Other business laptops are also welcome in /tpg/ (e.g. Dell Latitude/Precision, HP EliteBook/ZBook).
>New to /tpg/ or looking for purchasing advice? (hint: use the advice request template, it makes life easier) pastebin.com/nBqTEbHn
>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 SERIES (≤**30) if you want the Real ThinkPad Experience™ >X60 if you plan on going for the Real Richard Stallman Experience™
theyre all good you guys well most of them at least
Gavin Sullivan
Has anyone done the Intel ME firmware update for their Sandy Bridge Thinkpads? I've tried to get it running on my W520 but whenever I run the Windows command line, I keep getting the error message "FWUpdLcl.exe is not recognized as an internal or external command", ie Lenovo's program cannot execute the ME update agent. Is there a way around this?
Lincoln Moore
Is the thinkpad x60 still good?
Brayden Gomez
Depends on distro. Win7 and both xp are shitty on it.
Luis Long
*blocks your path*
Noah Cruz
I'm planning on running probally debian.
Hudson Hughes
What battery life checking utility should I ask the potential seller to send screenshots of?
Ryder Russell
lenovo's power manager will tell you how many cycles the battery has seen
it will also tell you it's full charge Wh capacity and it's original design Wh capacity, although this one can be inaccurate if the battery has not been calibrated in awhile, but any other battery checking utility would just give the same number
Asher Garcia
I might be a pleb, but what's wrong with new keyboards? I get that it's a bit different, but it's not as bad as people say
Joshua Collins
theyre a bit different feeling apparently (wouldnt know Im perfectly happy with the one my T430) and they have a very bastardized layout compared to a regular desktop keyboard where the older classic keyboard was a bit closer to a regular keyboard. that said the new keyboards are said to have less flex
honestly both keyboards are pretty nice feeling and especially if youre coming from a shitty laptop like me and are used to using shitty keyboards it really doesnt matter which one you use.
Nicholas Williams
prtnscreen key should be a menu key
other than that I'm fine with it
Adam Brown
CAN YOU POWER ON + LOG IN VIA FINGERPRINT READER IN LINUX
Ayden Cruz
Woah man, just noticed that. I thought there was no such key
William Young
I have an x220 i7 model and when compiling it regularly goes up to 90+°C. Is it likely to be shit thermal paste or just fuck tons of dust?
Aaron Sanchez
possibly both, is the thermal paste the same as when you first got it?
Jordan Harris
been running a T61P for quite a while now with windows 7, and I gotta say, it's a damn nice machine. no slow down, consistent performance and video playback, and all while i play runescape in the background (yeah i'm a faggot).
Angel Brown
Thank you for removing the HP garbage.
> (≤**30)
Dropped.
Brayden Turner
The layout
Alexander Wilson
Yeah. I was planning to change it anyway, just haven't got round to it.
Xavier Fisher
Got a t450 touchpad and a "high gamut" IPS for my t440p, let's hope this shit works out for me.
Hey Sup Forumsuise i found this link thinkwiki.de/Tastaturrenovierung from a german wiki. And it seems like a way to restore the thinkpad's keyboard texture back. Have any of you tried something like this ? And if there is a german fag around can he translate this ?
My Toshiba's backlight just died and thinking of replacing it with a T530. Doubt it's worth repairing.
I'm looking at the following; Lenovo T530 3rd Gen i5 2.6GHz 8GB 320GB For $253.00 USD.
Thoughts?
Kayden Reyes
well i did the translation but some details are not translated very well. Because i dont have a spare keyboard to mess with, i dont want to follow wrong instructions.
Can you guys help. My t420s screen stays black when I boot. It beeps after booting and flashing the light from the webcame with 1 - 3 - 3 - 1 beep which comes out to DIMM or Mobo problems. What the fuck do I do? I took out the RAM, put it in the opposite slots and retried, do I need a new mobo? Where do I get a cheap one from china or something, its not even the nvidia one, I'd replace it myself if its not too hard or is the price better to just get a new laptop? Anyone have this prob or know how to fix?
Adam Nguyen
i5
Gabriel Martin
If it isn't the FHD panel don't do it. T530 owner.
Nicholas Green
I had a similar problem, called Lenovo and they sent a next day air box, had it back in under 72 hours.
Julian Taylor
Best 1080p panel for a W530?
David Nguyen
Guys, i need help I'm planning to buy an old T530 with an SSD and a DVD R/W. Can i replace the DVD R/W for an HDD later ?
Levi Bailey
Which thinkpad is most usable but also gubmint proof? don't want me no management engine
Luke Torres
Please put /tpg/ or some variant in the subject of the OP. You're evading my filters.
Jose Evans
Buy Macbook Pro now, or wait for Thinkpad Retro this fall?
Landon Harris
I hope they don't use that ugly logo. Still, can't wait to buy a used one 5 years after it comes out
Gavin Rogers
Has anyone here overclocked their cpu through coreboot?
And if so, what would be a better option i5 overclocked or i7? I'm assuming the i5 would clock a lot higher but maybe not.
>Still, can't wait to buy a used one 5 years after it comes out
THEY BETTER US A MXM GPU REEEEEEEEEEEEEe
Adrian Miller
My newly purchased x230's screen flexes in the upper left corner. Is this a big deal that will get worse over time? I did just get it within the last week, but I'll also be leaving the country come monday, is this a big enough deal to send it back?
Angel Fisher
Flashed my x60T to Libreboot but now the screen doesn't work because it turned out to be one of the screen versions that wasn't supported. Taking this as an opportunity to upgrade to a SXGA+ screen.
Libreboot supports both x60T SXGA+ screen versions, BOE-Hydis HV121P01-100 and HV121P01-101. Not sure what the difference between the two is though. Do both of these work with the stylus? I think I remember reading that one is glossy and the other is matte. Can someone confirm this and which distinguish is which?
Also, any reputable sellers out there? I've found a few panels on eBay but there's barely any info provided besides the model number. I have a feeling the sellers barely know English. No ad mentions anything about stylus support, matte/glossy, and anything about ThinkPads.
Ethan Reyes
>Budget: $200-300 >Location: Hong Kong >Size: Nothing too tiny, but I need something portable, light and thin. >Performance: Need something with long battery life, I miss the MBP battery life from my work laptop >Other requirements: Weight- my current laptop is over 2kg, I need something I can put in my bag and not worry about lugging it around all day.
Thinking x220 or x240, thoughts?
Ayden Martin
x220 is cheaper
Dylan Ortiz
X230 with 9 cell battery. If you prioritise battery life over display quality, you could opt for a non ips screen too. I use mine for general office stuff, fucking around with HTML / CSS and browsing. 7-10 hours of battery life on average, sometimes more. Being in Hong Kong is probably going to be advantageous in acquiring replacement and upgrade components too.
Sebastian Lopez
Bump
Logan Johnson
think my t420 is dying lads. since building my ryzen machine it's been lying in my bedroom which is ridden with damp. i booted it up in between then and now and installed a base gentoo system on it and then left it there. yesterday i installed a new kingmeme ssd, ran tails on it for about half an hour and noticed that it wouldn't boot unless i took the battery out for 5 seconds. today i turn it on and the screen looks "red shifted", on a white background it looks as if the red is shifting and oscillating, the fan exhaust smells musty and the problem with turning it on and off is getting worse. has anyone got any clue of what to do? i tried the funny static discharge power button trick, seemed to do nothing.
Jackson Bailey
Budget: £30-70 Location: UK Size: Doesn't really matter, just needs to be portable but nothing much bigger than about 12" Performance: Pretty much only gonna use this for basic level print "Hello world" tier programming and will always be near a power socket so battery life doesn't need to be much more than a couple hours, I just need something I can drag around with me, could run Linux and do basic internet browsing. Other requirements: None
Austin Rivera
T400?
Jack Martin
*replaces it with classic tp keyboard* Nothing personal chiclet-san
Kayden Bell
desu tfw i want the x220 but nobody ships to israel and those who do charge ((($200-$300))) just for the shipment even from europe
David Gray
Budget: >$200-$300 Location: >Israel Size: >x220 Performance: >x220 Other requirements: >make it ship to my country >doesn't need to have an hdd, ram or battery although it's preferable >must have a working screen
Xavier Baker
You're a Jew, use your uber merchant/business skillz.
Chase Flores
>IMG_6296>uses an iphone you have no right to speak
Carter Young
It was downloaded from one of the threads here. Blame the guy who posted it.
Alexander Rodriguez
מכיר מישהו באר"הב?
Carson Diaz
Can I put mac os x on top of coreboot? Thinking of getting an x230t, flashing coreboot and putting in a proper keyboard. Trouble is i need MacOS for work.
Anthony Price
This Seems to have pretty much more than everything I'd need, However it does seem to be consistently over £70 when searching around eBay, but if I lurk for awhile Maybe I'll find one cheaper. If there is still a cheaper alternative to the T400 that you know of that'd be dope
Connor Cooper
Try gumtree
Carson Rogers
Help me /tpg/ for I am having a crisis of faith. Long have a walked the righteous path with the stalwart T420s in pic related yet yesterday a temptor bestowed the in all but screen POS on the left in pic related. Sup Forumsentlemen, forgive the potato quality and deceptive angle but the screen quality of the T420s is truly cancer. This sad fact driven home by the consumer trash HP to its right. >but I have to look at the screen all day long /tpg/ breathren, whence can I find a worthy successor to the T420s yet with a display worthy of its heraldry? Can I have it all?
Landon Sanders
all thinkpads up until 2016 have shit screens that use low quality PWM panels that will fuck up your eyes; extremely noticeable especially on low brightness
the screen is arguably the most important part of the laptop, the part that interfaces that interfaces with the user
לצערי לא אם יהיה מספיק ביקוש אולי כדאי לנסות לעשות רכישה המונית
Lucas Peterson
I should've mentioned I'm Scottish, Most shit on Gumtree is down in London. Not sure how great of an idea it is to buy without actually seeing the product beforehand from Gumtree.
Blake Jones
:/ קשה לי להאמין אולי תחפש מאירופה?
Andrew Morgan
Okay, what do then. How do the screens on the Latitudes and Precisions compare to Lenovo's efforts?
Gavin Walker
Damn Keb, that sucks.
Christian King
check for reviews of the model and the display, look for PWM
William Rogers
of course it shows up on camera, but it's nowhere near that visible in real life same shit happens with my t420 and t430
it looks the same because the pwm flickering is far faster than the human eye can perceive. cameras can see it because they use a quick snippet of time, while our eyes are continually open
Bentley Cooper
If I were to sell an X220, should I flash back the official latest BIOS or just leave the modded one in there?
I mean I considered that maybe a new buyer would just mess things up with the settings.
Jonathan Jones
hoping i was gonna get auicker reply on the so called leddit
Carter Jackson
this has probably been asked/answered a million times but how do you clean the screen?
I have two thinkpads with dirty screens I always find conflicting advice when I google what to do.
Joshua Howard
piss on a towel works best, make sure it's your own though
Joseph Rivera
Are these x220 temps unreasonable for browsing the internet?
Feels like my PC's gotten warmer compared to when I first got it two years ago (and replaced the paste myself)
Caleb James
pretty sure the ammonia in your pee will damage the screen
Joshua Butler
you have a laptop in your kitchen?
John Hill
it's not rocket science, it's just a piece of glass
microfiber towel/rag for dust damp microfiber towel/rag for gunk window cleaner + microfiber towel/rag for caked on snot and cum
