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
EPP discount for new ThinkPads (USA & Canada only, usually 15%+ off): pastebin.com/ULHCY5ch
Helpful links and resources (Wiki, lookup tools and wallpapers): pastebin.com/DYjEnVq1
Austin Evans
what advantages will i get if i get the 90v adapter for my x220?
Cooper Richardson
Sockfags go home
Christopher Price
My IBM thinkpad with 4:3 aspect ratio lies over the ocean My IBM thinkpad with 4:3 aspect ratio lies over the sea My IBM thinkpad with 4:3 aspect ratio lies over the ocean Oh bring back my IBM thinkpad with 4:3 aspect ratio back to me
Leo Garcia
Are screens from T431s compatible with my T420?
Tyler Wilson
this would be good if you had striped socks and shaved
Adam Williams
Finally got the new keyboard and battery for my x220
Parker Young
How many ThinkPads do you have?
I'll start: i got 5 -T61 -L520 -T420 -W530 -X220
Samuel Sullivan
within the week, old men will be running the world.
Jose Bennett
90w: - battery charges faster - cpu may score marginally higher in stupid benchmarks like wei - iirc the minimum required for acceptable performance while used in a dock
65w: - smaller
Zachary Ramirez
can you use the 90w without a battery installed?
Oliver Mitchell
I bought the E560 thinkpad for 9000 NOK. Did I fuck up?
Easton Morgan
I'm new to Sup Forums
I recently got my hands on a Dell Latitude E6400.
Any suggestions on what to do with it?
Seems kitted out.
Isaiah Butler
install gentoo
Carson Sanders
put trump stickers on it and install gentoo
Jackson Morris
Having some issues with the virtual scrolling of my x200 running Windows 10 build 14393. Can this be helped?
Caleb Walker
Install Solus
Jace Ward
insanelymac.com/forum/topic/285678-lenovo-thinkpad-t420-with-uefi-only/ Everything but the sd card reader works apparently. Of course the wifi card doesnt, but thats fixable by flashing a custom bios or getting a $10 USB adapter.
Chase Myers
what can i do to a t440 to make it better
Carter Perez
Is $250CAD (~$185USD) for a brand new T430 a good deal?
Dominic Clark
Your appointment with FEMA should be finalized within the week. I've already discussed the matter with the Senator.
Jackson Myers
Hi I fell on a patch of ice and landed on my w500. The screen broke and I am now hunting for a replacement. What is a good replacement with the same feel as the w500. I'd like to have a tad more juice and a slightly brighter screen in the replacement. The one I've looked into a bit more is the T420, any suggestions or things I should keep in mind?
Angel Torres
So my X230 is kill. I don't like nor X250, nor X260. I mean there is no USB-C on X260, what year it is, 1945? So yeah, I am going to get System 76 Lemur now. Any tips on this?
Isaac Gonzalez
thinkpad?
more like shitpad
Joshua Lopez
Need a thinkpad for hackintosh, I'm thinking x220 Anyone done it?
Camden Harris
I want to splurge, what's the best I can get within 500?
Julian Cruz
Sanyo confirmed for the best producer of 18650 cells ever. >T430 9cell genuine battery >80+ cycles >still 101% of original capacity Get rekt, chinks.
Gabriel Gray
Is there a way to get the physical audio buttons working on my t420? On antegross
Christian Foster
that's bullshit, desu. if your x220/x230 doesn't get enough power from PSU it starts to drain the battery. The reason why thinkpads without batteries are throttled is because batteries in lelnovo thinkpads contain voltage regulators.
Justin Anderson
>start at 88% and stop at 94% for what purpose?
Jackson Perry
yes, just install windows
Daniel Allen
No no, on antegross
Juan Sanders
Charging your battery to 95-100% causes faster wear of cells.
Ryan White
write a script to raise lower mute the volume, use your de to make a custom keyboard shortcut using your audio keys that call those scripts
Cameron Williams
meant to also >anteGROSS That's gross, dude. Purge it and install OS for real men.
Anthony Diaz
T430 confirmed for master race.
Nolan Sanders
Whenever I move my t420 lid it goes into sleep mode as if I've closed the lid completely.
Is it an easy fix, /tpg/?
Noah Diaz
I have no idea what any of that means. I still have to look up how to install stuff in the linux command line
Luis Allen
install Windows 10
Hunter Cruz
no I like linux
Liam Perez
30 minute later reply, I still love you
Henry Edwards
I'm torrenting right now so if I open more than 4 tabs my browser freezes up, sorry senpai
William Murphy
I need to get a new battery for my T420, I want the 9 cell but do you guys have any preference for what to go for or is it just the cheapest I can find?
Jaxson Rogers
My x230 has a sanyo 9-cell battery pack.
73% full charge capacity compared with factory specs.
8h on Windows. 6h30 on Linux.
Caleb James
Did you try resetting it?
Charles Price
Yes. Went from 72% to 73%. Somewhat wore out battery pack. I'm pretty happy with it. Eventually I'll buy a new 6 or 9-cell battery, when this one wears out further. It went down from 76% to 73% in a year of being owned by me, so the last owner (swedish lady in a business) must have used the laptop like a retard in he two years she owned it.
Elijah Hill
What kind of battery should I buy for my T420? Chink 6 cell? Chink 9 cell? Real 6 cell? Real 9 cell?
Carson Peterson
here, 6 or 9 cell is down to preference You wont find a real lenovo battery for a reasonable price, you'll be looking at chinkshit. But I do like the 9 cell even if it does make the battery stick out back
Owen Allen
>dGPU real 9 cell >no dGPU real 6 cell or good chink 9 cell like antek
Nolan Perez
How many cycles? My previous x230 had 75% of original capacity after 300 cycles. Pretty good score to be honest
Gavin Edwards
It's a t420 so it doesn't have a dGPU
Leo Rivera
Will Thinkpads ever return to 16:10 screens?
Why can't lenovo order custom panels like Apple does?
Lucas Diaz
>within the week, old men will be running the world.
Without changing a thing because they ran it in the first place.
Caleb Ross
T420 can't have dGPUs tards
Jordan Jackson
>Will Thinkpads ever return to 16:10 screens? >Why can't lenovo order custom panels like Apple does?
No demand. They exist to make money. It's a very niche market.
Ethan Brooks
ugh, you don't get the good memes user
Liam Jones
Are you retarded? There was a T420 model with an Nvidia 4200 something, it's below the CPU and there's even coolers with 3 pipes for it
Nolan Butler
T420 Optimus nvs4200 isn't enough dedication for you
John Gutierrez
Why doesn't my X230 (on W7) play sound and YouTube videos until I hibernate it and turn it on again?
3 -X230 -X60 -T400
Jason Flores
What do the rumours say about the upcoming Thinkpad announcements?
Anything worth waiting for or should I go ahead and make a purchase now?
Adam Campbell
I am indeed retarded, sorey
Adrian Evans
but my t420 has a gtx 950 :^)
Leo Wood
I tried reapplying thermal paste to the CPU and GPU on my t530, but a screw attaching the heat pipe to the GPU is stripped and I couldn't remove it with a regular screwdriver. Am I fucked? Ask for pics.
Julian Davis
my guess is that a screw extractor might help in removing the stripped head. I'll bite, what does it look like? pics?
also, any reputable t420 resellers on ebay? one with a 1600x900 res would be nice.
Blake Rogers
...
Josiah Fisher
Also, I'm scared that a screw extractor might accidentally scratch the motherboard or the vibrations from drilling might crack the motherboard.
Xavier Baker
That looks hardly stripped and there's even enough room for some small pliers. Maybe try the rubber band trick first or just a properly fitting flathead.
Julian Sanchez
I tried needle-nose pliers and the rubber band trick. Fuck it, I could try the rubber band trick again. It's a lot more stripped than it looks. Last night I was working on that screw for 20 minutes and pressed down really hard when I tried to unscrew it. Nothing worked yet.
Oliver Martin
Is there a New ThinkPad out right now that's about $300? I only need to use it for Photoshop some shitposting, video editing and spreadsheets I just don't want to buy a used laptop and it be full of malware or on the verge of needing everything inside of the laptop replaced
Ryan Bell
By the way, it's the one on the left.
Angel Kelly
it very well could be the screw was machine tightened :-/
Parker Sanders
Well fuck.
Has anyone done something like this before?
By the way, while doing this I think I broke the seal on the CPU quite a few times because now under load it gets up to 95 C.
Juan Robinson
Don't think so.
You can buy a used Thinkpad with no/barely-any wear and no replacements needed and have it be great for photoshop for that price.
Jose Reyes
Have an IBM x61 and Lenovo T60. Both have insane wireless issues on any network, connecting to any AP. Mind, I've only ever put Slackware on either, which ships with an okder version of wicd (my preferred network manager) and wpa_supplicant. Is this a card issue? I've been trying to get NixOS on one of my machines and it needs wireless to grab packages, but I cannot connect.
Blake Adams
This is sex
Aiden Butler
>Love the idea of a thinkpad >Old Acer laptop is still running strong and better than the t420
Until this thing actually breaks it'd feel like a downgrade, which makes me want to dump a ton of money on something more expensive.
Luke Wilson
I'm poorfag so i bought ThinkPad L450. And its pretty fucking good machine for its price.
Lack of keyboard backlight is bad but im a writer so i dont care about it.
also: cyka blyat
Mason Barnes
What is the minimum model required for running PS & AI. I am on a budget and there are refurbished models on Amazon for $~166+
Levi Mitchell
cheap used x1 carbon, or w520 if you game
Jonathan Adams
>Lack of keyboard backlight is bad this really shook my jangles
Nolan James
I'd recommend a t430, t530, or w530.
Nathaniel Cooper
How much did you buy it for?
Ryder Ortiz
$600
Adam Hernandez
Brutal
Michael Lopez
there is no many good choises in russia so i have to buy it
Blake Brown
Cyka blyat
You got robbed, dear user. Anyway, if you're a writer, that keyboard will be nice, it's literally the same keyboard used in the xx40 thinkpad series.
Liam Bailey
Wtf is shis hipster company? THey just snap thir sticker on a chinese laptop and install ubuntu? So, this is how you make business in 2016, right?
Austin Price
This^
Ayden Morales
You can. You can even use the 65W without battery, but it throttles the CPU to 800 MHz
Parker Wright
retro ThinkPad on CES 2017
Daniel Torres
Okay, well there's a lot you can still try. If you have them, sometimes torx screwdrivers grab better. Otherwise superglue another screw to the top. Last time I had a fucked up screw in my headphones I removed the screw's head with a drill, but maybe that's not the best idea here.
Parker Taylor
That doesn't happen on my X230.
Christian Perez
What browser are you using? Chrome will always be best Youtube player because Google owns it.
Firefox will remain best news reader because extensions block anything you want blocked.
Henry Watson
Sounds suspicious.
Jose Nelson
I like SMALL visegrips, with the tip of the jaws filed or ground slightly if necessary, to pinch screw heads.
Most notebook screw heads are rounded by slightly incorrect screwdrivers. I use Wiha 00 and and 0 with much happiness.
If desperate and thorough, you could cover EVERYTHING around the screw head with automotive painters tape and kitchen cling wrap, then cut a slot across the screw head with a Dremel abrasive disc (the type with the fiber grid is best) then remove the screw. I've done that for other screws, it works, but it's an asspain.
Camden Wood
>Until this thing actually breaks it'd feel like a downgrade, which makes me want to dump a ton of money on something more expensive.
Just wait until after the holidays for bargains. Thinkpads aren't the only notebooks, and most notebook users don't really need a notebook so if yours doesn't leave battle station you could also do a desktop.
Adam Sanchez
But happens with the X220
Isaac Wilson
I have a battle station, but I have a laptop to use in bed and take with me to class/work. I was thinking of a 2013 rMBP-15 for about $1700, but just to splurge without going too overboard.
Tyler Martinez
Which model is the Acer? I despise Acer because every model I've seen has had some sort of issue
Aaron Bennett
It's an aspire ultrabook I picked up around mid 2012. I replaced the fan, battery, dvd-drive, and hdd over the past four years.