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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
Is my battery charging or no? (I dont want it to be charging)
The battery indicator on my panel reads: (estimating..., 49%) all the time
Michael Rodriguez
It's the MALM desk and it feels much more expensive than it cost, incredibly sturdy
Anthony Wilson
Got the P50 from the mail boys. Pretty nice beefy computer. It's actually my first Thinkpad as a regular device, and it's not bad at all.
>Keyboard Surprisingly good. Not IBM glory days, but better than most laptop keyboards. I've only used flat keys for laptops, so the curved keys feel like heaven, especially spacebar. Makes it feel like a desktop keyboard. Trackpoint is best mouse interface for a laptop.
>Display I didn't go for the 4k screen, but HD still fine. Not quirky artifacts or anything.
>Software Usual win10 faggotry + A little bloat from Lenovo. Updates, a little rocky at first, turned out fine in the end. Drivers are ok. Probably going to try out Xen hypervisor on the thing later, but this'll do for now.
>Xeon + Quadro Xeon processor is probably a meme, but it was the only option for getting the quadro m2000m.
Haven't tested out the battery but will tomorrow.
Questions?
Joseph Jenkins
yes
why havent you installed a linux distro?
Hunter Reed
I will, not right now. I got school shit to do. Soon though, winter break is right around the corner for me.
William Gray
To the user that sold me his x220. That "install gentoo" txt file made me chuckle. So because of that I'll make it a personal mission to install gentoo. I initially planned on installing Mint but I figured why not.
Jackson Robinson
I have a T430s and basically the speakers are pretty shit - at least in terms of the low end. Volume and high's are fine
I'm running Ubuntu 16.04
Is it possible that I might be missing a driver or something or is everything fine and dandy and the speakers on the T430s are just trash? I work on a T540p at work and the speakers, including the low end, are surprisingly really good (for laptop speakers of course)
Aiden Reed
It's not that hard to install Gentoo. Step-by-step babby wiki on the website. If you've installed arch linux, gentoo is just arch+waiting for compiling to complete
