/tpg/: ThinkPad General

Old Thread: If you're looking for purchase advice, state your 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

Used laptop guides by xsauc:
dankpads.com

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

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

EPP discount for new ThinkPads:
pastebin.com/JVwVGVTW

BIOS logo booru:
biosimage.booru.org/

Other urls found in this thread:

amazon.com/dp/B00OXWAFKQ/_encoding=UTF8?coliid=I30MNDW1T5CJIW&colid=EUVN52DZ0N3E&psc=0
twitter.com/NSFWRedditImage

>rads rorks riving re 200 raprops
>ROR REE

First for the greatest ThinkPad ever built

Disgusting.

>tfw you run your finger around the softrim trackpoint

this. fucking hell OP

tell that this user

Imagine being a grown adult with a job and still preferring another man's used goods to this

chiclet shills begone

Original IBM keyboards were chiclet. Your 'classic' keyboard is less tactile and cheaper

Why is the T440p shilled so much but T540p isn't? People are always jerking off about how you can put quadcore in it but without good gpu it's useless anyway and T540p solves this problem because it has express card slop for egpu. What I'm I not seeing?

The problem with these computers is that even if you could upgrade the CPU to the best model intended for the motherboard chipset, the GPU is and always will be mobile garbage.

>numpad

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First off, use proper English. The text should be:
>Why is the T440p shilled so much but the T540p isn't? People are always jerking off about how you can put a quadcore CPU in it but without a good GPU it's useless anyway and the T540p solves this problem by having an ExpressCard-slot for an eGPU. What am I not seeing?

First, the T440p comes with a 7th Generation Nvidia GPU but since it makes the battery life suffer it's not all that useful.
Second, if you can have a smaller PC with a good screen, good performance and you don't really need anything more you don't need a T540p. Especially since it's quite a bit bigger and therefor thicker and heavier. Also, the iGPU is enough for almost everything you'd do with such a laptop.
Third, if you really have to do heavy graphical work, you'd get a P series or a stationary workstation and not a laptop with a 4th Generation Intel CPU.

>but without good gpu it's useless anyway
go back to Sup Forums kid

is this the x1 carbon?

I don't think so. But then I have the yoga version so maybe they look more different then I thought.

x201i 13' laptop fixed it last night without a reinstall

I srewed up the MBR trying to remove a old windows 7 install.
don't even know why i bother with shitty old windows 7 installation.

going to install windows xp again on my HP NX7400 once my PCIMA to compact flash card with 8gb compact flash memory turns up.

who cares.

uggghhhh only retro games are worth it.
but mostly use it for work and at work don't need no games.

had stickers on my chinkpad but now that i have taken them off and gotten the glue off, still have the outlines of the stickers on the lid.
what can i do to clean that shit off?

new lid

>implying chiclet keyboards are tactile
fucking kek

Yep, hands down prettiest pad

objectively shit taste

x

Thanks for the non-shill pasta

I just got an x201 tablet, where can I find a large battery that won't explode or die in a few months

more like this

>of all the models of thinkpad, I bought an x130e, used.

how does that make everyone feel?

But Sup Forums told me thinkpad user were virgin fat neckbeard losers only buy cheap thinkpad and install gentoo.

fucking reddit
you have to go back

is that weed on the dresser?

eh, bad for you. could've gotten a proper laptop, but you bought a chromebook. what did you pay for it? don't tell me more than $50 max

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Except on the W series and some T models, which have dedicated GPUs.

What are the specs?

please, god, fuckinjg tell me you're not using the pcjr keyboard as an argument

How bad did i fuck up

Actually while i'm at it, Anybody able to point me in the right direction for resetting the bios? i'm thinking short the eeprom but i'm not too sure.

I may or may not have dropped acid, installed linux on an ssd and put a lock on it. I can't remember anything other than the password being something about niggers and trees...


and yeah i knew what i was getting when I got it. needed a machine to carry with me and hold me over til christmas and only had 100 to spend, paid

Question: Dell Latitude with 8th gen Intel processor (TBA Summer 2018) or Thinkpad?

I was originally leaning towards the Latitude due to its great performance:cost ratio. I've heard little about the Thinkpad.

For a business intelligence analyst (use cases involve intense spreadsheet processing), which should I go for?

AMD AMD E-450 cpu at 1.6ghz
Radeon HD 6320 igpu
4 gigs of ddr3
it came with a 320gb mechanical drive but i put my old pny 128gb ssd in it

How much did you pay for that?

They are wrong. They are actually successful businesspeople with lots of bitches on their dick. NNNNNNWOORRRRRRDDDD....

i'd have to go and look but i wanna say 40-something.

alright, not too bad. could've gotten an X200 (personal favorite) but if you're happy with it, it's alright, isn't it?
fucking tattoos I swear

For those specs, seems a good purchase :)

Any idea what could be causing this display problem on my x220?
Is the display just fucked?

It started randomly yesterday and I have no idea what's causing the issue.

prolly
check display connector cable and replace it
if that's not enough, get a new display alltogether

I guess it's alright. Personally, I hate the damn thing. Later i'm gonna attempt to short the chip, but i'll have to see if i can even do it while high, with it being new years and all.

turn off the visualizer

Just got pic related, best ThinkPad I've used so far

fucking normies

Windows 7
Some riced distro
Windows 7
Xfce
Fullscreen

WOW It's almost as if people can get laid no matter what OS they use

I am.

not at all, those are pretty great

Inferior in every way to the X230.

Locally it's not considerably cheaper either.

50USD isn't too bad for one though.

Because the T540p is a size up, whereas the T440p is lighter than a T420.

Also, I didn't buy a quad for gaming, I bought it so I can fuck around with video rendering without having to break out the desktop.

Thoughts on the X200 for 95 burgers?
I already have T420 and X230

$70 max

>virgin Sup Forums argues about this for years
>Chad installs whatever looks good at the time and gets on with his life.

Get off my board normie.

>normie

Sorry, it appears you have a run-on sentence. Allow me to correct you.
>Why is the T440p shilled so much but the T540p isn't? People are always jerking off about how you can put a quadcore CPU in it but without a good GPU it's useless. The T540p solves this problem by having an ExpressCard-slot for an eGPU. What am I not seeing?

is t440s recommended? found one for 340 euro with ips screen 1600x900p 14 inch i5 4200u
is this aight or overpriced?

Well, I am very sorry for my stupidity and for that I have made such a mistake. I am very grateful for your correction and help.

>900p IPS display
what

also no, ulv shit belongs in the trash

>gf asked for a macbook for christmas
>got her a thinkpad
>opens it
>starts crying
>hits me
>runs to her car
>check normiebook later
>publicly accuses me of rape and physical abuse

>not shooting her like a true american and then masturbating to hentai because 3dpd a shit

>gf asked for a macbook for christmas
>got her a thinkpad
>opens it
>starts crying
>hits me
>runs to her car
check normiebook later
>publicly accuses me of rape and physical abuse
You know how I know this is fake?

how

Does an x61 tablet need anything special to support wwan, or just the second minipci slot? Also, are there any UK phone companies that I can use a sim from in it?

No way

a wwan card and the antennas, nothing more

1. nobody here has a girlfriend (one exception though: tablet user and his gf)
2. there was a similar imaginary story with an user's daughter in a different /tpg/ thread where his daughter flipped her shit because she wanted a mac but got a ThinkPad, just like in your story
3. you know fake accusations in themselves are a crime and punishable by jail time?

this guy knows what's up

How many antennae can you have in it, I have two but they're connected to the WLAN.

that's some cute traps you got here

2, two for the wlan card and two for the wwan card.

More recent laptops like the t410 onwards have all the four antennae already, the X61t doesn't and you need to install them.

Give me pics of tablet user!

price to perfomance is not grade

i fucking want chinks to make a 701c motherboard replacement. I have the 701c and it would be fucking cool to actually have modern shit in it.

Not going to lie looks aesthetic. But I reverse imaged this and know you posted it on roddit.

Stop misusing that word you fucking faggot

i'll keep my 6 hours of battery life under decent load then user. I never wanted you to have this anyway

>16:9
>soldered CPU
>last gen parts-bin GPU
>no mag-alloy frame
nice $2000 purchase goy

so?

what is the last thinkpads have no ime or bios disabled ime? T60?

I got a gift. I like it so far.

So I have a Lenovo T420s (like pic related) that seems to have a graphics card issue (it pixelcrashes somewhat often at random) -- and this is one of those models where every component is fused together on the mobo.

Speccy says it's running on a 41732AU motherboard.
Will this work with it?
amazon.com/dp/B00OXWAFKQ/_encoding=UTF8?coliid=I30MNDW1T5CJIW&colid=EUVN52DZ0N3E&psc=0

how bad is it to leave the battery in the thinkpad constantly while charging using etc?

i basically use my laptop all day and when i sleep i leave my laptop plugged in.

is this damaging the battery? how bad is it for the battery?

BRAAAAAPPT

Looking to get a 2570p for work (mostly coding and VMs/containers.) Is that viable or should I just get another X2x0/T2x0 instead?

join the winners and get an x1 :3

ordered an i7 t430, should i install win 7 pro, 10 ltsb, or loonix with a windows vm?
using it pretty much for shitposting and minecraft and a handful of pre-2010 games

Oh hey you're back

What's the best Thinkpad with a tablet mode? I personally like the ability for it to be used as a tablet. I was thinking of getting an X230 or an X220t, thoughts, anons?

No shit, user.

>imagine being this autistic
Good one

>one exception:tablet user and his gf
Errr, she's my sister

You could get a quad core and raid on the 2570p for a really compact desktop replacement
But the X230 is a much light package