Old 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™ >Other business laptops are also welcome in /tpg/ (Dell Latitude/Precision, HP EliteBook/ZBook).
Recommended IBM models: X60, X61, T60, T61, 860, Transnote, PC110
Recommended modern models: X220 - 12", 768p, cheap and light T420 - 14", 900p, widely available, socketed CPU, Ivy Bridge installable w/ Coreboot W520 - 15", 1080p, Desktop Replacement, 32GB RAM on quadcore models, USB 3.0 T440p, T540p, W540 - last ThinkPads to have replaceable CPUs, IPS displays available, chiclet P series - reminiscent to old build quality, top-of-the-line specs, better than most current mobile workstations, but very expensive
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 (most models), upgrade & maintain thanks to readily available service manuals for every model, spare parts easy & cheap to obtain >The best TrackPoint, great for those who type a lot or hate swiping their fingers all over a touchpad >Excellent GNU/Linux & *BSD support
answer me pls, need to know if I should wait or not
Jace Cox
x220 coming in mail to become travel laptop
Because I struggle to properly make decisions, what distro do I put on it?
Jackson Nelson
windows 10 ltsb
Christopher Carter
Windows 7
Connor Bailey
Solus
Camden Jackson
>READ THE BUYERS GUIDE FIRST Do not copy/paste like a fucking retard, there isn't a fucking buyer's guide anymore.
Levi Myers
Windows 7 x64 Ultimate edition
David Cook
Ubuntu
Ethan Gutierrez
Get some xubuntu or debian.
Justin Barnes
I second "Ubuntu" 17.10 is magnificent! Very modern! Honestly, I'm typing this on my X220, and Ubuntu runs on it like a charm. Because it's Ubuntu it's super polished, and because it's Linux it's super fast. I honestly enjoy my X220 more than my Macbook Pro. I basically just use my Macbook for video editing now. My Thinkpad is my bb. It's running Windows 10 right now, just because I've been on Linux for over a year and wanted to switch things up a bit. keep it fresh! Which is one of my favorite things about this computer, it's always hackable to do whatever you want with it.
Jacob Gonzalez
Cent find a buyers guide.
A good ThinkPad to install Windows 10 and the latest office? I need to get a laptop to use at the university and research. Any advice?
Angel Butler
Have an x220 that I'm currently using to learn on. When will it be necessary to upgrade to like a w520? I just found one with an upgraded quaddro 2000 gpu on it with 250 gb SD 320 gb HD for 220 bucks, should I just buy because of the price? Or should I wait until I'm ready? How will I know when I'm ready for a new laptop as well? As far as necessity not as in how do I know my current laptop is broken. Thanks in advance.
Brandon Brown
You sound like an absolute faggot.
Adam Cruz
the content of your post isn‘t the problem, but you sound like reddit i feel like this is bait but whatever
Julian Adams
Upgrade for what?
Wyatt Howard
>tfw father's work has over 200 T420s and X220s in storage that they're just getting rid of >tfw I can have all of them >for free
Liam Reed
one post was enough user
Brody Moore
Need a 1080p Libreboot-compatible comp, so probs a T500 or W500. Anyone know of a deal like that for a European?
Colton Green
This feels like copypasta
Elijah King
>Windows 10 Why. W7 is compatible with the latest Office. (Office 2010 is the best version tho)
If you want to study with it, buy a X or T series. I personally recommend X220.
Eli Thomas
You won't have the (you)s this time.
Justin Gray
that's a big keyboard.
Benjamin Perez
What should I look for when buying a battery for t410s? Right now I'm just searching with the model number plus battery on eBay.
Angel Russell
Purchased a t420 and refurbished it as a Christmas present for a family member, the wait until I can hand it over is painful.
Camden Edwards
Has anyone ever tried to Libreboot a T60 with an LCD panel that's untested and potentially unsupported?
Aaron Davis
How many of you here have successfully liberated a T60?
Connor Ross
Is an i7 T70 mobo for $700 worth it?
Thomas Harris
>give daughteru a T420 upgraded and refurbished with love from myself >eww daddy what the fuck is this?? I hate you! worst christmas ever! Wah
Matthew Phillips
So, unconventional issue: >x230t >intel 6205 wireless >linux >get frequent iwlwifi crashes, reloads >occasionally get a uCode unable to be loaded error.. -5 >have narrowed it down to potentially being physical shock (light drop from less than 1 inch) Anyone else had similar issues? Any ideas if this it's possible the wireless adapter itself is sensitive to shock? I am debating going atheros as fucking too many intel problems.
Julian Jones
It's a longshot but perhaps try physically reseating the adapter?
Christian White
Bad parenting, you should give her a fagbook pro.
Hunter Rogers
>Order ThinkPad listed as "pristine condition" >Usual small scuffs and wear >Order ThinkPad in "used with moderate wear" >Single mark on lid from asset sticker but not a single scuff anywhere else >Fan is completely dust free >Looks like it was asseted and then put back in its box
Payed £95 for the "pristine" one without a screen and £40 for the "used" one without a battery
Matthew Flores
What's the screen resolution of the T420? Mine's running at 1366x768 according to xrandr but I've noticed some inconsitencies from here, and for some reason I doubt so many people change the actualy display on their laptops that post here.
Evan Walker
On my x220's 6 cells battery, the capacity suddenly dropped to 39% from about 90%. How do I calibrate it back?
Brandon Turner
did you try 1600x900?
Benjamin Gray
Is x200 better than T60? How good? Same as x220?
Ian Brooks
Compare the specifications and find out for yourself.
Luis Hill
If you want Libreboot don't even bother waiting
David Reed
Not really
Chase Brooks
Depends I'd say yes though
Christian Harris
What's model is babby's first Thinkpad?
Also what are the trackpads like? Should I just get a mouse
Xavier Smith
Where did you bought them? I can't seem to find prices that low in western Europe.
Cooper Cruz
>What's model is babby's first Thinkpad? Incorrect question.
The question is, what are your needs?
Depending on that, you go to the X, T or W series.
Yeah just changed it to that, assumed arch would've automatically set it to the max available. Might be placebo but screen looks way nicer.
Colton Howard
I want to put a second hard drive into my T500.
What ultrabay do I want? I see some listings on ebay say "ultrabay slim"? Is that the same thing?
Christian Rodriguez
Prices have skyrocketed throughout western Europe unfortunately due to an increased demand. You will pay almost double for Thinkpads now in most cases.
Josiah Johnson
Thinkpads with 16:10 resolutions?
William Price
Oh, on the subject. I have some cash left over and since I'll be using this new thinkpad quite a lot between work and home, is an SSD worth it? I'd get a drive bay to replace the optical drive along the way, but right now i'd just replace the HDD wit an SSD if that would make a noticeable difference, so it would be great to hear from ssd users here.
Charles Rodriguez
Yes it will make a big difference in application loading times and how fast your operating system boots up. It's an important upgrade if you want things to be snappy.
The Lenovo specs say "max 8GB" but that's often outdated.
Also: There is a CPU upgrade for the T/W500 called "P9900". Is this also libreboot-compatible? I'm afraid of being unable to libreboot if I upgrade the CPU.
Asher Watson
Does CPU even has to do anything about your bootloader? I thought it's only up to motherboard.
Liam Sanders
im actually looking at the same thing right now.
>tfw socketed CPU
Adam Lopez
Yes. So does the ram. So does the video card, and screen.
Leo Adams
I could not let that deal pass. I was torn between that and >Lenovo ThinkPad T430S Core I5-3320M 2.6GHZ 4GB 16gb SSD I think I choose the better one. Just gotta get used to the THICC
Carson Morgan
im pretty sure S stood for slim. I have the x200s and it constantly overheats.
i think the i5 will be a good upgrade from the poor core2duo
Blake White
Is there any point in upgrading the i7-620M in a T410 to an i7-640M? Is there anything better that I can stick into that socket?
Josiah Thompson
You probably had a dirty fan/air vent or needed to replace the thermal paste.
Jaxon Rodriguez
Why would you need anything better?
William Martin
What are the 1080p thinkpad models? And which are good?
Benjamin Carter
15.6" models, t440p,t440s,x240
Luke Myers
just to satisfy my desire to fiddle around with the internal components. but in all seriousness, would the
Lucas Evans
please help
Oliver Sanders
It would be pointless unless you're performing seriously resource intensive tasks and you actually need more.
William Walker
I'm gonna go get my X41 from the postal office today. I hope it's as good as in the pictures. /blog
I had similar problem with X201s and it ended up being that the WiFi adapter pins were worn down. You could see tiny dots just worn through the contacts. Reseating the adapter a bit differently remedied the problem.
Your local classifieds site.
The prices for xx00-xx30 series on ebay have become ridiculous due to increased demand and dwindling supply. No new stock is created as these machines are way past their lease period.
Isn't there some i7 QM model for that generation to get four cores?
>Isn't there some i7 QM model for that generation to get four cores? Not for that socket, as far as I could tell.
>seriously resource intensive tasks I don't have to compile as much as Gentoo, but Slackware third-party package repositories can be very annoying due to library version mismatches and I often have to compile my own anyway. It's the most common task I can think of that maxes out CPU usage and can take a long time for large/complex things. There's probably other stuff though.
Jacob Green
If you're doing tasks like that regularly and maxing out your CPU then a little extra won't hurt any. You might as well go for it and kill two birds with one stone.
Colton Diaz
Debian, ubuntu, manjaro are my go to options. I recommend using xfce with them.
Jeremiah Flores
How is debian on a laptop? I'm getting either a x230 or a T430 soon and I'm looking for a distro to put on it
Joshua Martin
I'm looking for a light 14" with FHD.
Currently i'm using a X200, but it's getting real slow and hot, even though I changed thermal paste etc. running Wndows 7 on an ssd.
Can you recommend the T460 or T470? What else could I look into. 600-700€ would be okay.
Jack Gray
That will be the next project then. Thanks.
Michael Phillips
Day 03 of hackintoshing my T420, still not reaching pass the Apple boot logo.
Jeremiah Roberts
clean your cooler assembly(also your heat pipe might have vented), use a diluted rust remover, replace the fan every 5 years even if it seems fine.
if that sounds like too much effort you can ebay a new assembly.
things that case heat soaking: >software: you fucked up your gentoo build and don't have ANY power management features/fan speed being incorrectly set by shit like thinkfan >heat sink is covered in dust/scale >fan failure >warped spreader >you live in australia
As for replacing the machine, I have an X250, "its ok"
Nolan Smith
Both of those have very similar hardware, so it’s down to what has an acceptable UI and driver support. I run Mint Cinnamon on an X230, T420 and some failed abortion of a HP netbook with an atom processor. It’s pretty good for most of the regular activities, up to and including shitposting.
Jayden Cooper
macOS. If you want Linux, know that anything debian-based has wifi resume issues that can't be fixed.
Andrew Peterson
Thanks for fixing the pasta, based OP
Thomas Allen
Can you upgrade the screens on thinkpads to be 1080p?
Brandon Davis
I read somewhere that it's possible on the T430 and possibly T420.
on t420/30 (iirc) this could be done using a custom circuit board. If you have a t440 onwards this is done just changing the screen. Again, I might be wrong.
Jose Anderson
T410
Tyler King
no.
Levi King
Is 270$ a good deal for a t430? 4gb ram and a i53320m
Nicholas Robinson
>no dedicated graphics card what shitty store sells x220 as ""gaming laptop""?
Nathan Carter
we got this exact laptop at work and its working, i was just unable to install any os on it is it valuable?
Andrew Taylor
>t430 >270 burgerbucks >4gb ram overpriced as fuck
Kevin Lee
I don't live in the us tho
Thomas Barnes
Me neither, but if you can afford it, it should be good.
Adrian Reed
Anyone brought a Thinkpad off minifree?
Camden Miller
Wow I never thought a 12+ years old laptop could be in such a pristine condition. There's a ding on the cover but other than that it's like almost new or with minimal wear only. No white blobs on the display either!
The keyboard and feel of the laptop are superb! They really don't make them like they used to. I wish they made this exact laptop with modern processor and higher screen resolution. I'd be super happy if I could just use this as a keyboard/trackpoint device with some other computer.
While being only 1.5GHz Pentium M it's booting surprisingly fast into Peppermint Linux which was loaded on thething.
Adrian Ortiz
No. But I have been considering it, despite the price. It's a shame they've stopped selling the X60 models. They only do T400s and X200s now. I'm not sure if they ever sold T60s. I'd prefer a T60.
Brayden Mitchell
post watches on thinkpad
Ryan Roberts
4 u
Cooper Morris
Thinking of getting an Elitebook 840 G3 from 2016 (i5 6th gen because poor).
Will get it a 250GB SSD.
Should I install CentOS or Fedora to it? I use CentOS a lot at work, but it's a little outdated (stability) compared to Fedora (which I haven't used).