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 IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad T, X, and W/P SERIES, HP Elitebook (2570p, 8770W, 2170p), and Dell Latitude/Precision (E6430, E6440, E7440) if you want the Real Business Experience™
just got a t420 what should I upgrade first to the laptop?
Juan Reyes
Rosetta Stone English.
Jaxson Jenkins
Install Gentoo
Michael Collins
Just got my first T420 today and the CPU/GPU temperatures are disturbing. I have the i7-2620 processor and running Windows 7. In five minutes of turning it on and opening Firefox to install RealTemp, I was at 87 C. Left idling with a Firefox tab open it was consistantly at 60 C. I tried downloading TPFancontrol and the temperature shot up to 95 C, so I just panicked and force shut down. Again, it was only on for about five minutes total.
I'm hesitant to even try reapplying thermal paste and cleaning it now, can't imagine it will make that much of a difference, what do? Should I just try to return it?
Nicholas Gray
What's the oldest ThinkPad you use regularly?
Jonathan Gutierrez
SSD
Henry Baker
x60. Still great in the current year.
Luke Gonzalez
What are you expecting in the mail, /tpg/?
Robert Gomez
Get an SSD if you don't already have one, that's the most important thing
Logan Nguyen
What's the point of owning an old thinkpad if you're scared to tinker with it? Change the thermal paste and clean the decade's worth of dust out of the heatsink and it should be fine
Joshua Harris
Get a compressor and blast that motherfucker clean.
Cooper Collins
>tfw no retro thinkpad
Ethan Ortiz
>overpaying for shit on purpose
Camden Davis
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Levi Ortiz
>not paying a premium for memes
Blake Peterson
You're right, I just get really nervous and avoidant about starting things for some reason, then trick myself into giving up entirely. I always think I'll fuck up and somehow set it on fire. Taking it apart now.
Luis Bailey
>buying a bigger meme than the entire thinkpad meme itself Post your second gen X1 carbon too user
Evan White
does anyone have the picture of that thinkpad with the velcro back and a pineapple stuck to it?
Levi Wright
Grabbed a T60p outta the Trash, working battery and HDD. 1920x1200 looks great. Fantastic condition.
If i remember correctly the HDD bay is SATA2 speeds but the ultrabay isn't? Other than Ram, anything worth a upgrade?
Aiden Anderson
would I be a retard if I brought a new T470 w/ FHD for 800?
Mason Carter
There's something wrong with that, i run my i7 2640m T420 with the fan turned off when the cpu temp is
Thomas Young
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Jeremiah Cox
T440p to replace my T420.
can't wait for $150 or $200 in shipping and import fees alone
Luke Mitchell
user don't tell me you like to get blacked
Jeremiah Nguyen
You'd be one if that 800 doesn't include an extended battery
Josiah Perez
Do all ThinkPad users rummage in garbage bags or did you somehow see this T60p in plain sight?
Brandon Cruz
the 6-cell? On their website its a discount if you go for the 6-cell over the 3.
Cameron Reed
Grow a pair and grab a screwdriver worst thing I ever did to mine was put the screws back in the wrong place
Brayden Cooper
72wh one especially
Adrian Williams
Plain sight. Company offers free electronics recycling. The sheer amount of working computers I get handed is ridiculous. MacBooks, Elite-Books, Thinkpads etc. I once had to recycle a liquid cooled i7 build with some SLI Nvidia cards because "it blue screens on me so I replaced it"
Levi Miller
Is it the retarded bottom protrusion one? Or does it come out like the back?
I don't want my battery to make the laptop tilt.
Jeremiah Peterson
X1 Carbon owner here and I demand respect.
Sebastian Collins
Drop hinges. How would it ever come out the back Also 25+ hours and slightly better typing angles are a positive user
Brandon Young
I finally bought a X220, it should arrive in a few days. What should I check it for, besides Computrace?
Brayden Cooper
does anyone have link to the bios for t420 that allows any wireless card? Also is the minipcie slot under the ram door useful for anything? Does it support ssds?
Ill have to think on it then. How bad would battery life be on the 3cell?
William Moore
ssd
Ryder Cruz
>not reading what I told you >rossman posting user please read what I wrote again Also check notebookcheck or something It's only 25 dollars anyway I'd rather go big
Evan Morgan
they can't extend rearward because of the new drop hinge design, you also can't put ports on the back of the laptop with this, the old design the hinge was on 'top' of the laptop
and it literally says the battery capacity >3-cell 24Wh >6-cell #1 48Wh >6-cell #2 72Wh
Wh is Watt-hours. The 3-cell gets 1/3 the life of the big one.
Personally the extended batteries is never something I have or would ever compromise on.
Xavier Stewart
I like it a lot more than my mac pro.
Jonathan Murphy
When you've just finished upgrading your T530 and now feel empty on the inside
Brody Garcia
Please tell me where the fuck you live, holy shit.
Grayson Rodriguez
my.mixtape.moe/yvasab.zip and yes, i have my main msata ssd as only drive there.
It's originally meant for wwan cards though, you can also use it for eGPU iirc
John Ortiz
ah hurp durp Im retarded.
I guess Ill just go for the bigger one. Meh, Ill just get used to the elevated angle if its really that superior.
Brandon Gomez
Oh okay that's pretty neat then
Hunter Wilson
is the western digital one good?
Xavier Smith
Yeah, looking at it now, it seems there was somehow no thermal paste on it at all, and I have never seen a fan as dirty as this in my life. I swear it even has dog hair embedded in it. It's like the damn thing was left in the corner on the floor of a musty library closet for eight years.
Part of the optical drive and underneath the keyboard is also a little bit rusty, the arrow keys are sticking a little and making loud clicking noises when depressed. Hopefully that can be fixed by cleaning as well. Wish I hadn't throw out my spare keyboard.
Wyatt Bailey
thanks for the help! can I flash this with linux or do I need windows.
Connor Russell
no
Cooper Martin
>mac pro, 1st gen x1, 5th gen x1
Joshua Johnson
then which one that is 250 gb?
Justin Phillips
i did it with windows in a small partition because it seemed like the most straightforward way to do it
also if you're changing the bios remember to change the default bios boot logo for an Akarin image because she a qt
Bentley Bailey
samsung 850 evo
Caleb Nguyen
Other pre 2000 thinkpad users, is your machine capable of proper screen resolution scaling?
My 380ED wont scale when in 640x480, only makes a little box in the center of the screen
Eli Carter
The Pastebin link on the sticky lists an Alienware screen mod for the T420. Has anyone here tried one out? I can't bear the screen on my computer and desperately want to change it
Angel Morgan
Really? Someone in /tpg/ told me the t420 wwan slot couldn't take an msata.
Grayson Powell
yes
It's capped to SATA2 speeds though, unlike the main HDD slot and optical drive slot which can do SATA3 speeds.
Aiden Cook
I don't have it personally but it's pretty good
But it's also glossy
Levi Morales
ah, then I'm probably be better of with a regular SSD and an HDD in the optical drive. Why did you do that? did you just happen to have a spare msata ssd?
Carson Watson
send the thinkpad back, get a refund. As the unholiest tripfag of Sup Forums I recommend you buy a mac, get the fuck out of /tpg/ and post on BTFO window threads
T61 but I'm surprised on the screen delay, I don't remember how bad it was.
My 380Z did that too, but I never was able to figure out how to install windows on that device. It might be a loose screw... I had removed one screw on a 770 I've had and the screen is just gray... lol
Mason Edwards
>did you just happen to have a spare msata ssd? Yes this is one of the reasons but it doesn't bother me because i don't notice the difference in daily usage, my desktop has a SATA3 SSD and it's the same shit.
Anthony Allen
you can use 3 drives at the same time
three drives full of anime
Nathan Ortiz
Looking to get a new laptop(Current main laptop is X140e, which is nice for light tasks) Budget: $ >500 Location: US, TX Size: 13'' to 17''(unsure) Performance: would like dedicated GPU but unsure Other requirements: I'm a CS/InfoSec student. I got to security competitions, do password cracking, digital forensics, report writing, penetration testing, movie watching and gayming. I'm thinking a T or W series, used on ebay.
what do yall think?
Ian Walker
That looks usable at the very least. I don't care if it is glossy. The current screen is almost unusable. Colours are washed out at any angle except head-on, and the screen takes many seconds to display colours properly.
Which specific Alienware screen should I look for and what's the resolution? Can I find it on Aliexpress?
Anthony Martin
>Budget: $ >500 >greater than 500
Cooper Brooks
Got an x230 i5, 8gb ram ready to go for $175
Should I pull the trigger? Should I lowball to $150?
Hunter Bennett
sorry im retarded
Austin Taylor
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Gabriel Morris
I don't understand why everything has to have a drop hinge now. I like my normal hinges and my normal port placement.
Christian Peterson
It's $25 user, is it worth the risk of losing a good deal for a computer you would enjoy for such a small amount?
Jaxson Johnson
new wireless card for my t420, pack of trackpoint nubs, msata ssd, slice battery, extra charger
Logan Wood
I did it bros, I have a t430 coming in a few days, you guys wouldn't meme me would you?
Liam Reyes
Does someone use t430 with i5 3320m and 8GB for programming in vs/unity. Could it work ?
Carson Adams
>ywn own this beauty
Owen Thomas
no it will trigger world war 3
Michael Powell
/tpg/ I did it, I bought a brand-new T460 from ebay for about 500 eurodydoos, slapped a SSD on it and I could not be happier. What have I been missing all my life? Is this the thinkpad experience? I love it
Luis Smith
: / I'm asking about the performance
Henry Gomez
Are msata's worth getting? Or are they overpriced for bad performance? Thinking about getting one for my t420.
Justin Reed
only get one if you plan on using 3 drives at the same time or want to have the optical drive slot and the main hdd slot empty
Christopher Young
I bought an x220 about a week ago. Out of the box worked fine the battery life wasn't crazy but it was running well off the cord. Today when I went to open up my laptop it refused to boot unless I put the power cord in. My battery just stays at 63% and windows is telling me it's plugged in and not charging is all. Is this some sort of software issue or am I looking at buying a replacement battery so early on.
Aaron Garcia
No, get a Samsung 850 or an Intel equivalent. Samsung is much better though, since they fabricate everything rather than just shoving together parts like Intel does.
Christian Richardson
>buying second hand memepad >run game >heats up >smells like boiling cum-dick >cum crusts
Jackson Anderson
Do the T60 and T61 use the same type of ram? I have 2x2GiB sticks in my T60 and 2x1GiB sticks in my T61 and I'd rather swap em entirely because I don't really need more than 1.5GiB on my T60
Connor Davis
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Joseph Miller
thoughts on the t61?
Tyler Smith
my thinkpad arrives soon and i can't wait to get comfy and meme with it
Parker Ramirez
Is this piece of shit worth anything?
Can I sell it for enough to buy the new halo game?
Logan Rivera
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Jackson Davis
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Justin Mitchell
>oh hey bro you mind if we sit... OOHHHHHhhhh FUCK DUDE! Is that a fucking x230?! No way, brah! And... my goodness! Is that a real x220 keyboard you're flocking in its sockin? That's fucking scandatious bombatious, my man. I just got 32 gig RAM in my littl beast, dude. Bro, what GNU slash Linux distro do I see there? Hang on let me look, bro. Oh okay, bro, okay bro, ubuntu is pretty gnarly but, ya know, I'm more of a freeBSD kind of guy. Anyway, dude, my squad and I need to fly so catch ya on the flip side, bro.
Nathan Parker
just bought a x230, 8gb ram 180ssd i5 for 280AUD. Did i do good Sup Forums?
Justin Cox
How did you do that?
I got a x230 with 500gb HDD, 4gb memory for $270
Tyler Jenkins
What accessories you use to get comfy thinkpad experience? I was thinking of getting a ring mouse, to minimize stress on my wrist.
Xavier Fisher
ebay. just kept watching and found a deal.
just did a quick search, best i just found was $330
