gen i5-8250u is so vastly superior i feel like 7200u users got cucked hard
Tyler Morris
the person was sorta correct to point you to /osg/, some were made by a shop that two other guys n me run, some were made by a friend who isn't from /osg/ or associated with it and right-most and top-most are gifts from friends
Angel Richardson
breddy gud desu. >t. bought a T410 for $20
Ayden Price
nioce, good shit
Easton Howard
>Lain/Gentoopad from last thread probably should have been OP admittedly. any of these would've been good:
Sebastian Hill
yeah, using it right now. My old laptop was some shitass L520 that had more problems than my ex. I sperg'd out defending it on the last tpg but now i know they were right all along. now i'm using a T410 and i am more comfy than ever.
Cooper Martin
good upgrade
i sold my t450s for $300 it had 12gb but i5 core i think once i get a new trackpad the t440s will be even better bc i7
Hudson Moore
what's wrong with the trackpad?
Blake White
it's infamous for being garbage, choppy and buggy and has no buttons
Landon Wilson
the T440 trackpad doesn't have physical buttons.
Samuel Jenkins
oh shit really? God I hate buttonless trackpads. My old ASUS laptop had no buttons and I constantly misclicked, RMB never worked and I eventually gave up and got a ThinkPad
Michael Bell
what's a good alternative? i just bought a t440s and the lack of buttons on a trackpad is really killing... link me up scotty
Eli Gomez
Should I get multitouch screen? I really don't want it but found a good deal I'm curious whether it would cause a trouble etc in the long run
What would be the cheapest ThinkPad that will run indie games and web browsing perectly. I'm in the UK if that maters.
Robert Taylor
niggerlicious
Austin Martinez
Depends on the indie games but probably something for the xx20 generation or maybe the xx10
Kayden Miller
What's the best yoga I can get for less than $200? don't want something powerful, just something to make my frens go wow user cool pc and to play around with distros
I have also done this on my X240, but I had to trim a lot of plastic and glue it in. No ragrets though.
Liam Scott
I sperged at you as well, sperg happens. You got a great deal on that T410, enjoy it.
Lucas Butler
I'm using an FHD panel on my X240 right now, it's worth it for sure.
Colton Gray
About to buy a 4GB DDR3 1333MHz stick for my T420 from the chinks. 21 buckw shipped, from 'Samsung', cheaper option is Kllisre which looks even more shady.
Christian Gonzalez
i'm using unbranded "binful" shits it just works, who gives a shit about jewish brand tricks
Asher Miller
I bought a Chinese SSD with a brand name I can't even pronounce and it turned out to be awesome. Good luck.
Brody Miller
Outrageous
Xavier Jenkins
I've been using my chink kingdian ssd since 2016 or so good shit and dirt cheap at that time
Kayden Howard
Any x60/x61 users around that did the screen conversion to HV121P01-101? Chink screens are my only option, and I wanted to know if its worth doing the conversion (i think ill add an led backlight too).
Wyatt Evans
I'll get the meme name one. It's fucking 15 bucks.
Anthony Richardson
faster startup no botnet free open source
Kevin Collins
what res is that screen? is that panel easy to get?
Jonathan Barnes
My yellow power jack is broken on my t430s... Is this what I need to repair it? It is just the yellow port.
Its 1400x1050, its on aliexpress and co Ok, my only concern is trimming parts of the panel since I have no tools and stuff, how did you do it - any difficulties? I have an ips x60 and the screen doesnt compare to the turd that is the x61 screen.
Adam Reyes
Fuck I wish I had that numpad.
Kayden Thompson
>how did you do it I didn't, SXGA+ was an option for the X61t.
Just lost an auction for an x230 normal speced. So now my question is whether an x230 with i7, 180 GB SSD, 8GB of RAM and a mysterium panel is worth it for 260 bucks. It looks to be in good shape. Thoughts?
Cooper Price
>tfw X140e hasn't come yet Before you criticize, it's just for typing stuff on the go.
>cunt with 80% importation fee >there's an ad in a national website that's selling a x200 with 4gb ram, 250gb hdd, flawless chassis and gud battery for fukken $80 (which are like $150+ here without the same quality) >ask seller to announce it on a website that gives buy & seller warranty >he does it >someone buys it before me Please kill me and bury me with my blog posting.
Jaxon Nguyen
Someone please sell me a good condition x60s. I need this exact ThinkPad and I've been looking for a couple months now but there's nothing but a broken one on eBay...
Asher Walker
Welcome to my world.
Andrew Diaz
About how much should I pay for an 100Wh battery for a W540? Should I buy refurbished ones? I can get refurbished batteries on eBay for ~$30 CAD.
Leo Wilson
How good is the IBM Space Saver II lads?
Parker Garcia
>80% importation fee mamma mia, where is this? Just buy a shite condition one, replace all plastics + keyboard.
Joseph Johnson
Based Brazil.
David Murphy
Can someone give me a step by step guide on how to libreboot my T400? I've been meaning to do it for a very long time and my brainlet ass is gonna go nowhere without a step by step guide.
Angel Cook
Still trying to get this keyboard into my 430. About three days of off/on sanding and it just barely fits. Need I keep going? Should I force it in? What do?
What's a cheap hard drive that won't break for my t400
Gavin Bell
I have found an offer of T450s in a good condution, with replaced batteries, ips fhd for 350euros. The only issue is the crack on one side, is there a way to fix it? The offerer says it does not have any impact on the use, but it looks bad
If that is the pic then the problem seems to be with either the bottom cover or possibly the keyboard bezel, both are around $30 on ebay. Though the bottom covers seem to be knockoff plastic ones so if you want a OEM one you'll have to pay up a lot more.
Doesn't look like it'd really affect usability but you might not be able to screw in a VGA cable.
Yes. There was just one on eBay for sale with the swap already done. Ive never done it though. I prefer the 1440x900 panel cuz more pixels is more important to me
Isaiah Bell
After some grinding I finally did it and the keyboard looks and feels hella nice. Yay
