Other business laptops are also welcome in /tpg/ (e.g. Dell Latitude/Precision, HP EliteBook/ZBook).
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>Don't buy anything OTHER THAN HP Elitebook (2570p, 8770W, 2170p), Dell Latitude/Precision (E6440) and T, X, and W SERIES if you want the Real Business Experience™
>never remove the palmrest, pain in the ass to put back the fingerprint cable
Colton Long
I remember this extremely uncomfortable trackpoint. Holy shit I always had to carry a usb mouse with it. Thank god I was quickly given E6430s as my new company laptop.
Julian Rivera
Im currently looking for a new laptop. it should be capable of some heavy lifting and I dont mind paying for quality. is a 17'' a good idea? is there a brand that doesnt look like some razor mouse?
Hudson Young
HP 8770w if you want good dGPU option (up to 970m) and low price Thinkpad p70 if you want modern Thinkpad ((quality)) and TB3 eGPU support.
Jayden Sullivan
P71, Elitebook 8770w, Precision M6800
17" is a bit oversized though. Laptops this big will be a real pain in the ass to carry from place to place, even if you don't intend on ever using it off the AC.
Evan Price
Post your ThinkPads
Alexander Baker
actually this, there is this new p71.
Luke Baker
How shitty do you let your batteries get before buying a replacement?
Levi Taylor
>no mention of aspect ratio we're fucked, aren't we?
Oliver Morales
Are there any differences between the 9 cell batteries off ebay for $38 or the lenovo ones off amazon for $74?
Parker Wilson
IT'S HAPPENING
Wyatt Morgan
I only have my gf's ass or my thinkpad, not both in the same picture, sorry.
Bentley Reyes
if I unplug AC power and the laptop dies within 60 seconds, it's time for a replacement battery
Lincoln Stewart
You're late http ://blog.lenovo.com/en/blog/retro-thinkpad-its-alive/
Bentley Richardson
I doubt it
Isaac Hernandez
you can make two posts, I'll wait the 60 seconds
Wyatt Perry
if I put some things into the p71 it costs like 20% more than the best gaming laptop I could find.
>17" is a bit oversized though. Laptops this big will be a real pain in the ass to carry from place to place, even if you don't intend on ever using it off the AC. well it wouldnt be for daily carry. but I want something powerful that I can take with me if needed.
Nathaniel Carter
Yeah, it's too late, no one's falling for your shilling. Now sell your 2570p on eBay and stop having buyer's remorse.
Samuel Anderson
That's a pretty decent butt, Geranon.
Liam Robinson
so I recently bought an x201 tablet what OS should I install to make the best of it?
Carson Stewart
My butt is hairy, what do?
Also, is that a german coca cola sticker?
Brayden Reyes
Can I use my ThinkPads fingerprint reader as a login method for my GNU/Linux? I can't even find the device
windows 10 fedora (gnome) xubuntu with some package I don't remember the name for gestures and screen control (buttons)
Brody Stewart
I set up the fingerprint reader on Windows and thus it stored it in the BIOS as well
then I installed Ubuntu and the fingerprint reader worked the exact same
I don't know how I could add more fingerprints or change them, but I know I can delete them via the BIOS
but yeah it works to power on the laptop and log in
Josiah Clark
Y/N? The T430 doesn't come with a hard drive or battery so that's why I need the other two. The seller didn't have any information on the resolution so I'm assuming it's some shitty 1366x768 or some shit.
Tyler Collins
oh I forgot to mention that the t430 comes with a docking station which is cool and it still has the hard drive caddy
Thomas Ortiz
T400 was delivered today. It's in pretty good condition minus a couple scuffs on the lid. The battery is okay, lasts a little over an hour. Keyboard needs a cleaning too. Going to upgrade cpu and add some more ram soon. Not bad for $50.
Luke Anderson
intel 320-series SSD's are like 7 years old and they are also only SATA 2
and the "70+" batteries are 6-cell, the "70++" is the 9-cell
redpill me about the x230 tablet, wanted to buy an ipad pro but the thinkpads are way cheaper and actually have a proper OS
Bentley Stewart
I'm transferring to usc for their comp sci games program and trying to find a laptop to use during class, are thinkpad's good for programming and school in general? Or are they more oriented towards business?
Blake Hall
A laptop is a laptop as far as programming. You'll be fine as long as the screen is good and a decent size. nobody wants to program on a 12 inch shitbook with a 1024x768 screen.
Blake Evans
Right I figured as much, I was debating getting a screen that rotates to portrait mode but probably not necessary during class, my desktop can do that.
Daniel Barnes
Growing up in a shitty country like mine, and low on budget, i had to always game on low-end. I remember whem i bought my 8400gs, what a piece. Finishing Crysis 2 there at like, 15fps is probably something i should put at my curriculum.
People here was saying "HD 3000 sucks for games." and, maybe if you're a elitist i could agree with you, but so far, with a dual-channel t420, my results are pretty good. Even the Witcher 2 who only ram at like, 5 fps in my last notebook, now is playbable at 30fps and decent 16:9 resolution.
Actually got quite a bang for the buck i had, pretty satisfied.
Blog is over.
Zachary Hall
X-series tablets are NOT tablet replacements
they are huge and heavy
Gabriel Nguyen
tits or gtfo
Daniel Sullivan
Reposting from last thread, I reinstalled Windows 7 on my T400 and all of the sudden the sound stopped working. Either after I installed Daemon Tools or some Digital Line-In driver. Any ideas how to address? Should I just wipe Windows and start over again since it's a new install? I'd hate to have to download all the updates again.
I have several spare T400 keyboards (or more accurately, one T400 keyboard, one T60 keyboard and three T61 keyboards). Want one?
Logan Morgan
30 minutes. But I probably would just use/get another thinkpad.
Photoshop it then
Ubuntu Studio has a decent set of software for drawing.
Install and uninstall the sound driver. I think I had a problem like that before,sometimes thinkvantage has bad drivers.
Aiden Roberts
Is this a female (boy) butt?
Elijah Rivera
is that a man?
Landon Cox
its a >girl
Christian Moore
>implying that on Sup Forums any of you freaks would care
Brandon Garcia
how cancer is a brand new E470?
Liam Turner
>Have a sweet ass thinkpad at home >Work will only let me use their shitty laptops.
Worst part is that sales gets to use nice to use nice business models and im stuck with a shitty consumer model.
Leo Martin
It's more consumer-level. Nice piece, but you're paying more for the brand. You could get a similar Ideapad or shenanigans for less.
At least the L series maintain most features of the T series, while not being cutting-edge.
Jace Davis
because muh quad core I really dont know what else you wanna hear thats kind of it I still think the x230 looks better though but thats my taste if youre that user with the carbon fiber wrapped 2570p that looked pretty neat too
ew you some kind of girl kissing faggot or something
Elijah Lee
I would user. I'd say that your girlfriend (male) has a nice bottom
Joseph Martin
post. we're all faggots here.
Cooper Campbell
8770w good hardware (with swappable mxm gpu) great screen nice build quality
Tyler Foster
wow thats a lot of tweaking man thats actually pretty neat the hd 3000 is a bag of shit though but Im pretty impressed that you got something out of it
Adrian Fisher
Thanks for the offer but keyboard isnt bad to the point where it needs replacing. (It came with all kepcaps, the keys without caps were just a bit sticky and needed cleaning.)
Cooper Collins
you should clarify on this theyre heavier than an ipad have less battery life than a x230 kind of shitty thermals compared to a x230 the hinge is kind of shit too and are kind of garbage to draw on but if you just want something thats touch capable then its good enough. they are bad tablet replacement if want it to be one theyre good touch enabled laptops though that said I'd still go for a x230 as its really light and you could use it like a tablet once you get used to the trackpoint its also cheaper so you could save up a ipad quicker if you wanted
Nolan Bennett
where's my fucking retro thinkpad??
Cooper Baker
programming is about as demanding as business user. maybe even more.
I'd say get a xx30 for the good igpu and solid everything else
Nolan Roberts
>Can anyone comment on a T60's performance? >Web browsing, video, 720-1080p movies, 2hu games will work well enough? >Does it needs a more lightweight distro or can normally function even on WinXP?
>Web browsing: Did you mean shitposting? Let's do that on FF because it's the one of the best browsers there is (but 55 version and later are shit) First installing nightly. Also need to configure that fan speed (which I'm unable to do because I'm a total ass).
Browsing the internet seems to be on similar compared to T61 even with just 1.5gb ram. Youtube videos however, are quite a challenge to run which is why I installed smplayer. Before I continue with youtube, I'll try some anime (chobits to be exact which is in 720p) to see if it runs okay and then I'll be trying something that even my T61 was unable to run smoothly.
After testing youtube videos in 1080p and 30fps, they were not smooth nor were they when I lowered the fps down to 25fps or even 10fps. This iGPU is certainly on its limits, no doubt about that.
Now, the real question. How does it run anime? Well, 720p is no problem at all but 1080p, seems to work when you select in smplayer, to work on mpv (backend). Anime tends to be 23fps so I can't see anything too dramatic here. It certainly is better than how it was before. I also want to point out that theoretical power of the iGPU between T60 and T61 is quite noticeable. According to wikipedia, GMA950 only has 4 executing cores with 133-400Mhz clock speed while X3100 has 8 cores and 500mhz clockspeed.
ps. Keep in mind that I ran these test while T60 was hooked up to 1920x1080 monitor (pushing total resolution of 2944x1080. The result might have been better if ran from 1920x1080 itself without the laptops own screen) I used Lubuntu 17.04.
(B)log ends.
Jacob Torres
You asked it. You got it. Here you go. >inb4 Toshiba satellite No bully
I warned you. Btw, do gurls object if I have hair on my butt. If so how do I go about trimming them? I don't want to accidentally cause anal menstruations... Honorary pa/g/eet.
Jack Adams
T450s for $400? It would be replacing my X220 and a bigger panel would be nice (and also 1080p) but I don't know, is it worth it?
Adrian Bell
Right I meant that more as would ThinkPad's be good enough, but thanks for the recommendation, I'll look into them
Kevin Nguyen
I had no intention of quoting that post.. Been a long day
Brandon Rivera
Considering I have a satellite, I am probably the last person you want consult about buying laptops. I, myself, am here to learn about thinkpads...so far I've zeroed in on x230, but that shit costs too much here relative to how you guys have it in the west
Ian Adams
Lenovo signed a deal with a company that makes 4:3 screens
Luke Edwards
Yeah sorry man I'm still a bit high, didn't mean to quote you in that post..
Isaac Diaz
>the new keyboards are fine
Joshua Rivera
My T410 seems to have gotten stuck at ''shutting down...'' after updating bios with Lenovos update tool. What's the resale value of bricked thinkpads?
John Watson
What a fucking monster you must be to destroy the keys. Keyboards are for pressing, not mashing or hammering.
Owen Flores
I've just got a t420 Love it But the screen is really bad sometimes my eyes hurt from using it.
Is there something that can be done besides the Fhd mod which is paused for my model? I own the 1600x900 on the t420
Justin Davis
>throw old thinkpad on ebay >forgot to link paypal with ebay until after the bidding ended >2 days later winner still hasn't paid >don't want to message them asking them to pay >they haven't messaged me either
might just cancel everything and throw it in the garbage and forget this ever happened
Ian Baker
turn the brightness up and sit closer so you don't have to strain your eyes?
Gavin Campbell
Yeah but no luck. We don't have a good 720p screen on this one right? The best option would be the FHD mod?
Jason Perry
Jesus christ you're supposed to type not fucking curb stomp it your fucking manchild
Robert Wood
>laptop 3/10 >ass 5/10
Angel Wright
Most Turks aren't that dark t. Turk
Tyler Wright
Don't be a fucking faggot Just say "hey sorry my man I forgot to link my PayPal. Can you pay me today so I can ship this asap? Thanks" Literally copy and paste that. I know anxiety is hard but don't forget that this guy doesn't know you and you will never ever run into him so you might as well even spaz out on your message
Wyatt Flores
You sure you don't have the brightness too high or too low? I know the viewing angles and colors are bad but they're not that bad
William Mitchell
Just get a new mobo Or if you're stuck on Windows just give it a quick reboot My T430 got stuck after the first reboot while updating and just beeped at me so I said my prayers looked up a few mobo prices and pulled the plug
It was just fine and nothing happened
Kayden Rodriguez
alienware m14x r2 glossy 1600x900 tn panel will drop in with the standard hd+ cable. display quality improves from "crime against nature" to "pretty okay i guess"
Logan Collins
Can you post a direct sunlight comparison? I can tilt the screen to compensate for the shitty viewing angles
Thomas Adams
Maybe will try to take them to my office Wich has a better illumination than my house and see if the same problem happens might be it
Jose Brooks
I doubt it's that He's probably either straining his eyes by having the screen too bright or not bright enough Or just not tilting the screen
Or worst he's noticing the pwm or something
Thomas Morris
Would you have the panel number? So I can search it on eBay?
Samuel Cruz
Idk I never had this problem with screens besides when I played an 3DS
What is pwm?
Jeremiah Roberts
haha ok ahmed ;^)
Alexander Davis
Pulse width modulation Shit bait
Dominic Cox
My t420s just came in, has an SSD; I'm wondering what is the best way to completely zero-out/wipe the ssd? Can I get away with a reformat via gparted?
Jack Reed
what brand ssd? most have their own software for wiping them
Joshua Allen
Replace my t410s with a p50 and it's great. I'm still going to buy a retro thinkpad when it's released
