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™
yes get a 1080ti and u will have the best laptop ever,just stick that inside and boom there u go
Christopher Nguyen
need a laptop for watching anime and browsing Sup Forums, but I'm poor as fuck. Should I get the x200 or is it a meme?
pls no bully
Hudson Gomez
t440p
Christopher Jones
not a meme i picked mine up for 180 and an extra 100 for the ssd
Matthew Harris
>/tpg/ on irc.rizon.net this does not exist, may i ask why?
Tyler Wright
I love my T420 Im told the 1600x900 panel upgrade is garbage... is it true? I got a caddy for it, even tho i dont even have a drive to put in it... yet. If i ever need a cpu upgrade i can always get a cheap one from ebay. This laptop is gonna be my best friend for the next 10 years. :>
Julian Flores
Why do any of you buy these 16:9 pieces of trash like X220 or T470 instead of a real Thinkpad like an X61 or a restored glorious T70? It's like you don't even understand why anyone wanted a Thinkpad in the first place and you're just following the maymay like cargo cultists.
Camden Hernandez
Is there a way to get a 1600x900 IPS display for the T450? I really want one of these but I'd hate to go for 1080p if I upgrade to IPS because then I'd have to use scaling which would render Linux unusable...
Chase Gonzalez
Will be in the market for a new laptop soon. May wait until Black Friday but could buy now. Not looking for a large form factor or price point if I can help it; the 11e seems to meet my needs so far. Won't be intended for games but I might find myself playing Doom in bed. A quick skim of customer reviews are mildly concerning. Any experiences with this model?
Charles Lewis
Don't buy it, it's as simple as that. Go on ebay and find any T series or X series that costs the same as this piece of junk and I guarantee you it's going to be better in every regard.
Henry Sullivan
>the 1600x900 panel upgrade is garbage it's garbage in terms of image quality but the 1366x768 screen is too so it's the same garbage but higher resolution
Wyatt Butler
because believe it or not, some people need actual processing power and support
Oliver Perez
Is a 12.5" laptop too small for use as the only computer?
Angel Cruz
depends on what you do.
shitposting and anime, sure. regular web browsing (facebook, youtube, news), pretty much anything productive, unlikely.
Get an X series if you like that size but if it's to be your only computer buy a 24" or 27" screen for use at home.
Landon Roberts
just make it 2 inches larger and make your problems go away.
Ryder Howard
that's what my ex-wife said before running off with that tyrone guy... :( but how was I supposed to do that?
Ethan Lee
dunno... only thing I know it I wanna be 12 inches deep in that pussy
Josiah Parker
Grabbed a T520 to give away as a gift. I've never had a Thinkpad, but I get why they're so popular. This one came with an ssd and a 1080p screen, I'm not sure I'll be able to give it up. Also, the keyboard light is very handy and the keyboards on these are as good as advertised.
Oliver Hernandez
you don't really notice once you start use it
David Anderson
Is using the expresscard to add a usb 3.0 port on a T420 a terrible idea? Is there a better solution?
Charles Gutierrez
I think it's a good solution
Brandon Foster
not a meme before i even started paying attention to this board, i got a job that involves refurbing laptops. I fell in love with thinkpads through experience.
best built mobile machine ever made, i dont give two fucks if you call me a shill either.
Logan Morgan
Get a docking station.
Evan Smith
I've got a T420 with a quad i7. Should I use it for a hackintosh? I'm tired of Windows and MS tech in general, and I get annoyed at Linux for various reasons.
My question is mostly technical: will there be too many headaches if I try to hackintosh my 420?
Jack Hernandez
Is the W510 the biggest lemon of the recommended thinkpads?
I got mine a few years ago and I am happy with how it runs but trying to find a reasonably priced replacement OEM battery or 1080p screen seems impossible.
Have I left it too late to try find good spare parts for this machine? It feels like the market has dried up for them
Michael Stewart
>tfw bidding on so many ThinkPads simultaneously that I can't even afford to win them all LIVIN ON THE EDGE
James White
Get a T70. It even comes with better customer service.
Jaxon Clark
Really wanted a T series but none of them have IPS. Is IPS just something that's really wanted for low resolutions?
Ethan Collins
Nevermind I posted this by accident, was looking at recommended T's and didn't see they had IPS screens
Henry Peterson
That being said, I'm having trouble sorting out screens for the T series. I'm following the ktgee guide from OP and I want a T series with a screen that doesn't have that nasty thing where the screen changes colors significantly when you look at it from an angle. Some say TFT, some say TFT IPS, which confuses me because I thought you had to pick either or.
Josiah Bennett
No, it's next-next-next levels of easy but you'll need to get a Dell DW1510 compatible wlan card and flash a new bios for the wlan card to work.
The harder part is messing with the VM to make the bootable usb stick.
Julian Morgan
>calling this a thinkpad What were they thinking?
Wyatt Reyes
What 1600mHz DDR3L are you guys buying?
Colton Anderson
Found an R40e in decent condition. Just needs a power supply. Is it worth it, even as a crapbox I play old PC games on?
Gabriel Young
>R series lolno
Owen Baker
Would you recommend the Thinkpad 13? Or is it a meme?
Cameron Kelly
Fuck off shill Go wait for your touchpad
Chase Myers
I doubt chinks can do onsite replacements user.
Matthew Wilson
>no trackpoint Not a thinkpad. Also >playing doom I hope you mean the original
Chase Cruz
No its not if we're talking about the X220 or X230
Lincoln Perry
Enjoy user You got a good one
Parker Smith
The only other solution is to get a newer laptop So yeah an expresscard adapter is a pretty good solution
Nicholas Fisher
Messing around with Windows 7 on my T420. I can't get the resolution right at all. At 1600x900, everything is tiny to the point of hurting my eyes or being completely illegible. Lowering the resolution in Windows just makes everything warped and blurry. Artificially enhancing the size of everything by 25% makes everything look cartoonishly huge and some things don't fit on the screen at all.
Anything to be done about this? Is this what everyone meant when they said that these things have shit screens? The picture quality is nice to me, just can't get the size of things right.
Pic is of 100% resolution.
Blake Wilson
>I'd hate to go for 1080p if I upgrade to IPS because then I'd have to use scaling which would render Linux unusable... What retarded meme is this?
Easton Rodriguez
Disregard this post, I am completely retarded
Julian Phillips
I have an R61i with an 1680x1050 screen (got it off a broken R61 for 15€), the speakers are much better than you can get e.g. on a X-series, the keyboard is a'rite but the plastics are kinda creaky. I'd recommend this one but not R4x or R5x because no sata - no ssd.
Colton Gray
What happened user
Camden Butler
I need a laptop for college, a 1080p display is kind of necessary if possible, is the L series a meme?
finally pulled the trigger on a T440s with i5, 8gigs, 250GB SSD and HD+ screen for 350 euros since i'm not in burgerland where everything is a deal, did i fuck up?
Jose Cooper
It does it's just that it's pretty much dead
Luis Lewis
Kind of but not as much as some people make it out to be If you're insisting on something new go for it but if you wanna go for best price I'd say get a T530 and build up from there
Carson Russell
Well Intel is a meme themselves so I wouldn't recommend recommend anything newer than ivy bridge personally
Landon Flores
Too big
Matthew Roberts
Is a x220 with an i5, 8GB RAM and 128GB SSD worth it for ~250 dollars? In good condition.
Michael Kelly
Getting delivered tomorrow, pretty damn excited. i5 with 256Gb SSD, along with 16gb Ram.
What's your routine when you get a new machine /tpg/?
Nathaniel King
I install my linux of choice.
Blake Thomas
I figured that goes without saying, after that I mean.
Where do you live? Thinkpads seem to be more expensive here in Sweden (or Europe in general) than they are in the US.
Andrew Clark
Are there any compact chargers for thinkpads? I can live with carrying around my x230 but it's annoying having the big charger
Gabriel Ross
65W adapter is big? How about you stop being a manlet?
Adam Mitchell
That's pretty much the lowest they go for here so yeah do it. It's what I paid for mine
Unless you want an X260, there's one up for about $100 more
Jaxson Edwards
Sweden, actually.
Cameron Cox
1. start up to see if works 2. if yes do the upgrades I want (RAM, SSD mostly) 3. Install Loonix
Oliver King
So it's worth it? Will I want to upgrade the screen at some point?
Cameron Miller
>mfw manlets struggling to carry their 3lb 12.5" laptop with a 6cell battery and 65w charger >mfw these people spend money on 4cell batteries because even the 6cell is too heavy for their bitch arms
Angel Davis
I got pissed off with it (X230) eventually and got an X301. 13.3" is a really nice screen size, especially in 16:10.
Hudson Mitchell
Name of each in order of taking them out of the bag?
John Russell
You will want an IPS panel, yes
Jacob Brooks
I am gonna assume
X201 T420 T530/W530 T400?
Andrew Gutierrez
...
Xavier Nguyen
X201s T420 W520 15" T60
Adam Hill
yesYESYES FHD IS RATHER RARE and quad i7 dont have any cooling problems, neither do the novideo graphics have any. but they're unusable for gaming (except very light stuff like 2hu, osu and maybe lol/csgo) and under linux (because no video drivers for linux (haha nice pun)). you didnt specify the amount of ram though. with that 1year warranty I'd go for it.
Zachary Howard
It's an auction and I thought 400 was maybe too high of an bid. Shit, how much shoukd I bid?
Lincoln Scott
why meme? scaling is shit on linux currently and at native res text and screen elements would be too small
Ryder Green
I use a 1080p monitor and my font rendering is flawless. I'd show you but I'm on vacation right now and don't have access to my desktop. I even used a 1440p monitor for a while, too, and never had any problems.
Debian testing with awesome wm, btw.
Eli Brooks
>font rendering is flawless that's not the problem here. Scaling messes up GTK application.
Chase Morris
Is processor power and usb 3.0 the only benefit of a 430 over a 420?
Easton Powell
In what way? I'm genuinely curious because I haven't noticed anything.
Christopher Torres
last time I tested it, maybe last december, I had some very sever issues. for example on GTK3 applications the menu bar was completely fucked with all the different options being displayed in the same place only slightly offset. some buttons were hidden behind window borders. stuff like that
Adam Reed
current price+20 and if someone offers more just go for 400
Christian Morgan
ok, now i see why you don't remove the sticker in the touchpad in the t430
gonna have to look around for a sticker :(
Leo Ramirez
Weird. I've never had anything like that happen to me and I use GTK2/3 applications. What distro do you use?
Camden Powell
tried Debian, Ubuntu and Manjaro. I just wanted to find one that works, I like to make it my own anyways so it didn't really matter where I started. I also tried different DEs though I knew it shouldn't make a difference.
I might test scaling in a virtual machine on my desktop again some time soon though
Chase Williams
I'll inspect the hell out of it because it's used instead of refurbished. I'll install Ubuntu because there's no Windows key. Then I'll bring it with me on a 3 day vacation and see if I like the X230's keyboard or not. Then I'll order some upgrades. The mem/storage is low on what I bought but it has the i5 3360 rather than 3320 so I thought it'd be a neat step up without going for the i7 which were more expensive.
I plan to play some games on it, hopefully Pathologic HD and stuff. I don't know how Wine works so maybe I'll also install my old WinXP disc or find the cheapest Win7/10. I've never had a laptop before so I'm stoked. I can finally use a computer outside...
Ryan Williams
I'm looking for a new IPS display for my x220. Is this a good IPS screen?
Thanks, I might go through with it this week if I can figure out how to get an OS image and burn it.
Jackson Reed
You can delete everything after .html, luddite.
Ethan Evans
Just got an X60S for $20 with no hard drive. Did I get a deal?
Going to put an ssd in it.
Is it possible to upgrade the screen?
Ethan Jenkins
You got a deal there friend... If I could only get one that cheap. I can't seem to find one below 80€
Dylan Hughes
I'm reading through the info in the OP and Thinkpads seem really great, is there a downside? For someone who wants a long lasting laptop for general use they seem perfect. I'll be looking to purchase my second laptop ever soon and I can't find anything wrong with Thinkpads. Also curios why are they so cheap? I got a Chromebook (pls no bully, needed something that had no access to vidya for awhile) for $250 and it seems I could have gotten a MUCH better Thinkpad for that amount.
Bentley Lee
Windows boot manager keeps overwriting GRUB
Wat do?
Ryder Allen
Chromebooks are complete ass I have no idea why someone would even think of buying one.
Sell it and buy a x220 for $100
Thomas Myers
Never bought a laptop before, didn't do enough research/read the wrong websites and made a poor decision. Spent the time I've had it to learn a little though and I don't plan on making the same mistake twice.
