>>103247827Don'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 welcome in /tpg/ (Dell Latitude/Precision, HP EliteBook/ZBook)Why ThinkPad?>Used machines are plentiful and cheap>Excellent keyboards, tactile feel and quiet>Great durability: magnesium roll cage 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>Excellent Linux & *BSD supportThinkWiki - General info about ThinkPads/specshttps://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkWikiModel generations:>Classic IBM: T40, T41, T42>IBM/Lenovo Transition: T43, T60, T61 (T42 - T43: significant difference in specs)>"Classic" Lenovo: T400, T410, T420 (T61 - T400: 4:3 to 16:10)>Transition to old modern: T430, T440, T450 (T420 - T430: membrane to chiclet)>Old modern: T460, T470, T480 (T450 - T460: significantly less thick)>New modern: T490, T14g1, T14g2 (T480 - T490: design change)>New new modern: T14g3, T14g4, ... (T14g2 - T14g3: second design change)BIOS replacement:https://coreboot.org/downloads.htmlhttps://libreboot.org/docs/hardware/https://canoeboot.org/docs/hardware/Additional resources:https://dankpads.com/tpg/https://biosimage.booru.orghttps://1vyra.inPatches:https://github.com/digmorepaka/thinkpad-firmware-patcheshttps://github.com/hamishcoleman/thinkpad-ecChat:##ibmthinkpad on libera#/tpg/ on rizon
/g/ I picked up a Precision 7560 yesterday and I fucking love it>Xeon 11855-W 6-core>128gb RAM>1TB NVME>NVIDIA A4000 Quadro 8gbI'm fairly sure I can do a bootable NVME raid on this thing on a fucking laptop, the last machine I had that could do that was a Threadripper desktop. What a hell of an upgrade over a 2960XM, which will be my ECU tuning laptop now for my track car.Has a new battery too. It does have W10 but I have debated dual booting Linux on it too at some point.
>>103289943Whats the shittiest cheapest thinkpad that will let me run latest gzdoom with mods with 10+ hrs battery life?
EPOXY ON MY RAM & ROM.
>>103290584>with 10+ hrs battery lifeforget it
>>103292917fucking love usb C charger though
I want to buy a Thinkpad T14 because the Black Friday deal looks pretty good. You can get an AMD 32GB for under $1,400. However, my M1 MBP 16GB probably is good enough for now. It just doesn’t have the comfy factor anymore, and Thinkpads have a mysterious charm to them. Maybe I’ll wait for the M4 Air.
>>103292917slim tip / barrel charging port + 1 hdmi + 1 display/mini display +1 usb-c + 1 SD card reader + 3 usb AI don't need anything elseFuck usb c only charging port
Black Friday wise, since we don't have a proper laptop thread - would it be a stupid idea to buy a heavily discounted laptop with the inferior screen option and then buy the superior panel a few months from now and replace it?I'm thinking the price gap to get a non-discounted, superior panel model will be WAY more than the cost of the panel I've already priced out and it's kind of a no-brainer.
>>103291118the 15 minute waits stops me from posting this every thread, keep it allive boss
>>103294318Buy a pass
Will this be good enough for years?for a workstation and coding.ThinkPad P16s Gen 2 | AMD Ryzen™ 7 PRO 7840U | 64 GB LPDDR5X - 6 400MHz | 1 TB SSD M.2 2280 PCIe Gen4 Performance TLC Opal
Is it worth it selling my 2570p to get x1 tablet gen1?
>4800 mhz RAM has better timings than 5600 mhz RAM>system will only support 4800 mhz and will downclock the 5600 mhz RAMIs it better to buy the 4800 for the better timings or is this meaningless autist shit?
>>103294558If your use case doesn't fully saturate the memory bandwidth, then you're better off with lower latency.Gaymen = low latency Content creation, editing, etc = higher bandwidth (generally)
Are the thinkpads of recent years any good? My grandma's in the market for a decent laptop.
>>103298176hp 250 G9
