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
Anyone recently order a new 9-cell for T440p/T540p/W540 from Ebay? What kind of capacity did you get, and what seller did you buy from?
Michael Kelly
Sorry, user. I'm 550. I will stop posting yellowshit.jpg and start posting "lolis" when I get a solid answer to my question about the WLAN card. Currently I'm considering an Atheros QCA9880 or an Intel 9260 in an mSATA to M.2 adapter. I want 3x3 and 802.11ac, if I can.. but I heard that there are no 11ac cards with free drivers.
Eli Gonzalez
wtf is that shit and why do you keep posting it?
Parker Miller
What's the cheapest t-series or x-series that has a 1080p IPS screen (or can be upgraded to one) and can stream 1080p video? I literally don't use my laptop for anything more than web browsing, video watching and word processing. X220/230 with an aftermarket IPS screen?
Adrian Thompson
I'm getting a x200 for librebooting any advice?
Michael Hughes
No need for an .11ac if your connection isn't faster than 300mbps.
Jason Lewis
X240 or T440s don't overpay; also, use an RPi to libreboot but don't order the SOIC until after your X200 arrives and you can inspect it: X200 can have an 8-pin or a 16-pin BIOS chip and you will need a different SOIC in each case that's the result of water or coolant mixing with motor oil, and it obviously will kill an engine if ignored
Ian Powell
80 bucks is the best price/quality I found. But I think I'll get a ssd and maybe 8gb of ram
For flashing I'm going to use that soic8/16 clip with a usb eeprom programmer (ch341a).. hoping that it works.. I'm using my RPi for a server and can't take it down lol
Andrew Hernandez
Ive had this x230t for about 2 weeks now and its everything I thought it would be and more. Needs a new screen though. Is it an easy swap? How can I stuff a 4k multitouch in?
Benjamin Morgan
Can anyone help with ?
Connor Hall
install gentoo
Anthony Garcia
MT7612 if you want to have a near fully open source 2x2 ac wifi driver on linux. helpful if you do injection mode, mesh and other advanced wifi shit.
Intel 9260 (4x4 AC wifi 160MHz) if you dont care about open source shit. you need mini pcie to m.2 adapter. if you dont want to use adapters, you can get intel 8260 or 7260 on mini pcie form factor.
The auction also listed that it came with a sleeve, the sleeve wasn't pictured but I expected it to be just some shitty laptop sleeve. DEFINITELY didn't expect one specifically made for this ThinkPad with a fuckin logo on it, this thing is sick.
Good luck when some part shits the bed due to apples shitty engineering
Jace Stewart
Nah, these older ones are far more resilient and serviceable than the shitty newer designs.
Isaac Richardson
I know the older ones aren't as bad as the newer ones but how easy is it to find parts if you were to fuck up your keyboard or screen for example?
Jeremiah Nelson
How difficult is replacing the charging port on an X230? t. tech illiterate person
Ethan Hall
The W530 came out at the same time and has 32gb ram, three disk slots, high quality 1080p panel, magnesium alloy built, actually modular and definitely isn't a throttling, overheating aluminum piece of shit
Austin Sanchez
ehhh got a t430, 8gb ram, an ssd, a quad cpu, and the nicer alienware 1600x900 panel for less than these are going on ebay in stock form
Oliver Turner
Anyone know which Thinkpad pens or generic Wacom pens will work with a ThinkPad Helix 2nd gen?
Julian Johnson
That model even without an SSD and 8gb ram still costs like $500 which is absurd for a computer that old.
Joshua Moore
The spec differences you're quoting are quite minor compared to the dramatically better keyboard and touchpad. I've used a T420 for example and it doesn't compare.
I got mine (non-upgraded) for $330.
Jackson Cooper
>better keyboard and touchpad lol >$330 lol
Thomas Bell
Omg it looks like new released thinkpad.
I would pay 400$ for this unironically.
Caleb Gutierrez
>lol I haven't tried a T430 or W530. I /have/ used a T420 though, and they seem to be very similar. Are you honestly telling me you would prefer a T4{2,3}0 keyboard+touchpad over an MBP?
Josiah Foster
T440p: 4712MQ or 4900MQ & undervolt? Can anybody post temps?
Yeah I was just shopping around on eBay, kinda just watching stuff not really bidding, but when I saw that one for $170 I bought it right away
Jose Thompson
100% yes i prefer every iteration of thinkpad keyboard to any mac laptop i've used since the ibook >touchpad i don't use the touchpad
you're in the wrong thread, buddy. maybe you should consider starting your own Friendly Apple General?
Josiah Morales
What do you guys use the mini pcie slot in the x200? I have an Intel turbo memory somewhere, but I read that it really doesn't make much of a difference. I also saw that you can put a wusb module in there, is there anything I can use that with? I was also thinking about a mini pcie ssd, but I couldn't find anything that small.
Lucas Ross
I tried using that on the T420. It worked fine, but it was fairly uncomfortable and scrolling was awkward compared to using two fingers on a touchpad. It makes sense for the tiny X series but I'm not sure why it's relevant on a 13"/14" machine.
Thing is I used to be all aboard the used thinkpad hype train (I have an X200 and T400 lying around, and used to have a T420). But after seeing how well the old MBPs have held up, I don't see how it makes any sense to buy a thinkpad instead.
Tyler Cook
Don't get the Bamboo Ink
That shit won't work with it
Asher Adams
$200 (after upgrades) got me a better laptop than your $320 mbp (before upgrades)
>uncomfortable, awkward again, maybe you should find a different thread to post in since it's pretty obvious we don't draw from the same well
Julian Powell
It should be fairly easy. But you will have to disassemble the laptop. There are videos on youtube that shows how to do this but if you're still not confident then you should ask a repair shop to do it.
Jack Brown
I've literally never gotten this good of a deal on anything in my life
Everything's coming up Milhouse
Jonathan Turner
no mSATA wiring in the X200's WWAN, but USB is present; you can install native USB2 port inside (look it up) or a mini-USB3 with extension cable (not sure why full USB-3A can't be in there, but it's the chink manufacturers' decision) or this shit, which is slow as balls but might be cheap if you already have some 64GB or 128GB SD cards and want a second drive: aliexpress.com/item/Free-shipping-2-SSD-HDD-for-Laptop-Dual-Micro-SD-SDHC-SDXC-TF-to-Mini-PCIe/32561217037.html you can't upgrade the display on an X230T :( literally $400, for that you could buy a T450s... I have a 2010 model (actually 2008 specs) and although I actually like the keyboard, the trackpad and the cold aluminum is annoying .. I had a different 2010 where the battery catastrophically failed as well, never had these issues with a Thinkpad. my main gripe is the inflated price for the specs, though.
Samuel Fisher
>8 core at 3.6Ghz >32gb vs 4gb >1080p vs 800p >minor lmao ok kid
Leo Hernandez
There's two kinds of wacom pens, ones for their plastic tablet and ones for screen tablets, I'm sure these all work on each other, but not for the other kind. Maybe there's other wacom tech that I'm not aware of coming in the last couple of years, but the lens on my x220t, note 4, note 10.1 2014 all work on each other automatically and I'm happy with this setup.
Isaac Rogers
>T440p >i5 4200m >1600x900 >GT 730m >8GB RAM >256GB SSD Appears to be excellent condition and for approx. $290, should I get it? Any input appreciated.
Matthew Rodriguez
>8 cores in a laptop how illiterate are you?
Angel Ward
Why do we never talk about x250 here? Are they shit? I've got one with i7 arriving on Friday for $221
Isaiah Bennett
Thinking of buying my first Thinkpad, cheapo T510 on eBay, only thing holding me back is that it's got a ton of scratches everywhere on the lid. Is there a good way to remove these scratches for cheap?
Owen Cooper
Can you safely remove stickers from the LCD cover after several years have passed?
Austin Brown
God bless the Brexit and all the panic among the sellers in eBay. Just got a mint x270 maxed out for 400€.
Oh I need this one to complete my meager collection.
Parker Adams
Hey guys I’ve got an Nvidia NVS 4200M in my t420 but dxdiag is only showing the onboard intel hd 3000
Is that normal?
Josiah King
open device manager and see there, if it's not there see if it's disabled in bios, if there's no bios option then check if chip is physically there if not you got scammed
Daniel Hughes
how does a 8th gen cpu work in the X200? how do i get one of those??
Connor Reed
It's in the device manager along with the intel one, and in bios it's set to use Nvidia Optimus (whatever that is) and failing that use discrete (whatever that is) I'm a noob at GPUs
Evan Torres
well then it's working just fine, it's using optimus system so dgpu will engage only when you use 3d applications, you can force it through nvidia panel if the auto detection doesn't work for whatever reason
Luke Rodriguez
Okay that's what I figured but I wasn't sure. Never had two GPUs in a laptop before.
Nvidia Control Panel doesn't run automatically when windows starts either so maybe that's a problem but idk.
Adam Jackson
>no trackpoint try again fag
Henry Thompson
How am I doing, lads?
I upgraded the CPU, hard drive and RAM. I'm thinking of buying another stick of RAM to make it 16GB.
The nvidia gpu will only turn on when there's a running app that uses it, games, rendering, etc and isn't shown otherwise. Saves battery when not in use.
Gabriel Evans
idk user, are they shit?
I'm looking at an x250 with i5 5300u for $250, with dock. Is that too much for it? I'm also confused as to wether or not I can upgrade the ram to 16gb on this model. Getting conflicting messages
Bentley Lee
>I'm looking at an x250 with i5 5300u for $250, with dock. Is that too much for it?
Yeah, I've seen them go for $150, also the dock shouldn't be more than $20 used.
Tyler Ross
how do I fix my shitty colors and what's the best screen for a w530?
Also, whats the cheapest I can get a small IBM think pad, and what model (pre 2003-5) I want something I can play around with, I'm getting rid of all of my classic thinkpads so I just want something cheap and small to use for fun. I miss the build quality.
Oliver Robinson
i disagree, 5GHz spectrum is much less susceptible to EMI, and has more channels. every time my roommate turns the microwave on, my 2.4GHz is fucked
Eli Scott
Are docks really that cheap? I don't need one but at $20 I'll probably get one
Jonathan Roberts
Looks neat but at the very least put LTSB on that. Also I doubt you need 16gb unless you're doing something memory intensive.
John Myers
If you don't need one, save the money for a rainy day. You'll never know when you'll regret not having that 20.