What look do people give you when they see you using your thinkpad in public?

>what look do people give you when they see you using your thinkpad in public?

>Caring about what normies think of you.
You know better right? You have gentoo installed and they don't.

>windows xp
>not gentoo
GET OUT NORMIE REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>Not a normie.
>Using a smartphone.
Pick one.

Not give a shit.
>but people call my thinkpad old and shit ;-;
If you're using a newish thinkpad just open up device manager / screenfetch and show them your specs and tell them to fuck off
If you're using an old thinkpad just tell them to fuck off

>in public

lmao fuck off normie faggot

spiffy pda user

I imagine it would look something like this in a Starbucks if you bought a thinkpad

>"OMG, Sarah look across from you, like his old thinkpad laptop is like so outdated"
>"Like yea, my Macbook Pro™ that cost my like $2,000 is way better than his.
>I know right, I bet he can't afford the new iphone™ for like $1,000
>"Oh hey, can you get into my backpack to the my usb apdater for my laptop and the other one for my memory card?"

>have emacs open in one window
>have my terminal open on the other with mutt checking my email
>in third terminal windows I'm wgeting pages off the internet so I can read them offline later

The look I get is "Uhh sir are you hacking"

>starbucks
>not buying open-source coffee from a mom and pop coffee shop.

Wtf should they think?

Most people don´t even care which brand you using.

They only know Apple.
Brands like Lenovo, Sony, Acer etc. are just brands, which are not Apple.

It probally doesn't help I have an "I-bad bad for your freedom" and "GNU and linux the dynamic duo" stickers.

No idea, I don't pay attention. On some party (with many people from my course; I later left it for a better university because it was essentially java-pajeet course) one guy said that he thought of me as 'that guy with cool thinkpad'. People rather point out how often I carry my laptop around.

Somebody give me a rundown on the thinkpad

>GNU and linux the dynamic duo
Who would understand that, or assume it's for hacking?
The looks you get are all in your head.

>bon jovi

>starbucks
Macfag with thinkpad.

>iPod touch
Oh boy, some smart phone, you sure got'eem.

I'm not a self conscious narcissistic fuck. Nobody gives a shit about the laptop I use, I just use my x200 because I like it and it works

>using smartphone for cryptic phone calls when needed with prepaid sim
>using it as MTP
>using it as flash storage
>bad thing
Yes, it's actually a bad thing as long as the phone is quite easily traceable and is basically a gps tracker and metadata cumulator.

thinkpads looks like old cheap generic laptops so people dont even look at it

> presentation time in university
> VGA beamer
> Half room are Macbook fags and nobody have a adapter
> Nobody wanted to give them their laptops because its their own fucking fault
> All failed the course

fuck off macbooks, srsly
I dont have a thinkpad, but a notebook for which I dont need 1000 fucking adapters

They ask me why I'm using such a "small laptop" (X220).
Yes, they're all using 15-17'' laptops...

the hell is THIS

>posting online about how much of a not self conscious narcissist you are

I use an X1 Yoga, couple people have asked questions on what laptop is so thin or whatever, most people don't give a fuck and people give zero fucks when I'm using an X230.

Most people really don't care what laptops or tablets or whatever other people are using.

Mobile Internet Dongle

They dont because i use an xps 13. Get on my level rtard

I probably come off like a homeless person, I ride a bike and wear a big jacket and sometimes I don't shave, and I have a 10 year old thinkpad.
One time a couple gave me a $20 at a Starbucks, thinking I was a homeless

I see the look of cuckoldry in their eyes and laugh as they happily spend all their hard earned cuckbucks on overengineered shittops while they buy their overpriced diarrhea espresso garbage. But not I, I have my T420 with an aftermarket msata ssd with Gentoo perfectly configured for my hardware. My browser runs laps around their horseshit bloated normie garbage with toolbars taking up half the screen. The only reason I'm at starcucks is to do man in the middle attacks on normies all day to put their cuckbucks to good use by converting them to bitcoin so I can buy stolen thinkpads off the darknet and daisy chain them altogether to form the thinkmatrix which will let me ascend to my true form, Stallman420.

This

He doesn't have internal WLAN because he needed his internal slots for an mSATA SSD and an external GPU

Is the poor meme true on here? I never see anyone talking about the X1 carbon but it apparently has good reviews. Anyone here have one?

I don't even look at people.

>virgin

living the Sup Forumspunk dream

I took mine to my university a couple of times. No one really cares.

>Running Linux as your main OS
I couldn't do it

i once ranted to a normie at my college who was unfortunate enough to try to talk to me that thinkpads were the best looking laptop ever made and she said "they're okay i guess" so i showed her my rice and she seemed unimpressed

but she was the one who went to talk to me because she's considering cs major and i mentioned something about it in class

we had sex eventually but i had to start ignoring her because she fell in love with me

moral of the story if you show girls your thinkpad rice they fall in love with you

Protip: nobody fucking cares or recognizes your computer. Real life isn't Sup Forums and you're self conscious over a fucking laptop that nobody cares about.

OP, you must have a pretty low self esteem to think about such petty thoughts. Independently from what you are using and doing…

>wtf it looks old :--DD
genuine reaction from my friend upon seeing my W520
he was amazed to learn that it is almost 2x faster than his Dell, has a 1080p display, water drainage holes, thinklight, 4 ram slots and 3 drives installed

install cloveros

>nice keyboard
>cheap refurbished
>reliably supports Linux/spectrum disorders

...

Who's the chestlet on the right?

>In cafe using WiFi, ordered a coffee so I could stay inside
>Few other people inside as well with Macbooks
>I have my T420, 2720QM, 1TB SSD
>Some thugs come in with bags over their hands
>They take the tip jar and money from the til
>As they're leaving they grab two of the customers Macbooks
>I am next to the door
>Oh shit they're coming my way
>They look at me and walk out the door

That was a close one I still had all my hentai porn on the desktop

>In a cafe
Come on user... you're no normie

10/10

...

they think im a hacker

wew 1TB SSD is only $362. back in my day we spent $1/GB

this is why you're virgin

get a mac and you get laid

By men

Why is x230 better than t420?

I forget, but I've seen this video and its mediocre.

they look at me as if they want to [spoiler]send help[/spoiler]

I've fucked 2 girls by showing them my mpd+ncmpcpp setup. Literally the easiest way to seduce women

>tfw you you run Debian with unriced Xfce, and normie girls just say "user, what's wrong with your Windows?"

>cost me
I think you meant to say, "cost my daddy/boyfriend/husband"

>we had sex
Sex doesn't exist, user. What are you even talking about?

dat guilty feel when normies observe me operating i3-gaps and vim
>im not hacking i swear

do any of you actually go outside
literally nobody cares

They probably think I'm going to amok them. My TP is full with "hands off my gun" and edgy ancap stickers. (I'm from Germany).

>BROS THIS GUYS A HACKER

laptops which are flawless

X220 is the best model

this. but only with IPS panel.

DELETE

so they think you're a LARPer?

don't know. probably. it's German normies. they probably think about how to pay their next tax bill in the most efficient manner so the government won't gas them.

>do anything at all in a terminal
>really, anything
>compile software
>SSH into something
>write a script
>even just cd code ; cd .. ; cd kode ; ls -a
>user ARE YOU HACKING?!?!
>they really mean it sincerely, too

Maybe don't pick a black and green color scheme then?
Even apple has the sense to make the default terminal colors white bg with black foreground text, it's non-threatening.

>1366x768

i hear the same quality applies to people who are weirdly into old volvos

just be weirdly into old volvos and thinkpads and basically you're drowning in pussy

>"now that i have finished showing you my i3-gaps rice on my librebooted thinkpad, let me show you my pristine 240 DL"
>she cums immediately

Mod it

how about pink on dark gray?

I can't even read that, please tell me you're joking.

i have learned the best way to deal with this is just say
"no i just run linux"

they don't know what it is but generally speaking people are too prideful to ask what you just said if you said it in a way that clearly expected them to know what it is so they just say "ohhhh" and look off while probably theorizing what exactly that means

please only be ironically using that as a screenshot. you're harming your eyes.

No, just pulling your leg.

Kimmy Granger

When I travel with my x61s I imagine most people assume I'm a business man of some sort. That illusion is usually broken by my dank anime wallpaper though.

Some Normie's are intrigued by the 4:3 screen.

Here's an intense exchange with a stranger I had when I opened my X1 Carbon up in the library.
>"That's a nice laptop you've got"
>"T-thanks"

I'm weird into old Volvo's and Thinkpad, are you into boi pussi?

I've gotten a lot of respect for using an older computer with enthusiasm.

You can't argue with "I love that old thing".

the same look they give me when i use my n900 and calculator watch.

Im serious. I dont have a problem with it

for some reason either scrot or Sup Forums changed the size, color, and sharpness. text should be smaller, pink should be brighter, and text should be sharper

I might believe the thing about color, but the res/sharpness is bullshit, I know unscaled fullhinted text when I see it.

Either way quit getting butthurt that people don't like your colors.

ok heres proof u cunt

nigga you're scaling the image, it's the same on my end

Sup Forums is scaling it and scrot is fucking up the color

You're DPI scaling or zooming in on the page my friend.

>Cheap
>Cheap
>Cheap
>Plenty of I/O
>Easy to breakdown if you want to repair/ upgrade/ mod
>Endurance unlike notebook shit that pops piece on the mainboard after 3 months of moderate use
>And cheap

ehh, youre probably right; i probably have a default of like 120% page zoom. but scrot is still washing the fuck out of the colors and i think blurring it

a respectful nod, usually

>just open up device manager / screenfetch and show them your specs
so they can scream and run away like you're about to simultaneous hack their iPhone and detonate a fucking explosive device? might be best strategy now that I think about it though, yeah

thank

Neko Miko Reimu a qt

I have used the same thinkpad since my junior year of high school. It was relatively new back then, but it shows its age among a college campus full of macbooks. I get some ribbing about it from my classmates, but a few of them thought it looked cool and asked where they could buy one.

I bought one for my brother when he started college too. Got the job done, I guess. His wife browses Sup Forums; she thinks its pretty cool that we both own thinkpads.

Are the external ones as reliable/fast as the internal ones? other than needing the slots or using libreboot (cant find any compatible card locally but, these external ones are available) are there any other benefits?