/tpg/ - ThinkPad General

Previous thread: 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 if you want the Real Business Experience™

Recommended IBM models:
X60, X61, T60, T61, 860, Transnote, PC110

Recommended old models:
X200, W500

Recommended modern models:
X220 - 12", 768x1366, cheap and light
T420 - 14", 900x1600, easy to obtain, ideal size, socketed CPU, Ivy Bridge installable after Coreboot flash
T520 - 15", 1080p, Quadcore-CPUs
W520 - 15", 1080p, Desktop Replacement, 32GB RAM possible, USB 3.0

Last good models:
X230 - 12", USB 3.0, IPS option avaiable, classic keyboard installable
T440p - 14", last ThinkPad to have replacable CPUs, 1080p IPS displays avaiable
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Why ThinkPad?
>Used machines are plentiful and cheap
>Excellent keyboards - tactile feel and quiet
>Great durability: chassis uses a magnesium rollcage for structural integrity, with high quality plastic body panels
>Utilitarian design: e.g. indicator LEDs, 7 row keyboard layout on older models
>Docking stations that easily turns your laptop into a desktop
>Easy to repair, upgrade and maintain thanks to readily available service manuals for every model, spare parts are easy and cheap to obtain
>The best trackpoint (that red thing in the middle of the keyboard), great for those who type a lot or hate swiping their fingers all over a touchpad
>Excellent GNU/Linux & *BSD support

Used ThinkPad Buyers Guide:
ktgee.net/tpg

New guides by xsauc:
dankpads.com

ThinkWiki - Info on ThinkPads and running GNU/Linux on them:
thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkWiki

ThinkPad service guides w/ tutorial videos:
lenovoservicetraining.com/

Other urls found in this thread:

imgur.com/a/NlepZ
biosimage.booru.org/index.php
pastebin.com/JVwVGVTW
reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/76rv7s/day_4_of_t25retro_ownership_screen_failure/
youtube.com/watch?v=EyXLu1Ms-q4
pcsupport.lenovo.com/au/en/solutions/migr-75238
ebay.com/itm/Ultrabay-III-3-2nd-Hdd-Caddy-For-Lenovo-ThinkPad-T420-T520-W520-T420i-SATA-3-0-/271961670778?hash=item3f522dc47a:g:Q7IAAOSwRQlXgDhb
cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core2-Duo-P8400-vs-Intel-Core-i5-M-520/m307vsm812
ebay.com/itm/Lenovo-Professional-Backpack-Lenovo-ThinkPad-Professional-Backpack-/181849635560
twitter.com/SFWRedditVideos

is there something like the X230t, but with better specs? It's literally the perfect laptop for me, except for the screen, I want at least fhd.

>field too long

ThinkPad wallpaper collection:
imgur.com/a/NlepZ

ThinkPad BIOS splash screen collection:
biosimage.booru.org/index.php

EPP discount for new ThinkPads:
pastebin.com/JVwVGVTW

Sounds like you want an X1 Carbon.

I already got an Elitebook X360 which is amazing, but I'm looking for something cheap for fucking around with and installing loonix

Thinkpad thigh highs when?

Please be enough paste!

Be cute
Flirt with fags online
Hope one's nearby
If none are at least you get dick pics or vids
Its easy because fags in Sup Forums discord servers are desparate regardless of topic, got tons of boypussy pics from a runescape one, and back when discord wasnt a thing met ex in a /ic/ skype
People in actual gay servers are weirdos usually though. Someone wanted to castrate me

lenovo pls gibsemedats

all of pol would gladly do the same

Hello form /comfy/ville!

You can now be critical.

looks good
tfw live with a bf i met in a video game years ago

Yeah well fuck Sup Forums
Lot of "redpilled" traps though actually

way too much
also the MX2 is a shit paste, MX4 is much better just like everything else released this day and age.

>mx2
>instead of mx4 or as5
you fuged up

>end of last thread

Way too much?
This was what was on there.

i was thinking of ordering a x201, is it good?

cute

reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/76rv7s/day_4_of_t25retro_ownership_screen_failure/ HAHAHA

well that's just drowned, but you're still using too much, like half as much would do. But on the other hand they're delidded already and using too few might be fatal. You should really consider a better paste though.
Look at this to get an idea about just how thermal grease spreads:
youtube.com/watch?v=EyXLu1Ms-q4

This is a X200 with a X201 head. This machine is a frankenpad of Thinkpads... Nothing on this thing came together out of the box. It was pretty much a "build it yourself". But yeah, the X201 and X200 are great, comfy machines. X200 I prefer because of Libreboot, though.

it's a feature(tm)

>bought t420 off craigslist
>dude said the screen was 1600x900, but it's 1366x768
>didn't have the guts to tell him no when I was buying it because it was only $80
Fuck guys, how hard is a screen upgrade

>bought an x201 a few days ago
>recheck listing
>"160gb HDD"
>according to thinkwiki only SSDs come in 160
d-did i just get an ssd for cheap?

$15 HD+ cable + $40 or so screen but think of it this way, you now have the option to do the alienware mod (if you can find the specific screen models that is) and get way better colors and viewing angles than what the utter shit stock 1600x900 t420 screen had.

pcsupport.lenovo.com/au/en/solutions/migr-75238
Seems think wiki is wrong, user.

MX2 at the time I bought it was a lot cheaper.

You're going to get one of those two things:
>fhd
>something cheap
just get 900p or some shit

What is the best thinkpad for gayming again?

x41

W701ds

P70

what's there with 900p?

you mean P71

I mean the P81

>tfw live with a bf i met in a video game years ago
youre living the dream
>got tons of boypussy pics from a runescape one
i play runescape :3c

Bought an X220 but the included battery is only getting me like 2-4 hours depending on what I'm doing. If I buy a new battery, what kind of battery life should I expect?

Keep it up, this place needs to be cute.

1st gen X1 Carbon for $195 or T420 for $100?

I'm buying into the "muh freedoms" meme, so I want to install libreboot. Which thinkpad should I pick, X200 or T400? Pls, help a brainlet out.

X200, T400 if you need a touchpad instead of the clit

(what is libreboot, I googled it, does it just replace the bios screen or what)

i really want the p50, I can afford it with my student loan now I'm just waiting for one to appear on ebay.. is there any other better laptop I can get for ~£1k that's like a thinkpad or should i stay excited for the p50

Lurk more you fucking newfag.

Lmao look at this straightfag

It's more common than a buttplug at an iPhone release event.

does this shit fit my W530?
ebay.com/itm/Ultrabay-III-3-2nd-Hdd-Caddy-For-Lenovo-ThinkPad-T420-T520-W520-T420i-SATA-3-0-/271961670778?hash=item3f522dc47a:g:Q7IAAOSwRQlXgDhb

I have the old T440 and the only game I had a problem with was Doom.

I hesitate between x200, x201 and x220...

If you don't care about your privacy and doing a bunch of work to secure it, get the X220. If you actually care and are willing to go through bounds of work for Freedom, get a X200. The X201 I wouldn't really recommend, it's just my personal opinion of the device that makes me want to recommend it.

Why don't you like the 201?

Google says yes.

Why would you want a system with the shit specs of the 200 series but without the possibility of libreboot?

What do you want mean by my privacy ? They are not privacy safe by the bios ?

You buy the x201 but doesn't recommend it ?

For the turning screen, that is also touch?

Bringing an old Thinkpad back up to scratch, these parts look fine?

So x200 = x201 ?

Hard to flash ?

X220t

just bought an x60 and already regretting it

why did i buy this thing

X201 can't be flashed with Libreboot, the X200 can. It's not difficult if you have the right people guiding you. #libreboot on freenode is the best place for that.

>the absolute state of Sup Forums

Well you didn't say what one you have, but considering those are Lenovo parts and a Samsung SSD, you will probably be fine.
Post pics of the other things when you upgrade your PC :^)

>i play runescape :3c
Which? It was the /osrs/ one from /vg/
B-but nuscape doesnt seem so bad

No really, what good convertible is there with stylus input for ~300€ are there with 900p display are there?

Eh ... ?

Judging by your English, you're probably from a third world shithole.
Furthermore, you don't understand the difference between free (as in freedom) software and nonfree software, one of the most basic points of discussion on Sup Forums. You need to lurk more and stop posting.

You need to suck my black and fat haired balls and just get out to sleep

...

REKT

And what you want mean by freedom ? Only add third party hardware ?

>Eurofag
They DNE for you.

Why ?

Me or him

LURK MORE PAJEET

I put this glasses in the ass and pvssy of ya mum

woah
how did you swap out the screen and shit, are they just the same size?
does the touch and swivel still work?

Too bvsy to fvck ya mum

If you have to ask, then you.

cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core2-Duo-P8400-vs-Intel-Core-i5-M-520/m307vsm812

i have seen a lot of normies with this thing.

ebay.com/itm/Lenovo-Professional-Backpack-Lenovo-ThinkPad-Professional-Backpack-/181849635560

asked once and they said it came with the thinkpad.

s-should i get one?

yeah, i play osrs and i also browse that thread

because i don't need it, bought the laptop by impulse like a good goy

Check out this bad boy I found at the electronics recycling place

Id stay away from the discord then if you havent already learned that
Its really ungodly cancerous last time I was in there and most of the fags are psycho or insanely depressed

Oops, stupid chinkphone

no

yes

no

you faggots confuses me more than a pretty trap

yes

no

The part under my mousepad/ spacebar gets hot, why is that? it only started once i witch from winshit10 to xubuntu

Convinced friend to buy a refurbished X1, did i do good?

i7-3667U
240GB SSD

because lunix is shit

why is it s screen trapeze and not rectangle what kind of ascpect ratio is this?

Oi niggas, just caught a x200 with a 2.6 pentium for 40$ how did i do ?

nice job. how about a computer from this decade?

You're thinking of the tablet versions of the X200 and X201. But yeah, the X200 and X201 are mostly the same parts except the chassis and the motherboard.

You didn't have a use for it and you are bored. Sell it. Problem fucking solved.

Next time avoid slow meme obsolete junk.