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>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™
First for Why the fuck did you stop linking to the previous thread
Connor Gray
PREVIOUS THREAD
John Gray
kek
Charles Thomas
because the previous thread didn't link to the previous previous thread
Elijah Nelson
Don't bully my X230 please.
Oliver Barnes
was in the last thread asking about upgrades, I just bought a refurbished t400
what did you guys pay for yours (without any upgrades of course)
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Anthony White
weakest stupidest excuse ever retard
Matthew Wright
pls respond
Angel Bell
How much are you willing to pay?
Christian Flores
never stop looking at previous thread till its archived kiddo
Eli Flores
It's going to be my first and only laptop so I'm pretty flexible with the budget, I'd say max 600 euros, that's a lot for Thinkpads right? If it's less than that I'm going to add an SSD, if it's not included.
Why an "s" model though? Aren't they just slimmer but worse in other aspects?
Cooper Miller
when you guys replace the hdd with an ssd do you normally switch out the disk drive for the old hdd for dual drives or just let it be?
Jonathan Walker
whats the cheapest thinkpad with oled screen?
Jace Fisher
msata ssd + ssd + ultrabay 1TB porn storage ftw
Gabriel Roberts
can't see what's worse, doesn't run hot and you still get 6-8 hours with that model.
Isaac Gonzalez
Thanks, it looks good. How's the keyboard and the touchpad? I noticed there are no physical buttons on the touchpad so I might have to change it.
Mason Ramirez
>oled screen On a business laptop
Joshua Mitchell
you can easily swap it with a 450s touchpad
Joshua Brown
>P51 arrives today >can't wait to LARP as a high powered business workstation user
Gabriel Lee
I'm gonna be using Stata in my coming semester, and I'm looking for a new laptop. Old one is quite literally falling apart after years of use. I've heard good things about Lenovo, so I'm looking a decent Lenovo laptop for Stata.
Jordan Smith
>high powered business workstation user use thin clients to servers.
Kayden Torres
get a W model with a QM cpu
Jeremiah Lewis
Starting programming at Uni, but the problem is I'm from Finland and all the cheap thinkpads I find have US keyboards. Are there any cheap Nordic ones or am I screwed? Need 8GB RAM and decent enough battery life to survive full days at uni.
Tyler Powell
there are plenty of cheap refurbs from Sweden where I live, you should find one easily, don't you nordniggers have like a craigslist or something?
Blake Young
Finnish Craigslist is dead, random Finnish sites don't seem to have much. All newer ones and much more expensive.
That one looks a bit expensive once you add RAM and SSD, but will look around on that site.
500-600e at most. Been checking a bunch of Finnish sites but forgot about muro, will check. Some site had a bunch of otherwise decent ones but they all had a 3 hour battery life. I ended up looking at UK ones also since the keyboards are similar enough that I could just swap the language in OS settings and try to memorize the special stuff.
Angel Torres
Why would you need an extra 3.3V power supply when you already have a Pi? A small flash chip draws fuck all, the Pi's 3.3V regulator should be able to handle it.
Grayson Peterson
>swap the language in OS settings and try to memorize the special stuff. just a regular cheap thinkpad and a new keyboard if thats such a big deal
Adam Torres
>TFW using an ultra thin client as server
Christian Hall
>s but he said good cpu, not soldered ulv shit
Daniel Smith
>500-600e at most
In that case you could afford something from vstore.fi and get a one year warranty as well. Of course they're pretty expensive to be second hand but there's much less to worry about.
Cameron Fisher
Just buy a replacement keyboard. I have like 4 US keyboards laying around because i have to change them every time.
Josiah Russell
>I'm gonna shit on your recommendation instead of recommending something that I think it's better every time
Ryan Smith
>HD 3000 >drops frames when doing 1080 60
Christian White
change the s for a p, done
James Baker
Never even heard of such a site, looks pretty decent. Gonna look at these.
I could try this too, if it's not too complicated to change them. I found a cheap X1 Carbon on ebay with a UK keyboard. Just not sure which gen it is so no idea which keyboard replacement it needs.
Mason Green
T440p with touchpad swap and and quad core and whatever ips it supports if you want a good screen T430 with classic keyboard and quad core if you care more about the keyboard Get out of here nigger
William Thompson
whats everyones opinion on the $900 i5 x270
Grayson Allen
I paid less for a T420 on ebay. Under $80 dollars.
Grayson Jackson
Why would you willingly purchase a thinkpad with an inferior keyboard? I thought the whole point was the keyboard.
Gabriel Thompson
>MFW i'm really using an Hp thn client as a server
Surely can't be that bad for the price, right? I fell for so many Sup Forums memes I don't want to run into buyer's remorse again....
Bentley Price
they have quite a few differences, it depends what you want
Connor Bailey
eh if you don't need a better processor sure
I would prefer having the p version with socketed replaceable cpu and quad core options, optical drive slot for a second or third drive and that sweet 9-cell battery.
Liam James
University. X240 looks lighter and has a better battery life, not sure what other differences there are.
Colton Butler
How much better is the T400s compared to T400? Price difference is pretty big.
Brayden Martin
I needed a decent linux laptop with something better than a 720p screen for my bachelor's thesis (some code monkey Java EE shit). CPU power was secondary, I have a 13" MBP (non retina) with a 2.9GHz Core i7 with plenty of cpu power but a shitty, useless 720p screen.
What weirds me out a bit is the fact that I sold my 2012 11" MacBook Air (Core i5 1.7 GHz, 4GB memory, 64 GB of SSD storage and a 720p display) for 500 fucking mountain shekels whilst only paying 360 for that thinkpad...really makes you think.
Kevin Evans
it's worse
Carson Murphy
>tfw got an X230 for $75 >seller listed a bunch of issues >most weren't nearly as bad as he said they were >laptop is in near perfect condition ^_^
Brandon Butler
Just size and battery life. I can't remember if the T440 has a CD drive.
Alexander Perry
Hey CIA niggers, I need to get a laptop for my studies. Would you recommend a Thinkpad Ultrabook T440? There's a company selling used business laptops and they got it on sale for 520€. 8GB of DDR3 RAM and a 128GB SSD (probably swapping it for a bigger HDD).
Charles Robinson
no >128GB SSD (probably swapping it for a bigger HDD) why the hell would you do that retard
Daniel Perez
>520€ look my post Even in Mountainisrael you will pay less than 520 euro...520 euro for a T440 seems way overpriced.
William Sanders
128GB feels pretty darn small. The studies include a ton of media shit in the future too. I can't really find it cheaper domestically.
Samuel Green
x220 owner here Laptop is smol, cute and does the job really well. Can compile stuff pretty fast
Bentley Thompson
requirements: >6hr+ battery life >temps under 50C-55C >weight ~2kg >emulate ps1/2, play classic pc games >stream content (720p)
unimportant: >build and durability >*nix support (it will run bsd/win10) >keyboard, track-pad, track-point >screen >ports and connections >upgradeability (i will disassemble it once completely, clean it, upgrade it and leave it alone for a decade)
if you have something to recommend please state what you own and how long you have used it for. the laptop i will purchase will replace a 10 year old Toshiba (15.4", Core2 Duo, GM965 chipset) which is not worth upgrading due to weight and insufficient return on performance.
Jack Wilson
then get a bigger ssd or external hard drive or something, or just get a thinkpad that can hold two 2.5" drives (t440 is not one of them)
but downgrading from an ssd to an hdd is the worst thing you could do and you will immediately realize your mistake after you reinstall whatever OS you would have put on the HDD
Mason Walker
I've never had an SSD in my life user. While I agree that SSD is faster, I dunno if it would bother me to have an HDD. Prioritizing disk space over speed.
Charles Cooper
>I've never had an SSD in my life user.
that explains why you would make such a dumb decision
Leo Bell
>t440 either go t440p or x240, the rest are slimmer abominations between them that don't do anything better than these two
Xavier Long
Where do you live?
Isaac Morgan
Finland. Just noticed those posts by the other Finnish dude, so I'm kinda in the same boat with that guy. Also found this other store called teraset.net which seems to be carrying used business laptops for fairly good prices.
>hey look I spent all this time and money to turn a x230 into a x220, you're jealous right? right? lmao
Benjamin Garcia
>E450 "gaming laptop" for sale $250 >i3-4005U Dual Core Processor @ 1.7 Ghz base (Overclockable to 2.2 Ghz) >Intel® HD graphics 4400 >500 Gb storage >4Gb ram >gaming laptop
Christopher Thompson
my sister's laptop died, a fresh new t470 is in the mail, and out of the ashes of her old machine i have scrounged -6gbs of ddr3l (one 2gb dimm, one 4gb dimm) -32gb m.2 ssd -750gb HDD and some intel network adapter. i know i can use the 4gb dimm and the 750gb drive, but is the rest useful for my t420 (arriving in about a week)
Cooper Nelson
you can get a M.2 to 2.5" adapter
Eli Sullivan
not really, the t420 has an msata slot but doesn't have an m.2 slot
Joseph Turner
i got all the upgrades for free as a gift and it took me about 1 day to get it all working :^) plus x230 has better igpu and cpu so i get the best of both worlds
stay angery
thinkpads masterrace
Nicholas Sanchez
>i got all the upgrades for free as a gift sure you did
Robert Gutierrez
i did my homework on m.2 adapters and it looks like i can get an m.2 to msata adapter for like 10 bucks but it ships from chinkland so i'd get it in like 20 days
John Reyes
Using the trackpoint makes my finger sore after a while and it starts to hurt. My feminine hands can't handle something so masculine. I think I need to switch to a Mac instead.
Joseph Jackson
was a hand me down from a friend i only paid 150 for laptop refurb
Lincoln Bell
indeed you can but the m.2 ssd needs to be smaller than the msata adapter so size 2248 or smaller, otherwise it won't fit.
or just do this , the t420 can use 3 drives anyway
Chase Hughes
>was a hand me down from a friend sure it was
Oliver Evans
it's like half the length of most m.2 ssds i've seen, is that enough? this stuff is all coming from a haswell toshiba satellite, so it might even just BE msata, idk if haswell mobile supported m.2
Jack Gutierrez
I have both an x230 and x220 but I personally prefer my x230 since intel hd 4000 and desu the chicklet keyboard hate is a meme its not bad at all and it feels really nice imo
Why would you want to unlock bios? > making an x230 an x220 thats like making a rolex into a casio
Kayden Powell
measure it, if it's 22mm x 42mm it should be alright
and yes haswell does, the t440p uses an m.2 ssd
Evan Jones
First for Fujitsu Lifebook, got a p702 from 2011, still a workhorse and can manage simpler games on lower settings. Comfy as can be.
Isaiah Wright
A) this dummy doesn't even use airport bombing watches, everyone please ridicule him now B) this isn't equivalent at all, as the x230's keyboard is, or so i've been told, not as good as the x220's
Gavin Morgan
That's a very unusual price, unless it was in particularly poor condition
Robert Watson
>Why would you want to unlock bios?
use 3rd party battery use dual band AC card disable Turbo Boost so I instantly get -10 C during cpu loads switch alpm mode from slumber to partial if you got a ssd disable intel ME features modify active trip points for the fan disable event log set ram to 1866mhz
Ryan Rodriguez
My X201T shipped today, I'm getting hype. First Thinkpad
Kayden Hughes
How much would you pay for a t430 with Nvidia dGPU (NVS 5400M>? I found one (model 2349-G4G) with 4gb ram, 320gb hdd, i5 3320M, the standardintel HD 4000 iGPU and a somewhat bad battery that lasts 2 hours for €260. Is it too much? I can buy another one that's basically the same without the Nvidia GPU for €160.
Jose Murphy
the nvs is a meme why would you game on a thinkpad, the 4400 is decent enough for old games
Lincoln Reyes
*HD4000
Jaxon Gomez
Why the tablet version? I really regret getting the X220t, screen is nice but it feels really flimsy compared to the normal one and the touch input isn't what I would consider useful
Sebastian Wilson
Is T440 that bad? I heard x240 has some end/insert button weirdness and I'll need those.
Ryder Morales
Did you buy the T440? Noticed it's gone from the site I was looking at. Other Finn here.
