>1080p models going for 450-500 dollars on eBay
>all 1080p models have IPS panels
>shit tier touchpad can be replaced with 20 dollar T450 touchpad from chinks
>a lot thinner and lighter than the T420/T430
>runs cooler and quieter
>decent battery life
Name a better laptop for this price bracket that's just as affordable in Europe
are there any x2** series that are affordable to this point and have 720p or 1080p? I like it small and comfy. no homo
Runs your autism OS just fine too
enjoy your lenovo rootkits
That keyboard looks like shit m8.
>T550
>550€
>a bit extra to not have to fuck around with the trackpad, one gen newer processor, better battery and longer warranty
Got a refurbished T430 with Core i3-3320M, 8 GB of RAM and a 256 GB SSD for £220 last week. Same specs that I have in my current main laptop and nice to use.
>keyboard
>tfw retired my t60 yesterday
just not worth buying a new battery for at this point tbqh with you joe
>no physical buttons for the clit
I'd rather just stick with a fucking Surface at that point.
>I can't read
>ULV Haswell
>1 RAM slot, 4gb soldered to mobo
>no cd/dvd drive, can't get a second 2.5" drive
>you literally need to replace the trackpad with a 30 dollar, backdoored version from Chinkistan just to make it usable
Wew.
OP already mentioned you can get a replacement.
>from Chinkistan
You mean....like the rest of the Thinkpad?
Or did you mean like your Apple Throttlebook?
>secondhand laptop
>decent battery life
don't kid yourself
Is it still viable for netsurfing and some programming?
I can buy it for like $40, is it worth it?
Eh, I probably wouldn't wish it on you for $40. You're probably better of saving for something better.
It's workable but pretty sluggish, even running Xubuntu. It can do 480p youtube videos no problem, which really on it's screen isn't too bad. Other than that it's fine for shitposting and general browsing if you don't mind being confined to a few tabs and certain sites taking a bit longer to load than others. One huge problem that's been plaguing it for years (regardless of OS) is sometimes the wireless card doesn't activate on booting and it needs to be restarted.
I upgraded the processor to a 2.33 GHz Core 2 (the fastest its mobo could take) last year but recently wanted the SSD I put inside it for something else. Once I put its old HDD back in the battery life went to complete shit again. Another consequence of changing the CPU is that it hits this weird BIOS protection screen that it has to just sit at for about 45 seconds upon every boot, quite annoying when you need to restart it 3-4 times sometimes just to get the wireless working. The only thing it really has going for it still is it's keyboard and clitmouse.
>implying the originals aren't made in china by a chinese factory for a chinese company
found the classroom retard
>what is a replacement battery
How's battery life?
Isn't this the thinkpad with the 12gb RAM limit?
>trashman.jpg
>chiclet keyboard
dropped
-posted from my x120e with a chiclet keyboard
Honest question, what do people do that they need that much memory? I don't think I ever go above 8gb.
>x120e
KAWAII
>Honest question, what do people do that they need that much memory? I don't think I ever go above 8gb.
For me, it's photo editing with really big photos and an autoblogging script I run for my affiliate marketing stuff that builds 30 sites at a time. Both of those use every bit of 16gb of RAM.
For normies, it's just another level of future "proofing" for your device to support as much RAM as possible.
New chassis ThinkPads are all garbage. The true cutoff point was the xx30 generation, at least you could swap out the keyboard if you really really wanted to. Anything later is fucking trash, its when the women took over and started cost cutting and getting rid of nice innovative things like the ThinkLight which is miles better than a backlit keyboard.
Its not underrated, there's a reason its so cheap. Nobody wants it. Hasn't that occurred to you?
>Honest question, what do people do that they need that much memory?
A hundred chrome tabs loading motherless.
Don't bother. He's an appledrone who simply cannot comprehend the idea that laptops could come with a battery that can be replaced by the end user.
>shit tier touchpad can be replaced with 20 dollar T450 touchpad from chinks
Does this still require bios and driver mods?
plug n' play for me.
I use only gnu/linux, though.
>Underpowered cpu
No thanks user
If you do actual intensive work (95% of Sup Forums ruled out), then it might be an issue. Otherwise, Sup Forums isn't going to notice a difference.
All you need to do is install the correct driver and then blacklist it from ever being updated by Windows.
camerongray.me
howtogeek.com
As far as I know, it works right out of the box with Linux now.
Don't always need 16GB but occasionally have to juggle a memory hog IDE with other tools and 8GB is cutting it close for me.
t61 is good for web browsing, and I'm pretty sure the t61 is a budget model from around the same time so yes, it's fine
But I can get a better cpu for cheaper and get more or less similar battery life user
It's not that I'm going to notice how slow it is
It's just I really don't care for the bump from 900 to 1080 and I don't care much for the ips viewing angles are or colors.
My trash T430 screen is good enough for me and my T430 costs a third less than any T440 variant or x240.
I don't have anything against the xx40 series (except for f keys) it's just I feel like I'm paying too much for not a lot more
Ayooo
1080p IPS display, 500GB SSD, trackpad mod
dell latitude e7450 is better, cheaper, thinnner, and nicer screens.
What do you define as decent battery life?
I consider anything that isnt running an extended battery with 5+ hours good battery life.
It has the worst touchpad I have ever had the misfortune of using. It would sometimes stop working completely until I rebooted the system. I ended up giving it to my mom.
>Intel ME
nah
How long have you had it for and what do you think of it?
>dell latitude
Actual shit tier chiclet keyboards, whereas chinkpads are at least tactile
>not using old IBM thinkpads
PLEB
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Nice job regurgitating the shit you read online.
Ive owned a t420 (with old style kb) a t61p an r50, and t430/x230t with the new style.
The keyboard on the dell lat e7450 has better tactile feedback than all those. And this is coming from someone whos been on thinkpads for years.
stop looking at child porn, you fucking disgusting piece of shit.
tbqh
I picked up an x220 for ultra cheap recently,
mint condition. the low resolution does not bother me
0.0001 sheck lel's have been deposited in your acount
I wish i was getting paid to shill..
Sadly, It's not whats happening here.
>he does it for free
Where is your argument, OP?
If they're actually different than the keyboard I've used on the E5440, then I take it back. If not, then my point stands. The one on the E5440 was wobbly as fuck with no feedback.
what are you going to use it for user?
uni and stuff :3
when did you realize your post was as valuable as your life, user?
how much did you snag it for?
t540p has the worst screen i've ever used, worse than compaq displays from 1998, but i like it otherwise
Do people comment about it at all?
bout 150 dollars
nope, in fact thinkpads are like the second most common laptop at my uni, behind macbooks
Interesting, are the old classic keyboards still more popular than the chiclets?
unsure but I like the old style
>E5440
None of my keys are wobbly, and have really good feedback.
So maybe yours was one with a chinese knock off purchased from chinkbay
Why does chinkshit take so fucking long to arrive anyway? I can order stuff from the US and have it on my doorstep in the UK in like a week, China to the UK always takes like a month or more.
will this get shiny with my oily skin?
Why do you keep paying for cheapest shit tier economical shipping? If anything, it's the opposite for me. $10 USPS shipping takes an entire month to get to the UK while my AliExpress orders with free chink shit shipping get here in 9-30 days.
The palm rest shouldn't wear down too much but the keyboard is always replaceable.
get a x200, x220 or x230
they have a 720p screen or higher are cheap and easy to upgrade
>mfw
That nip makes me cream desu.
As an owner of a T440s the only bad thing with it is that w10 constantly uninstalls the T450 trackpad drivers.
Linux supports it natively though in new-ish kernels.
>haslel trash
lmao
220 or 230 are about 250 now. 12.5 inch i series
reeeeee
but thats ok tho so this is pretty neato. I just wonder how EliteBooks can not get greasy and shiny over time. Maybe the oleophobic coating? but thinkpads are water resistant still arent they?
only the keyboard is water resistant. And it's heavily questionable.
>I don't care much for the ips
But user, IPS for a laptop is one of the most important things, I'd say
If you use your laptop in not perfect conditions(like on a table) IPS helps a lot
yeah when the oleophobic coating can be worn to a point where body oils damage the keys i wouldnt trust it with a spill. The 'Book took a coffee cup to the face and still doesnt get grease stains for the trackpad and keyboard.
Why the fuck would you put the trackpad in upside down
I bought a refurb T440P about 2 weeks ago for $220 on ebay, got a $45 1080p IPS screen replacement with better color than stock.
Seriously guise, don't pay an extra $200 for a crappier IPS, the replacement is incredibly easy. Unsnap the bezel, 4 screws, and one cable.
You're cancer
my t440s died this morning turned on and after the lenovo logo it just black screens
help
Decent laptop, and battery life is okay if you replace them. With the extended battery, I get around 8 hours of work. It can theoretically last up to 14 hours, but I've never had the need to go without a charge that long.
Replaced the TouchPad immediately after I got it, and it has been my go to laptop since. Added an extra 250GB SSD to the m.2 socket that normally houses a mobile modem for LTE.
The machine is absolutely silent, and even under load won't get very loud.
I have the i7 meme dual core processor and 12GBs of RAM with 2 SSDs. Though it's by no means a fast machine in terms of raw power, and makes sacrifices in performance in favor of battery life, weight, and noise. Autodesk Fusion and AutoCAD seems to run well, but I haven't modeled anything serious on my laptop. It has trouble running Lightroom for some reason, though it runs other RAW editors just fine. Because of this, I usually do heavy work on my desktop and shitpost on my laptop.
It runs light games fine, like FTL. More performance heavy games, like CS:GO run at below 60 FPS on the lightest settings at any resolution. This is not a laptop for heavy tasks, but I didn't expect it to be. If you want this to be a mobile gaming rig, look somewhere else.
Keyboard is the best laptop keyboard currently available, but that doesn't really say much considering the current market. I'll be looking at the Retro ThinkPad when more news arrives.
All the pros and cons considered, I would still recommend this laptop. It is extremely reliable, and not once had I ran out of battery during the day. I mainly use it to browse the web, type emails, edit photos on the go, and talk on Discord and it does that job perfectly well.
Yeah but the 180 degree hinge just let's me tilt it any angle I want. I do see your point though you always don't have the space the open it that much
that's the correct way up
>index finger on left click
>middle finger on clit-mouse
>ring finger on right click
What kind of a freak are you
>middle/index on clit
>thumb on left click
>whatever for right click
>90%, 4h 20min
>20 min later
>15%, 57min
lenovo
p models going for 450-500 dollars on eBay
There's a reason; lack of percieved value.
enjoy your cucked applel wannabe keyboard
meh, not buying another laptop until ryzen mobile.
feels like one too...
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[Posted from my Thinkpad X220]
26.06.2017
Flying through with my superior t510
>1080p
hi grandpa
i'm not buying another laptop until ARM
>ARM
lel
Your shit-res display is bad and you should feel bad.
1366 x 768
It could be worse.
>It could be worse.
It could be better though
>61088699
Enjoy your shit-tier PWM raping your eyes in secret
You can blacklist Windows from updating drivers.
howtogeek.com
Can you name a single alternative that can beat it for the price?
Sounds like it might just be what I'm looking for in a laptop. Thanks for sharing, user.