Is this what peak budget performance looks like?

Is this what peak budget performance looks like?

T430 is.

Unfortunately that will probably be the last great used Thinkpad.

What is T440p?

People dickride T420 and T430 too much
The screens are fucking terrible and the keyboards too wobbly
T60/T61 were the last great thinkpads

>no numpad

>16:9
No thanks, I'll stick with my EliteBook 8740W.

It's what peak hardware DRM looks like.

well... I love my T420 :>

If you want to spend more than a used old thinkpad costs (like between 4-500 usd) what is the best option?

I like my x230 but hate the screen res. And no I don't want to do that 1080p mod.

>If you want to spend more than a used old thinkpad
A newer thinkpad.
/thread.

where in the fuck did you get a used thinkpad for 4 usd?

That's not W530.

X220*

Where the fuck do I get a battery for my T60?

Fuck off gramps

Fix the one you have instead.

>A newer thinkpad.
Bad advice. New thinkpads are shit, and doesn't have anything that seperates it from buying any other new laptop.

Buy an old thinkpad and upgrade it till you spend 500.

?

This
I got a new 9-cell one for $30

Oh hey I bought one of those today. Refurbished though.

Where?

New "thinkpads" are just cheap chinktops, made by a company that doesn't understand IBM's vision. Even the X220 and X200 have some pretty abysmal flaws.

you do have a battery, i assume?
find the defective cell, the one that is below 2.8v, remove it and either replace it, by a similar cell, theyre pretty much all the same and independent from eachother so it doesnt really matter. Or you can attempt to resurect the "dead" cell by boosting it, as people have done in the past.

Like what?

>ITS CHINESE! NO BUY PL0X
My T420 chinkpad is made of glory and awesome and i dont care for which multinational's logo is on my machine.

I believe that is shorthand for 400 to 500 not 4 to 500

meh

Who the fuck wants a numpad on a laptop?

Core2Duos are too slow nowadays. Sorry.