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>>106447990
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 welcome in /tpg/ (Dell Latitude/Precision, HP EliteBook/ZBook)

Why ThinkPad?
>Used machines are plentiful and cheap
>Excellent keyboards, tactile feel and quiet + the TrackPoint
>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 support

ThinkWiki - General info about ThinkPads/specs
https://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkWiki

Model 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.html
https://libreboot.org/docs/install/
https://canoeboot.org/docs/install/

Additional resources:
https://dankpads.com/tpg/
https://biosimage.booru.org
https://1vyra.in

Patches:
https://github.com/digmorepaka/thinkpad-firmware-patches
https://github.com/hamishcoleman/thinkpad-ec

Chat:
##ibmthinkpad on libera
#/tpg/ on rizon
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Industrial grade epoxy on my RAM & ROM.
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>T450 - T460: significantly less thick
Cute how this mistake from last year is still in the OP. Both T450-T460 and T460-T470 cut about 1 mm of thickness each. The bigger change was from T460-T470 with lighter weight, thinner keyboard, USB-C, DDR4, and the retarded wear-based discharge order.
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>P14s Gen 5 Intel
>riveted keyboard
>alunium case
Is it still a thinkpad /tpg/
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>>106531875
It is a reused T14p chassis from the chinese market.
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>>106531845
>DDR4
T460 had DDR4, and it was a big jump in CPU since it was the first generation of Skylake. But you're right that there wasn't much difference in thickness.
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anon who ordered the 175€ i7 T480 last thread here, thought I'd give an update
I received the laptop 30 minutes ago. specs are almost as advertised, with a single exception: it wasn't mentioned anywhere on the listing, but I received the model with the Nvidia GPU inside. doesn't matter to me as I'll disable it anyway, but that's extremely cheap for a dGPU model
keyboard is an original LiteOn backlit, the best I could get basically. screen bezel frame I'm a bit bothered about since I got the one with the IR sensor on it and without the slider to hide the camera. I'll have to see if my other T480's bezel fits but I think it's slightly damaged and has one or two clips missing I believe. was about to start swapping the parts with my i5 so I'll see
it came with only one battery (as advertised) but it's the internal one that's missing, kinda sucks since that's the one I don't a spare for. I'll order one later. external one didn't seem to charge when I quickly tested it but I have spared anyway
came with a single 16GB RAM stick (thought it'd be 2x8), no big deal though, that stick will go into the i5 and I probably have an identical one to pair with somewhere. SSD is NVMe, good. laptop is in good external shape, was very slightly dirty but nothing too bad. screen seems to be the stock panel and has a couple small white dots on it, no big deal since it'll be swapped for my A485's pristine display when its upgrade arrives. BIOS seems older so I'll update that
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Is there any way to tell if this X280 (https://www.ebay.com/itm/127360491356) is HD or FHD screen? The seller didn't include that info.
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>>106532104
the chinkpad...
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>>106532630
The photo with the screen shining on the keyboard shows TN-like discoloration and only HD screens were TN
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>>106532419
T460 for whatever reason still used DDR3L while X260 was DDR4 but in single channel so it performed like DDR3 in dual channel lol
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>>106532630
>$190 for 8/256
What the fuck
For this money I can get 16/512 with Full HD IPS diplay where I live. Don't go for X280 though, it features soldered RAM, 8GB was dead on arrival. If you need 12" then look for 16GB model. Preferably go for T480 or X270 if you don't mind dual core CPU. I use i5-7200U in my T470 as daily PC and it's pretty good.
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>>106533346
I'm looking for quad core (8th gen) in compact form factor, so both X270 (dual core) and T480 (too bulky) wouldn't work. All RAM is soldered these days so I don't really care about that. And I can't find a 16GB model that doesn't have a fingerprint reader (I know that sounds weird but I hate those).
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>>106532524
holy shit nigger get a blog or something
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Anyone with a Lunar Lake ThinkPad?
228V 258V 268V
U or H are not Lunar Lake.
How is it?
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>>106533663
>nooooooo, you can't talk about Thinkpads on the Thinkpad thread!!!!
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>>106532524
so how hot is that i7 on idle? I've heard older chinkpads with i7's were all overheating



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