just got pic-related for $60 from a guy off CL
thinkpad x120e
got 8gb of ram and 300gb hdd, more than i currently work with
just got pic-related for $60 from a guy off CL
thinkpad x120e
got 8gb of ram and 300gb hdd, more than i currently work with
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If it's the dual core model I guess it's ok. The single core model is surprisingly completely worthless.
yeah it's only a single-core, but i didn't feel like paying $200+ for an x230
i just wanted something near-disposable for the road with decent battery life. ; current capacity is about 3 hours, i'm told with a new one it will be closer to 5
good enough for basically a burner laptop
I just can't understand how a 1.6GHz processor can't manage to play YouTube videos or load certain websites when cell phones made during the same time had no problem.
well i mean, AyyyyyyyyyyMD has been nearly bankrupt until recently
:^)
If it can play porn it's good enough.
>new keyboard
it's trash
make sure to lick the keyboard for cummies ;-)
>was buying a t410 for $120 AUD
>the webcam had been removed
>get a $20 refund
>pay $100
>was going to tape it over anyway
i'm happy
$200+? You can get an x220 for $150 on eBay completely assembled and it will greatly outperform that piece of shit. Even a T60 probably would’ve done the job better. Congrats on your garbage, that’s what happens when you cheap out.
Pretty neat for the price.
Let me greentext because I feel like it.
>Three years ago
>bought a thinkpad x201 on ebay for $100
>$40 of shipping fees
>pretty clean but battery holds no capacity and keyboard is mushy AF
>Buys new battery, 30 bucks
>buys new keyboard, 40 bucks
>few months ago, lcd panel died. Ordered a new one. 70 bucks
>keyboard is dead. "stuck key" despite being clean and no spillage or whatever.
>give it a air spray clean, give it a shake, no result
>press with the force of a retarded ape 10 times on each key.
>POK POK POK POK !!!
>No result.
>At this point, I have spent too much in this laptop and it has a brand new display I didn't even get to use. I also changed to thermal paste because I had an old syringe from few years back so I gave it a refresh.
>find a keyboard for 20 bucks on amazon. bought it.
This is the last repair I give to this machine. Glorious 16:10 aspect ratio is awesome, but I want to fall for the /highDPI/ meme for D A N K font rendering on moon runes, even at the cost of 16:9 aspect ratio.
Next machine is going to be a XPS13 if the content adaptive brightness can be turned off on next gens, or another thinkpad x series with a 1080p display
Because you're not just decoding and rendering a video. You're also loading and executing literal megabytes of CSS and JS antifeatures. On browsers that have feature creeped past “browsing the web” many times over now.
You could try using a lightweight browser. You're removing all the features for which you have no use, but you're also switching to a JS engine that won't have years of tweaks to speed up aformentioned megabytes of shitty JS.
Just use YouTube-dl or something instead, I believe smplayer has a YouTube search plugin. It’s not the video, it’s the webpage itself that is garbage and bots down your performance. The video is extremely easy to play. My T420 can play 1080p60 40mbps video from my gopro with ease if I use hardware acceleration via MPC-HC or MPV.
>tfw just got an intel i5 laptop off Ebay for 140
You just got scammed. Single core AMD in 2018-1. If THIS is more than you currently worked with, I would hate to see what you used to work with.
Mine can do that, this is Youtube 1080p24 on a low voltage mobile Core 2 Duo. 1080p60 looks like a slideshow though.
C2D has no problem, this is an AMD processor.
I bought a refurbished thinkpad for my cousin for christmas. do you think he'll like it? he's kind of a pleb normie and he's not very computer savvy. should i just leave windows on it? since linux and plebs don't mix
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what's the point of 8GB RAM with that CPU? o.O
i guess it's fine, for the price.
I got a N450 atom laptop for $10, how did I do Sup Forums?
I'll probably use it as router, ap, squid server, dns server and nas.
>N450 atom laptop for 10 dollars
Now that is pretty good.
What model? He should, unless he’s an asshole who can’t appreciate a free laptop that’s high quality.
t430
Sup Forums is probably going to hate me because of its resolution
Nah who gives a fuck, it’s not yours and that’s still the typical resolution of laptops anyways (for some reason).
That’s a great laptop for him, I hope he appreciates it. It can’t play games but it’s definitely a workhorse.
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awww yeahhh I miss mine the x120e is so good mane
I know it *looks* like the *30 gen keyboard but unlike those it's surprisingly good.
I own a T430. Keyboard is shit compared to the previous gen but it's OK for a normalfag. Display is normalfag tier also. It's not as resistant as the previous gen but still good. Comes with USB3 which is nice. Replacing the HDD with a SSD it's a good idea, not only to gain speed but because 7mm HDDs are unreliable as shit. I have actually played games on it like Starcraft 2 and Napoleon Total War and it can handle them at medium settings. A fine laptop overall.
>amd e series
you dun fucked up
well the only way to know if it's a fast enough cpu/gpu is to play a 1920x1080 sfm porn webm from /gif/. That's the way I test my laptops at least.
This user is BASED
This!
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but mine's kawaiier and cheaper, that was the whole point even if it is trash
exactly what i thought when i saw ths specs
i like it for the limited terminal stuff i'm running on it, browsing isn't that terrible honestly
it does 1280x720 flawlessly, but 1920*1080 is too much for it and lags greatly. also audio stutters more than a loli even tho it's at 30-50% cpu util on youtube/etc. probably shit drivers.
you could pay $50 for an x200t like me
paid £120 for my x220 and it does everything i need. if it breaks beyond what is obvious (eg motherboard, screen) then i'll just buy a new one