Other business laptops are also welcome in /tpg/ (e.g. Dell Latitude/Precision, HP EliteBook/ZBook). ---- If you're looking for purchase advice, READ THE BUYERS GUIDE FIRST. Then post, stating budget and requirements (e.g. size and performance). Don't buy anything OTHER THAN T, X AND W/P SERIES if you want the Real ThinkPad Experience™
Recommended models: T420 - 14", normal size X220 - 12.5", ultraportable ---- Why ThinkPad? (also applies to other business laptops) >Used machines are plentiful and cheap. >Excellent keyboards - tactile feel and quiet. >Great durability: chassis uses a 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, upgrade and maintain thanks to readily available service manuals for every model. Spare parts are easy and cheap to obtain. >The best trackpoint (that red thing in the middle of the keyboard). Great for those who type a lot or hate swiping their fingers all over a touchpad. >Excellent GNU/Linux & *BSD support. ---- Used ThinkPad Buyers Guide: ktgee.net/tpg
You can still search the catalog for /tpg/ and get this thread so who cares.
Landon Kelly
Seconding.
Nathaniel Reed
Mehh, why do that when I can have filters that do it for me?
Jayden Reed
>mehh
Caleb Watson
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Kayden Lopez
Yes i know my camera is shit.
Caleb Morgan
Fuck off namefag
Dominic Bennett
OP? Do you not know the difference between name and subject?
Jace Jenkins
Hahaha holy cheesus crisp
Dylan Allen
Excuse me?
Asher Edwards
no
Xavier Cox
Your camera isn't that bad, use manual focus you misguided android user
Caleb Ortiz
the term is 'tripfag' and OP isn't one
now shut the fuck up, summerfag.
Andrew Campbell
Not an argument.
Levi Butler
manchildren
Zachary Johnson
I didn't see the subject box in 4chanx until after I hit post. My bad.
This is why I never make threads.
Jason Ward
tripfag =/= namefag
Bentley Scott
Ok.
Anthony Martinez
Well now you know, which is half of the battle! Sup Forumsi Joe!
Carter Gray
The name defaults to anonymous. When it doesn't, it's because people chose to use a name. The trip is the string of characters after the name to ensure private use. Read the rules.
Asher Gomez
hello Sup Forums, my t60 developed some black spots on the screen. Where can I get a nice flexview display?
Christopher Miller
i have a t420, planning to upgrade to i7 quadcore
which cpu is best to prevent housefire?
Austin Parker
what do you use your ThinkPad for?
Robert Morales
Why did nobody tell me about how great are soft rim trackpoint caps, i mean, I can't go back to default soft dome after this.
Seriously, it's life changing.
Wyatt Gutierrez
Ordered an X220 for around $127 or £89.99.
Has i5, 4GB and 160GB Intel SSD. Was this a good deal?
Caleb Ortiz
because it has tiny cum stains on it
Ryan Stewart
Where can I by some of these?
Zachary Baker
fun
Andrew Fisher
i just want as much power as possible without burning my house
also gaming with egpu
then virtualization and shit
Isaac Sullivan
ips screen?
buy an mSATA and then enjoy duoboot
Xavier Garcia
go balls out with the i7 then, but reapply thermal paste and make sure air is flowing. I recall having idle temperatures at around 60 degrees on my old T420 with its i7 and 8GB of RAM.
You can probably get them elsewhere on ebay/aliexpress, but those are genuine or at least really high quality knock offs. I've bought couple of others off of ebay and they were so soft they were basically unusable.
Nathan Price
chrome support for 32-bit OS has ended. what are my options now with my T60? my work environment is entirely dependent on my ability to sync details on the same browser on three computers
Brody Turner
No IPS screen unfortunately. It costs like £50 here in the UK, is it worth it?
Evan Price
Can I use my power charger for my t420 for the dock? Looking at buying a dock but none that I see include a power charger. Are the docks meant to use a different beefier charger?
Julian Moore
Has anyone put a ThinkPenguin network card in their machines? Is it worth it?
John Wilson
That's pretty hot tbqh, my i7 X220 idles around 45-50
Andrew Cox
IIRC chromium still has 32bit support.
Henry Peterson
install 64 bit OS.
Jace Collins
My x220 doesn't have a power cord, but it seems to fit the power adapter for my X230.. Is it safe to use my x230 power cord on it?
I want to eventually get it it's own cord, and there's lots on Ebay but are there any risks associated with the power adapters that are very cheap on Ebay?
Nathan King
indeed, but i didnt clear out the fans or reapply thermal paste :)
Bentley Miller
are there any options for replacing the 4:3 1400x1050 panel in the T60 with something with more brightness? i don't mind that it's a washed out TN panel, but i do mind that in some conditions it's difficult to see the display even at max brightness
Wyatt Hall
my CPU doesn't support 64-bit OS
is it decently stable, and can i use the same extensions that i do on chrome? i'm extremely wary about this, and i have considered making a permanent move back to firefox again
Eli Davis
Its stable as long as you dont load it up with a fuckton of userscripts and shit. The only thing it cant do that chrome can is play netflix because of the DRM shit.
Ryan Campbell
Get a newer CPU and a 64 bit version of the OS
Leo Lee
do the T60 motherboards even support CPUs with 64 bit support?
David Phillips
Just bought myself an X250, seems pretty much perfect so far. How is an X220 better?
Jason Anderson
keyboard layout.
Grayson Myers
No
Logan Rodriguez
>My x220 doesn't have a power cord, but it seems to fit the power adapter for my X230.. Is it safe to use my x230 power cord on it? Yes, if the power adapter head fits into the socket and it's made by Lenovo, it's safe.
Michael Rogers
Share your buyer's remorse:
I let a CF-C2 go for 305USD Complete set with battery, COA and adapter, A- grade Only problem was some bubbling on display
I think I fucked up
Bonus: Are there any laptops that Sup Forums buys in bulk to resell?
Jaxon Thompson
T60 CPU is socketed, and you can get 64-bit T7*** processor dirt cheap on ebay.
Michael Robinson
nope
Joshua Walker
...
Kevin Long
i7 x220 is duo core + hyper
i7 i'm looking for is quad core + hyper
Cooper Stewart
Some do, some don't. If yours came with a 32-bit CPU, chances are it doesn't.
The real solution to your problem is to install Seamonkey.
Charles Allen
I love insecure people trying to make themselves feel better about their purchases
Angel Powell
I did because I didn't like it
Julian James
There's a LED backlight mod, I'm not sure if they're easy to find nowadays
Julian Brown
that's understandable
William James
do you know if cheap-o ebay thinkpad adapters are save to use?
Oliver Long
Post your startup times! >tfw POST takes longer than the OS to boot
Wyatt Wood
pls answer. Can i use the power adaptor of my laptop (t420 90w adaptor) and use it/connect it to the dock? dock #433715U
Luke Brown
Under 10 seconds from power on.
40 seconds if I have RAMDisk enabled (it mounts during boot - 16GB Volume reading from SSD).
Jaxon Hughes
I always like a good, soft rim.
Ayden Martinez
You can, they're meant to use the same power adaptor
Elijah Murphy
Pretty neat for a X200.
Zachary Phillips
Yeah
Nicholas Barnes
Why no love for the thinkpad yoga? Am uni student again. Enjoyed using the Surface. Thinking about the thinkpad yoga.
Lucas Rogers
Because of build quality
Grayson Perez
My X220 will manage to get into the upper 70s when doing something as simple as browsing Sup Forums. Is this normal?
Joseph Wood
Most people don't require the tablet gimmick, and it's expensive as hell because of it.
Maybe in 5 years when it becomes cheap enough to buy as a novelty.
Isaiah Watson
Actually the surface for school - if you're competent - is pretty dope.
Joshua Moore
absolutely not
post htop
Michael Parker
Dab bitch
Gavin Perez
thanks. I see a usb 2.0 dock and usb 3.0 docks in my area. Should I pick one over the other? Go with whatever's cheaper? My T420 has a usb 3.0 expresscard already if that matters.
Connor Perry
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Joseph Kelly
Anyone have any experience with the Lenovo Enhanced Performance keyboard? I'm looking to get an external monitor (any recommendations on that too?) and would like a keyboard to go with it. I reckon I'll look into mechanical keyboards too, but it's not like I'm deadset against membranes or whatever.
Nathaniel Perry
Never had one, if it was just the media keys, then i would want one, but the shortcut shit is useless in my opinion..
Just get a RT3200 for the trackpoint meme.
Gabriel Hernandez
My T61 keyboard randomly stops working for a few minutes and then starts working again from time to time. The trackpoint and fn + function keys still works, but all other keys don't. I tried it on Windows and Linux, same problem. Will replacing the keyboard help or is it something else?
Jacob Cook
Would this with a ps/2 adapter work on muh loonux? Because it's super sexy and I want one.
Joshua Cooper
Yeah, you have to set up trackpoint scrolling manually though, but thats easy, just 4 lines in .xsessionrc.
Should I get the pricier original or a cheap generic replacement keyboard for my T61?
Mason Bailey
Original, gotta have that steel backplate.
Liam Long
I lost functionality of the left Control, Alt, and Fn keys. Even using Fn-lock in the BIOS does nothing. It's like they don't exist. Wat do? Been looking for ideas for days, and have tried a lot: >reload OS >reset CMOS >reload drivers 20 times The last thing I'll try tonight is changing keyboards. Any ideas?
>I lost functionality of the left Control, Alt, and Fn keys. > Even using Fn-lock in the BIOS does nothing. It's like they don't exist. Wat do?
Sounds like damage to the PCB, maybe water damage or a corroded/broken line.
>The last thing I'll try tonight is changing keyboards. Any ideas? uhhh...change keyboards? Try a usb keyboard
Aaron Morris
I mean I could swap the laptop keyboard pretty easily. But yeah I'll dig up a USB keyboard.
Jaxson Johnson
Try AliExpress, the shopping may cost you a bit but prices are as low as $40-$50. Waiting for my x220 IPS screen to be shipped here to SEA.
Thomas Williams
anyone know a place in the us to buy the updated 1080p x240 screen
Oliver Gonzalez
In terms of specs, it isn't. What's better is the price & the keyboard layout.
James Hall
Buy some x220s & t420s, upgrade them and sell them off.
Nathan Bell
how often do you guys clean out the fan of your thinkpad?
Adam Bell
i bought ~170 x60 tablets last summer at a government auction for about $800. a lot of them were in pretty shitty condition though so i ended up selling most of them for parts
Camden Bailey
a little more often than i shower
Nicholas Wright
Every few months I remove the keyboard, blast some air in and a little (very little) spray of WD-40).
Benjamin Flores
the keyboard swap did it. damn, i preferred the general feel of the other better.
